Val Vinokur
Associate Professor, Literary Studies; Program Director, Jewish Culture
Email
vinokurv@newschool.edu
Office Location
B - 65 West 11th Street
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Director of Jewish Culture (Minor)
VAL VINOKUR has been published in such venues as Common Knowledge, The Boston Review, McSweeney's, Tablet,听LitHub,听The Russian Review, Zeek, The Massachusetts Review, Journal of Religion and Society, The Literary Review, and New American Writing. His book, The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas, was published by Northwestern University Press and was a finalist for the 2009 AATSEEL Award for Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of his and Rose-Myriam R茅jouis' translation of Marie Vieux-Chauvet's trilogy Amour, Colere et Folie -- a lost classic of Haitian literature -- for Random House Modern Library (2009). Rejouis and Vinokur have also translated two novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, Solibo Magnificent and Texaco (Pantheon Books, 1997). 听was published in 2017 by Northwestern University Press. He is the founding editor of and is the author of 听
Degrees Held
PhD, Princeton University (Comparative Literature)
BA, Amherst College (summa cum laude in English/Russian, magna cum laude in Political Science)
Recent Publications
鈥 听听(Poets & Traitors Press, 2018)
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鈥 听Verse translations in Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky, ed. Michael Almereyda (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008). .
鈥 听"Levinas Underground: Dostoyevsky, "De L'evasion," and the Devil,鈥 Levinas Studies vol 5 (2010)
鈥 听听Zeek (2008)
鈥 听听The Boston Review (2007)
鈥 听",鈥 The Boston Review Feb-March 2005.
鈥 听"Morality and Orality in Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry," The Massachusetts Review Winter 2005.
鈥 听"On the Brink of Tears and Laughter: The Uses of Joy and Suffering in Levinas鈥檚 Thought,鈥 () The Journal of Religion and Society 6, 2004.
鈥 听"Levinas鈥檚 Dostoevsky," Common Knowledge, Spring 2003.
鈥 听"Talking Fiction:听What is Russian Skaz?" 惭肠厂飞别别苍别测鈥檚, Fall 2002.
鈥 听"The End of Consciousness and the Ends of Consciousness:听 A Reading of Dostoevsky鈥檚 The Idiot and Demons after Levinas," The Russian Review, January, 2000.
Performances and Appearances
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Research Interests
19th and 20th century Russian Literature, Dostoevsky, Jewish Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Literary Translation, Literature and Ethics, Poetry.
Awards And Honors
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Finalist, AATSEEL Award for Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies,听2009
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Poetry Finalist for Best Translated Book of the Year, University of Rochester / three percent (for Night Wraps the Sky), 2008
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Semi-finalist, 鈥淒iscovery鈥/ The Nation poetry contest, 2002
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2nd Prize in Poetry, Summer Literary Seminars (Petersburg, Russia) Writing Contest, 2001
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Center for the Study of Religion Dissertation Award, Princeton University, 2000
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American Translators Association Lewis Galanti猫re Prize for Best Book (for Texaco), 1998