John Glad

John Glad (December 31, 1941 – December 4, 2015) was an American academic who specialized in the literature and politics of exile, especially Russian literature. He also wrote about, and advocated for, eugenics.
Biography
John Glad was born in Gary, Indiana in a family of immigrants from Croatia. His surname in Croatian means "hunger". "I am Ivan Hunger", he used to tell his Russian colleagues.
At age of 17 he began studying Russian and spoke it fluently, which undoubtedly contributed to his marriage to Larisa, nee Romanova, whom he brought from Saratov. He was known as a very good interpreter, and as such he was invited to interpret speeches of high-ranking people from Russia, including Mikhail Gorbachev.
Glad received his MA from Indiana University in 1964 for his thesis "Constance Garnett and David Magarshack as translators of Crime and punishment.", and his Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1970 for his thesis "Russian Soviet science fiction and related critical activity".
Academic work
Glad was a professor of Russian studies at the University of Maryland, and had previously taught at Rutgers University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Iowa. He was also the Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C. (1982–1983), and a Guggenheim Grant recipient (1981). He had written for The Jewish Press, Mankind Quarterly and was interviewed for white nationalist publication The Occidental Quarterly. He was the translator from the Russian of The 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 by Ilya Erenburg, and Vasily Grossman.
History of eugenics
Glad wrote two books on the subject of eugenics. Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century advanced humanistic arguments in favour of universal eugenics and has been translated into twelve languages. His second book on the subject, Jewish Eugenics (2011) traced the interactions between Jewish thinkers and activists and eugenics.
Publications
Books
Glad, John. 2006. Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century; preface by Seymour Itzkoff. Schuylkill Haven, PA: Hermitage Publishers.
translated into Russian as Budushchai︠a︡ ėvoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii︠a︡ cheloveka : evgenika XXI veka
Translated into Urdu as Mustaqbil kā insānī irtiqāʼ : ikkīsvīn̲ ṣadī men̲ ʻilm-i iṣlāḥ-i nauʻ-i insānī,
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.
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 1982 Extrapolations 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
Russian literature translations
Generations of Winter, by Vasily Aksenov
The Winter's Hero, by Vasily Aksenov New York : Random House, c1996
Kolyma Tales, by Varlam Shalamov
Poems, by Nikolai Klyuev
Graphite, by Varlam Shalamov
References
External links
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