About the Professor

Ramón Saldívar is professor of English and comparative literature. His teaching and research focus on literary criticism and theory, the history of the novel, 19th and early 20th century literary studies, cultural studies, and Chicano studies. His books are Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce, and Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as other research grants and awards for excellence in teaching. Professor Saldívar has been a resident fellow at Roble Hall, director of the Chicano Fellows Program, associate dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and vice provost for undergraduate education at Stanford University.