David Goldfarb

David A. Goldfarb is an independent scholar of Polish literature and literary theory, a literary translator from Polish to English, and a liaison for Polish authors to US publishers. He is currently working on a video series in collaboration with The Polish Cultural Institute New York for a broad English-speaking audience entitled, "Encounters with Polish Literature."

During 2017-18 he translated articles and interviews from “Wysokie Obcasy,” the weekly women’s supplement to Poland’s leading daily paper, “Gazeta Wyborcza,” to appear as features on the former Newsmavens.com, an English-language European women’s news portal published by Agora, S.A. in conjunction with Google’s Digital News Initiative. From mid-2010 to the end of 2013, he was in charge of Literature and Humanities Programming at the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Prior to that he was an Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University.

David Goldfarb holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  He has published articles on Bruno Schulz, Zbigniew Herbert, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Mikhail Lermontov and narratology, and East European cinema in _East European Politics and Societies_, _Indiana Slavic Studies_, _Philosophy and Literature_, _Prooftexts_, _The Polish Review_, _Slavic and East European Performance_, and book chapters on Jozef Wittlin, Witold Gombrowicz, and Nikolai Gogol and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.  He has written the introduction and notes for Tolstoy's _"The Death of Ivan Ilych" and Other Stories_ and Turgenev's _Fathers and Sons_ for the Barnes and Noble Classics series, and for the Penguin Classics edition of the _The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories_ by Bruno Schulz.  He is working actively on a book about Polish-Jewish writer and artist, Bruno Schulz.  He has taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, the Freie Universität Berlin, NYU, Hunter College and Queens College (CUNY).

He currently lives in Honolulu, Hawai'i.