Lawrence Venuti

Lawrence Venuti is, most recently, the author of Translation Changes Everything: Theory and Practice (Routledge) and the translator of Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper: Poems (Graywolf), which won the Robert Fagles Translation Prize. He guest-edited the September 2009 cover feature of WLT devoted to Catalan literature. Click here to read a review of Translation Changes Everything.

Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic by Lawrence Venuti

Autumn 2019
Lawrence Venuti

Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press. 2019. 216 pages. Lawrence Venuti is the lightning rod of translation studies. Among his most enduring contributions to the field is his claim that publishers “d...
Translation Changes Everything: Theory and Practice by Lawrence Venuti

January 2014
Lawrence Venuti

New York. Routledge. 2013. ISBN 9780415696296 Translation Changes Everything contains fourteen essays by Lawrence Venuti, professor of English at Temple University, one of the most influentia...
Eduard Màrquez’s Zugzwang: Cosmpolitanism, Minority, Translation

January 2014
Lawrence Venuti

Written in the wake of the Barcelona Olympics, Eduard Màrquez’s Zugzwang reflects the tensions of a culture straining against its minor status with aspirations toward a cosmopolitan outlo...