Biography

Ramón Saldívar holds the Hoagland Family Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences, is the Milligan Family Fellow in Undergraduate Studies, and has served as Chair of the Department of English and the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His teaching and research focus on the areas of literary criticism and literary theory, the history of the novel, 19th and early 20th century literary studies, cultural studies, globalization and issues concerning transnationalism, and Chicano and Chicana studies.

Professor Saldívar has served on the editorial boards of Stanford University Press and the scholarly journals, American Literature, Aztlán, and Modern Fiction Studies. His articles have appeared in Modern Language Notes (MLN), English Literary History (ELH), Comparative Literature, Diacritics, Studies in the Novel, Narrative, American Literary History, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, and other major journals. He is author of three books, including Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce (1984), a study of the authority of meaning in the novel, Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference (1990), a history of the development of Chicano narrative forms, and most recently a new book, entitled The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2006). He is currently at work on two new book projects, The TransAmerican Novel: Form, Race, and Narrative Theory in the Americas and Américo Paredes and the Post-war Writings from Asia.

Professor Saldívar is a recipient of the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education and the Lillian and Thomas B. Rhodes Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University from 1994-99.