Cinema & Comparative Literature
Russell Scott Valentino |
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| Associate Professor of Russian; Cinema and Comparative Literature | ||
| Ph.D. UCLA | ||
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| Background: | ||
Russell Scott Valentino is an associate professor of Russian and Comparative Literature and Interim Executive Director of the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (Poroi). He is the author of the 2001 monograph Vicissitudes of Genre in the Russian Nineteenth-Century Novel, co-translator and editor of Carlo Michelstaedter’s 1910 treatise Persuasion and Rhetoric, translator of two books of experimental essays by Predrag Matvejevic (Between Exile and Asylum: An Eastern Epistolary and The Other Venice), co-translator of Igor Stiks’s Castle in Romagna, and translator of Fulvio Tomizza Materada and Sabit Madaliev’s Silence of the Sufi. His essays, articles, and translations have appeared in journals such as Two Lines, Russian Review, 91st Meridian, eXchanges, Slavic Review, The Iowa Review, Circumference, POROI, and Modern Fiction Studies. He is also the founder and director of the non-profit independent literary press Autumn Hill Books, which publishes primarily contemporary literature in English translation. |
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| Research Areas: | ||
| 19th-20th century Russian literature; literary translation; contemporary Trieste, Istria, Croatia; virtue theory; commerce & virtue; republicanism; modernity |
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