John Glad

John Glad (December 31, 1941 – December 4, 2015)^[1][2] was an American academic who specialized in the literature and politics of exile, especially Russian literature. He also wrote about, and advocated for, eugenics.^[1]

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.^[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 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.^[5]

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

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.^{[citation needed]} 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),^[8] and a Guggenheim Grant recipient (1981).^[9] He had written for The Jewish Press, Mankind Quarterly^[10] and was interviewed for white nationalist publication The Occidental Quarterly.^[11] 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.^[12]

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.^[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 by Seymour Itzkoff. Schuylkill Haven, PA: Hermitage Publishers.
  • translated into Russian as Budushchai︠a︡ ėvoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii︠a︡ cheloveka : evgenika XXI veka ^[13]
  • Translated into Urdu as Mustaqbil 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 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

• Generations of Winter, by Vasily Aksenov
• The Winter's Hero, by Vasily Aksenov New York : Random House, c1996 ISBN 978-0-679-43274-6
• Kolyma Tales, by Varlam Shalamov
• Poems, by Nikolai Klyuev
• Graphite, by Varlam Shalamov

• Seymour Itzkoff

• The John Glad Interviews - Conversations with Russian Writers