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.

Following Glad's death in 2015, writer Vladimir Voinovich said in a blog post that "Он был известен как очень хороший синхронный переводчик", 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. 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