Russell Scott Valentino

Who is Russell Scott Valentino?

Russell Scott Valentino is a literary scholar, translator, and editor. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993. He has taught Slavic and comparative literature at the University of Iowa since 1994. Since approximately 2003, he has been a member of the University of Iowa's [Translation Workshop], and, since 2009, Editor of The Iowa Review.

He is the author of the monograph Vicissitudes of Genre in the Russian Novel, which explores genre mixing in works by Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, and Maksim Gorky. He is also the translator of book-length translations from Italian, Russian, and Croatian works of the 20th and 21st centuries. His essays and short translations of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in such venues as The Iowa Review, Two Lines, Circumference, Asia, [91st Meridian], [Poroi], and Slavic Review.

Valentino's work has been supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of State, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Howard Foundation. He has twice been awarded Fulbright Research grants to Croatia, and his translations from the Italian and Croatian have been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Book of the Year Awards held by Foreword Magazine.