John Glad (December 31, 1941 – December 4, 2015)^[1][2] was an American academic who specialized in the literature and politics of exile, especiallyRussianliterature. He also wrote about, and advocated for,eugenics.^{[1][citation not found]}

John Glad was born in Gary, Indiana in a family of immigrants fromCroatia. His surname in Croatian means "hunger". "I am Ivan Hunger", he used to tell his Russian colleagues.^[3]

At age of 17 he began studying Russian^[4] and spoke it fluently, which undoubtedly contributed to his marriage to Larisa, nee Romanova, whom he brought fromSaratov^{[citation needed]}.

Following Glad's death in 2015, writerVladimir Voinovich said in a blog post that "Он был известен как очень хороший синхронный переводчик"transl. He was known as a very good simultaneous translator, and as such he was invited to interpret speeches of high-ranking people from Russia, includingMikhail Gorbachev.^[5]

Glad received his MA fromIndiana University in 1964 for his thesis "Constance Garnett and David Magarshack as translators of Crime and punishment.",^[6] and his Ph.D. degree fromNew York University in 1970 for his thesis "Russian Soviet science fiction and related critical activity".^[7]

Glad was a professor of Russian studies at theUniversity of Maryland, and had previously taught atRutgers University, theUniversity of Chicago, and theUniversity of Iowa.^{[citation needed]} He was also the Director of theKennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in theWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C. (1982–1983),^[8] and aGuggenheim Grant recipient (1981).^[9] He had written forThe Jewish Press,Mankind Quarterly^[10] and was interviewed for white nationalist publicationThe Occidental Quarterly.^[11] He was the translator from the Russian ofThe Black Book: The Ruthless Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout the Temporarily-Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the Death Camps of Poland During the War of 1941–1945, edited byIlya Erenburg andVasily Grossman.^[12]

Glad wrote two books on the subject ofeugenics.Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century advanced humanistic arguments in favour of universal eugenics and has been translated into twelve languages.^[4] His second book on the subject,Jewish Eugenics (2011), traced the interactions between Jewish thinkers and activists, and eugenics.

• Glad, John. 2006.Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century; preface bySeymour Itzkoff. Schuylkill Haven, PA:Hermitage Publishers.
  • translated into Russian asBudushchai︠a︡ ėvoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii︠a︡ cheloveka : evgenika XXI veka^[13]
  • Translated into Urdu asMustaqbil kā insānī irtiqāʼ : ikkīsvīn̲ ṣadī men̲ ʻilm-i iṣlāḥ-i nauʻ-i insānī,^[14]
• Glad, John. 2011.Jewish Eugenics. Wooden Shore L.L.C., Washington, D.C.
• Glad, John. 1999.Russia Abroad: Writers, History, Politics. Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage & Birchbark Press.
  • • review, A. Brintlinger,Russian Review 59, Part 3 (2000): 453
    • review, V. Terras,Slavic Review 62, Part 2 (2003): 423
    • review, L. Dienes,Slavic and East European Journal 44, Part 4 (2000): 672-674
    • review, W Coudenys,Russian History 27(2): (2000): 247-249
    • review, A Rogachevskii,The Slavonic and East European Review, Apr., 2001, vol. 79, no. 2, p. 357-360
• Glad, John, and Daniel Weissbort. 1992. Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
• Glad, John. 1993.Conversations in Exile: Russian Writers Abroad. Durham: Duke University Press.^[15]
  • • review,Slavonic and East European Review, Oct., 1994, vol. 72, no. 4, p. 723-724.
    • review, Modern Language Review, Jan., 1995, vol. 90, no. 1, p. 271
    • review, Slavic and East European Journal, Winter, 2000, vol. 44, no. 4, p. 672-675
• Glad, John. 1990.Literature in Exile. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • review,SubStance, 1992, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 137-142
  • review, Slavonic and East European Review, Jul., 1991, vol. 69, no. 3, p. 539
• Glad, John 1982Extrapolations from dystopia : a critical study of Soviet science fiction Kingston Press, 1982
  • • review,Slavic Review, Spring, 1983, vol. 42, no. 1, p. 157-158
• Glad, John, and Daniel Weissbort. 1978.Russian Poetry, the Modern Period. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
  • • review, Slavic and East European Journal, Autumn, 1979, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 407-408
    • review,Modern Language Journal, Nov., 1979, vol. 63, no. 7, p. 388-389

• Generations of Winter, byVasily Aksenov
• The Winter's Hero, by Vasily Aksenov New York : Random House, c1996ISBN 978-0-679-43274-6
• Kolyma Tales, byVarlam Shalamov
• Poems, byNikolai Klyuev
• Graphite, by Varlam Shalamov

• Seymour Itzkoff

• The John Glad Interviews - Conversations with Russian Writers

• Russian–English translators
• American eugenicists
• University of Maryland, College Park faculty
• Rutgers University alumni
• 2015 deaths
• 1941 births
• 20th-century American translators

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