Russell Scott Valentino


Russell Scott Valentino is an American author, literary scholar, translator, and editor. Currently, he is a professor of Slavic and comparative literature, and serves as Associate Dean for International Affairs, at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Life and career

Russell Scott Valentino was born and raised in central California. He attended California State University, Fresno, majoring in English and Russian, then went to graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, with a focus on the Russian nineteenth century. He has published seven book-length literary translations, two scholarly monographs, three co-edited collections of essays, and numerous articles and essays. He served as Editor-in-Chief at the Iowa Review from 2009 to 2013, as President of the American Literary Translators Association from 2013 to 2016, and as chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University from 2013 to 2016.

Works

Scholarly Monographs

Vicissitudes of Genre in the Russian Novel explores genre mixing in works by Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, and Maksim Gorky.
The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel examines the historical construction of virtue and its relation to the rapidly shifting economic context in modern Russia.

Translations

Discoveries: New Writing from the Iowa Review, edited with Erica Mena
The Man Between: Michael Henry Heim & A Life in Translation, edited with Esther Allen and Sean Cotter
Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry Special Issue on Rhetoric and Translation, with Jacoby Emery, Sibelan Forrestor, and Tomislav Kuzmanović

Awards and Fellowships

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Award
National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Award
Long-list Nominee for the International Dublin Literary Award
Howard Foundation Award for Literary Translation
National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Award
National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Award
PEN/Heim Translation Award