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Ramon Saldívar is the Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2012. He has previously served as Chair of the Department of English and the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford. His teaching and research interests focus on literary criticism, literary theory, cultural studies, transnationalism, and Chicano studies. He has authored several significant works, including "Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech in Cervantes and Joyce" and analyzed the development of Chicano narrative forms in "Chicano Narrative: Dialectics of Difference". Saldívar has received numerous awards, including the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award and the Lillian Thomas B. Rhodes Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He has held various editorial positions and contributed to several prestigious journals such as PMLA and American Literary History. His current research explores the intersection of race, narrative theory, and American fiction, examining contemporary racial imaginaries and speculative realism.
Stanford University • Stanford, California
Served as a professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, Texas
Taught as a professor in the Department of English.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, Texas
Served as Associate Professor in the Department of English.
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