Lawrence Venuti

Lawrence Venuti is a leading American translation theorist, translation historian, and a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. He is a member of the editorial and advisory boards of several journals, including Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication, and Translation Studies. He has edited special journal issues devoted to such topics as translation and minority (The Translator in 1998) and poetry and translation (Translation Studies in 2011). His work has appeared in numerous periodicals in print and online, including Asymptote, boundary 2, Critical Inquiry, The Guardian, Journal of Visual Culture, Times Literary Supplement, and World Literature Today. He traced the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day in The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation , first published in 1995 and then revised in 2008.

Venuti's translation projects have won awards from the PEN American Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1999, he held a Fulbright Senior Lectureship in translation studies at the Universitat de Vic (Spain). In 2008, his translation of Catalan writer Ernest Farrés’s book of poems, Edward Hopper, received the Robert Fagles Translation Prize. Venuti is professor emeritus of English at Temple University, where he taught for forty years from 1980 to 2020. He has also been a visiting professor at such institutions as University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Columbia University, Università degli Studi di Trento, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Barnard College, and Queen's University Belfast.

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