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Lawrence Venuti

lvenuti@temple.edu

Lawrence Venuti, Professor of English, works in early modern literature, British, American, and foreign poetic traditions, translation theory and history, and literary translation. He is the author of Our Halcyon Dayes: English Prerevolutionary Texts and Postmodern Culture (1989), The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation (1995), and The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference (1998). He is the editor of the anthology of essays, Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology (1992), and of The Translation Studies Reader (2^nd ed. 2004), a survey of translation theory from antiquity to the present.

He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Translation Studies (1998) and the Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (2000). Recent articles and reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Translation and Literature, and Yale Journal of Criticism. He is a member of the editorial boards of Reformation: The Journal of the Tyndale Society, The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication, and Translation Studies. In 1998, he edited a special issue of The Translator devoted to translation and minority.

His translations from the Italian include Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati (1983), I.U. Tarchetti’s Fantastic Tales(1992), Juan Rodolfo Wilcock’s collection of real and imaginary biographies, The Temple of Iconoclasts (2000), Antonia Pozzi’s Breath: Poems and Letters (2002), the anthology Italy: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (2003), Melissa P.’s fictionalized memoir, 100 Strokes of the Brush before Bed (2004), and Massimo Carlotto's crime novel Death's Dark Abyss (2006). His translation projects have won awards and grants from the PEN American Center (1980), the Italian government (1983), the National Endowment for the Arts (1983, 1999), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1989). In 1999, he held a Fulbright Senior Lectureship in translation studies at the Universitat de Vic (Spain). In 2007, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.