Russell Scott Valentino (born 1962) is an American author, literary scholar, translator, and editor. He is a professor of Slavic and comparative literature, and serves as chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures 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,[1] with a focus on the Russian nineteenth century. He has published eight book-length literary translations (from Italian, Russian, and Croatian), 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[2] at Indiana University from 2013 to 2016.
The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel (2014)[4] examines the historical construction of virtue and its relation to the rapidly shifting economic context in modern Russia.
^Tomizza, Fulvio (2000). Materada : Fulvio Tomizza ; translated from the Italian and with a foreword by Russell Scott Valentino. Valentino, Russell Scott, 1962-. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. ISBN9780810117594. OCLC42717769.
