Ramón Saldívar
· Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of English, of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American CulturesStanford University · Slavic Languages and Literatures
Active 1979–2023
About
Ramón Saldívar is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, also holding courtesy appointments in Iberian and Latin American Cultures and English. His teaching and research focus on cultural studies, literary theory, modernism, Chicano narrative, and Post-colonial literature. His academic background includes a Ph.D. and M.Phil. from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of Texas, Austin. Saldívar's publications reflect his diverse interests, with notable works including 'Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce,' which studies the authority of meaning in canonical European and American novels; 'Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference,' a history of Chicano narrative forms; and 'The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary,' a study of the modern American borderlands, transnationalism, and globalism. He has served on various academic boards and councils, including the Board of Governors of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the editorial boards of American Literature and Modern Fiction Studies. Saldívar has received numerous awards and fellowships, such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and has been recognized for his contributions to undergraduate education at Stanford.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Computer Science
- Art
- Literature
- Political Science
- Economics
- Aesthetics
- Law
- Finance
- Business
- Programming language
- Economy
- History
- Geography
Selected publications
Duke University Press eBooks · 2023
- Geography
Elizabeth Ault, was every thing: patient when I needed it but also mindful of timing (and the paper shortages of the pandemic supply chain!);I'm especially
Winfried Fluck and the Social Imaginary: Reading “The Imaginary and the Second Narrative”
REAL · 2023-12-01
article1st authorCorrespondingCity Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures
The Ohio State University Press eBooks · 2023 · 14 citations
- Sociology
- Computer Science
- Sociology
Three anonymous reviewers of an unsuccessful research initiative on historical North American city scripts directed by Barbara Buchenau provided useful feedback.This
Criticism on the Border and the Decolonization of Knowledge
American Literary History · 2021-10-16
article1st authorCorrespondingAbstract Structures of hierarchy and domination are never represented in transborder literature as singular effects of social conditions. Instead, they arise from multiple historical factors. Unlike writings that assume a racial binary, literature on the border does not posit one kind of domination and hierarchy as barriers to creating a just, democratic society. In recent literary works from the transborder regions, the yearning for justice within the layered social systems on the border is central, even while its attainment through social transformation remains an attenuated hope. This essay outlines a paradigm for studying the relations between global and local areas of study, such as those in the transborder regions of the Americas. Invoking models for literary critical work in a globally bordered form, it posits the need for a larger view based on how knowledge is generated and human resources used, while acknowledging the reservoir of knowledge that exists beyond Europe and the US in the Global South. The function of the rebordered criticism described here is to respond to issues raised by African philosopher Achille Mbembe, Latin American sociologist Enrique Dussel and other decolonial thinkers concerning different ways of conceiving the achievement of an antiracist and socially just future. In the face of [the] compromised hopefulness [for justice on the border], what kind of criticism could best [respond to and] … help enact projects of social change?
Narrative, Ideology, and the Reconstruction of American Literary History
Duke University Press eBooks · 2020 · 1 citations
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- Political Science
- Literature
11 The Shadow and the Imaginary Functioning of Institutions
2020-11-20
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding7 Bilingual Aesthetics and the Law of the Heart
2020-11-20
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding3 The Checkerboard of Consciousness in George Washington Gómez
2020-11-20
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingDuke University Press eBooks · 2020 · 1 citations
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- Sociology
9 Narrative and the Idioms of Race, Nation, and Identity
2020-11-20
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Frequent coauthors
- 82 shared
Ralph E. Rodriguez
- 82 shared
Richard Rodríguez
Universidad Científica del Sur
- 81 shared
Mel Chen
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
- 81 shared
Richard B. Goodman
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- 81 shared
Jess Waggoner
- 81 shared
Ann Cullingford
Duke University
- 81 shared
Monica Guzmán
Southwestern University
- 81 shared
Kelly Mcdonough
Awards & honors
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- Danforth Doctoral Fellowship
- Lillian and Thomas B. Rhodes Award for Excellence in Undergr…
- Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contribution to U…
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