Source — Wikipedia, "Lawrence Venuti"

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Venuti (b. February 9, 1953, Philadelphia) holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University (1980), where he studied under Edward Said; he taught at Temple University for forty years (1980–2020), with visiting positions at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.
His central concern is the translator's invisibility: "a translation comes to be read as the source text and the translator's interpretive labor is effaced." He attributes this to a "discursive regime" in which fluency is defined narrowly, foreclosing alternative translation approaches.
Domestication vs. foreignization: Venuti critiques "domesticating practices" that suppress the source text's linguistic and cultural differences, and proposes "foreignizing" translation as a counter-strategy — aimed at "sending the reader abroad" and challenging the receiving culture's dominant values, rather than "bringing the author back home" by reinforcing them.
His central book is The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation (1995; 2nd revised edition, 2008).

This page does not connect Venuti explicitly to Bassnett/Lefevere or to the phrase "cultural turn" — that link is this project's own synthesis (and the Wikipedia "Translation studies" source discusses Venuti under a separate "Ethics" heading, not folded into its "cultural turn" paragraph). See the Gaps section of the new concept page for how this project treats the connection.
As a tertiary source, none of the above is checked against Venuti's own text by this project; see the "The Translator's Invisibility" source page for a second, book-specific tertiary source corroborating the domestication/foreignization definitions.