carmen bugan
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. Balliol College, Oxford
Humanities 1095
carmen.bugan@stonybrook.edu
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- Biography
biography
Carmen Bugan, George Orwell Prize Fellow, is the author of five poetry collections, among which Lilies from America: New and Selected Poems (a PBS Special Commendation). Her memoir, Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and her monograph on Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile has received wide recognition. Her book, Poetry and the Language of Oppression: Essays on Politics and Poetics(Oxford University Press, 2021), was named "an essential book for writers" by Poets & Writers; her new book of poems, Time Being, was praised by the Irish Times poetry editor for its "disciplined precision". Bugan was a Creative Arts Fellow in Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford University, a Hawthornden Fellow, the Helen DeRoy Professor in Honors at the University of Michigan, and has also taught at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She has a doctorate in English literature from Balliol College, Oxford. Dr Bugan is on the faculty at the Gotham Writers' Workshop in Manhattan, The Poetry School in London, the Oxford Writing Mentors, serves on the Advisory Board of the Geneva Writers' Group, and teaches creative writing worldwide.
- Publications
Crossing the Carpathians, Carcanet Press/Oxford Poets, 2004
Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile, Routledge/MHRA, 2020, 2013
Burying the Typewriter . Gradywolf Press. 2012
The House of Straw, Shearsman, 2014
Sulla Soglia Della Dimenticanza, Edizioni Kolibris, 2015
Releasing the Porcelain Birds, Shearsman, 2017Lilies from America: Selected Poems, Shearsman, 2019
Poetry and the Language of Oppression: Essays on Politics and Poetics, Oxford University Press, 2021
Time Being, Shearsman, 2022
READ CARMEN'S WORK
Carmen Bugan on The Poetry Foundation
Carmen Bugan's poems in Literary Matters
Carmen Bugan in The Irish Times
Carmen Bugan's work as reviewer of contemporary literature in Harvard Review
- Documentaries and Podcasts
Carmen Bugan on The World of Ideas, NPR
Carmen Bugan on the BBC World Service series The Documentary
Carmen Bugan on the Cold War Conversations Podcast
Carmen Bugan, The Power of Words, on the Oxford Comment Podcast
A Conversation with Carmen Bugan, TLR Hub Podcast
Poetry, Translation and Oppression: Carmen Bugan and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Trinity College
- Reviews
Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police by Carmen Bugan – review
‘Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir’ by Carmen Bugan
Becoming Story: The State of the Memoir
Small Gardens: Lilies from America: New and Selected Poems 2004-2019 by Carmen Bugan
At War with Ceausescu Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police
- Prizes and Awards
Orwell Prize Fellow, (lifetime), Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, UK, 2017
Judge, Fish Publishing International, Short Memoir Prize, 2015
Creative Arts Fellow in Literature, Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK, 2005-2009
Lifetime Honorary Member of the Common Room at Wolfson College, in recognition for contributions to the cultural and academic life of the College, 2008
Arts Council England, large individual grant, 2005
Hawthornden Residential Fellow, Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, 2005
Gertrude Hartley Prize in Poetry, Balliol College, Oxford, 2004
The Overseas Research Grant (ORS), Oxford University. Awarded in national competition in England: 2000-2003
The Oxford Overseas Bursary, Oxford University, 2000-2003
The Meyerstein and Maxwell Grants, research grants, English Faculty, Oxford University, 2001, 2002
The Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar Award (PEO), USA. Awarded in national competition in the United States: 2001-2002
Hopwood Undergraduate Poetry Award; Cowden Memorial Fellowship in Poetry, University of Michigan, 1994, 1995