David Palumbo-Liu
David Palumbo-Liu
Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor
Professor of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, English
Director, Comparative Literature
Director, Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature
Director, Undergraduate Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Contact:
Building 260, Room 229
Phone: 650 725 4915
palumbo-liu@stanford.edu
BIO:
David Palumbo-Liu’s fields of interest include social and cultural criticism, literary theory and criticism, East Asian and Asia Pacific American studies. His most recent book, The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age (Duke, 2012) addresses the role of contemporary humanistic literature with regard to the instruments and discourses of globalization, seeking to discover modes of affiliation and transnational ethical thinking; he is also co-editor with Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi of Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture (Duke, 2011). Palumbo-Liu is most interested in issues regarding social theory, community, race and ethnicity, justice, globalization, ecology, and the specific role that literature and the humanities play in helping us address each of these areas. He is the founding editor of Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (found on Arcade) and blogs for TruthOut andThe Boston Review. He is also a Contributing Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and on the Academic Steering and Advocacy Committee of the Open Library of the Humanities and the Advisory Board of BiblioTech.
Please visit his web site for more information, essays, blogs, events: http://www.palumbo-liu.com
CURRICULUM VITAE:
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1988: Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), University of California, Berkeley
WEBSITE URL:
http://www.stanford.edu/~palboliuNews & Events
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Courses
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COMPLIT146Spr2012-13
An examination of the history of Asians in America via one case history: the International Hotel in San Francisco. Background history of Asians in America, and the specifics of the I Hotel case as involving the convergence of global and local economies, urban redevelopment, and housing issues for minorities. Focus on the convergence of community and cultural production. Service learning component involving community work at the Manilatown Heritage Foundation in San Francisco. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
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COMPLIT51NWin2012-13
We may "know" "who" we "are," but we are, after all, social creatures. How does our sense of self interact with those around us? How does literature provide a particular medium for not only self expression, but also for meditations on what goes into the construction of "the Self"? After all, don't we tell stories in response to the question, "who are you"? Besides a list of nouns and names and attributes, we give our lives flesh and blood in telling how we process the world. Our course focuses in particular on this question--Does this universal issue ("who am I") become skewed differently when we add a qualifier before it, like "ethnic"?
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COMPLIT369Aut2012-13
Major texts of modern literary criticism in the context of professional scholarship today. Readings of critics such as Lukács, Auerbach, Frye, Ong, Benjamin, Adorno, Szondi, de Man, Abrams, Bourdieu, Vendler, and Said. Contemporary professional issues including scholarly associations, journals, national and comparative literatures, university structures, and career paths. Taught in English.
