Jose Saldivar
Leon Sloss, Jr. Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
José David Saldívar is a scholar of late postcontemporary culture, especially the minoritized literatures of the United States, Latin America, and the transamerican hemisphere, and of border narrative and poetics from the sixteenth century to the present.
He is the author of The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Duke University Press, 1991), Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (University of California Press, 1997), and Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico (Duke University Press, 2012),coeditor (with Monica Hanna and Jennifer Harford Vargas) of Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination (Duke University Press, 2016) coeditor (with Héctor Calderón) of Criticism in the Borderlands (Duke University Press, 1991), and editor of The Rolando Hinojosa Reader (Arte Público Press, 1985).
Additionally, he has published numerous articles in journals such as Cultural Studies, American Literary History, The Americas Review, Revista Casa de las Américas, Daedalus, Modern Fiction Studies, and The Global South. He has served on the editorial boards of Duke University Press, the University of California Press, and currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals American Literary History, The Global South, Aztlan, and World Knowledges Otherwise. He has received personal research grants from The Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the University of California President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, the William Rice Kimball Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (invitation for a future visit).
His teaching is divided evenly between graduate seminars and undergraduate courses, and some of his undergraduate courses are cross-listed in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
In 2003, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Western Literature Association; in 2005, he received the Chicano Scholar of the Year Award from the Modern Language Association; in 2007 he received the Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award from the University of California, Berkeley; and in 2016, he was the winner of the American Literature Society's highest honor, the Jay B. Hubbell Medal. The medal is sponsored by the American Literature Society, an allied organization of the Modern Language Association, and is awarded annually to one "scholar whose lifetime of scholarly work has significantly advanced the study of American literature." . Before coming to Stanford in January 2010, Saldívar was the Class of 1942 Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor, Comparative Literature
Professor (By courtesy), Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Distinguished Achievement Award, Western Literature Association (2003)
Chicana/Chicano Scholar Award, Modern Language Association (2005)
Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, Graduate Division and the Academic Senate, University of California, Berkeley (2007)
Jay B. Hubbell Medal, American Literature Society (Modern Language Association) (2016)
Leon Sloss, Jr. Professor, Stanford University (2016)
Class of 1942 Professor of the Departments of Ethnic Studies and English, University of California, Berkeley
Fellowship, School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College
Fellowship for Study in Modern Society and Values, American Council of Learned Societies
President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley
Research Fellowship, Humanities Division, University of California, Berkeley
William Rice Kimball Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
Member of Editorial Press Board, Stanford University Press (2017 - Present)
Member of Advisory Board, Townsend Humanities Center, University of California, Berkeley
Member of Advisory Board, Futures of Minority Studies Institute, Cornell University
Member of Editorial Board, University of California Press
Member of Editorial Board, Duke University Press
Member of Editorial Board, ECHO: A Music-Centered Journal, University of California, Los Angeles
Member of Editorial Board, The Global South
Member of Editorial Board, American Literary History (ALH)
Program Affiliations
Modern Thought and Literature
Ph.D., Stanford University, English (Comparative Literature, Minor) (1983)
M.A., Stanford University, English (1979)
B.A., Yale University, Literature (1977)
jds1@stanford.edu
University - Faculty Department:&nbspComparative Literature Position: Professor
Black Panther, Hamilton, Díaz, and Other Wondrous Lives
COMPLIT 55N, CSRE 55N (Aut)
Introduction to the Profession of Literary Studies
COMPLIT 369, DLCL 369, FRENCH 369, GERMAN 369, ITALIAN 369 (Aut)
Literatures of the War of 1898: Spain, Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and the United States
ILAC 225 (Spr)
The Laboring of Diaspora & Border Literary Cultures
COMPLIT 149, ILAC 149 (Win)
US-Mexico Border Fictions: Writing La Frontera, Tearing Down the Wall
COMPLIT 348 (Win)
Independent Studies (11)
Directed Reading
CHILATST 200W (Win, Spr)
CSRE 200W (Win, Spr)
CSRE 200R (Win, Spr)
Graduate Independent Study
MTL 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
Honors Thesis Oral Presentation
DLCL 199 (Spr)
Honors Thesis Seminar
DLCL 189B (Win)
DLCL 189C (Spr)
COMPLIT 194 (Win, Spr)
Independent Study or Directed Reading
LATINAM 299 (Win, Spr)
Individual Work
Reading for Orals
MTL 399 (Aut, Win, Spr)
COMPLIT 55N (Aut)
Concepts of Modernity II: Culture, Aesthetics, and Society in the Age of Globalization
COMPLIT 334B, MTL 334B (Win)
Introduction to Borderlands Literature of the Americas
OSPSANTG 44 (Spr)
MMUF Seminar
CSRE 55M (Aut, Win, Spr)
COMPLIT 149, CSRE 149, ILAC 149 (Win)
COMPLIT 334B, ENGLISH 334B, MTL 334B (Win)
COMPLIT 149, ILAC 149 (Spr)
Batman, Hamilton, Díaz, and Other Wondrous Lives
Senior Seminar
Stanford Advisees
Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Elix Colón, Marguerite De Loney, Ellis Schriefer
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Chiara Giovanni, Nancy Martinez
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (NonAC)
Melanie Leon
Junot Díaz And the Decolonial Imagination edited by Saldivar, J. D., Hanna, M., Vargas, J. H. 2016
Trans-Americanity Saldivar, J. D. Duke University Press. 2012
Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies Saldívar, J. D. University of California Press. 1997
Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology Saldívar, J. D. Duke University Press. 1991
The Dialectics of Our America; Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History Saldívar, J. D. Duke University Press. 1991
The Rolando Hinojosa Reader: Essays Historical and Critical Saldívar, J. D. Arte Público Press. 1985
Making democracy surreal: Political race and The 'Miner's Canary' AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Saldivar, J. D. 2008; 20 (3): 609-621
View details for DOI 10.1093/alh/ajn031
The Hybridity of Culture in Arturo Islas' The Rain God Critical Mapping of Arturo Islas' Fictions Saldívar, J. D. edited by Aldama, F. L. Tempe: Bilingual Press. 2008: 21–38
Unsettling race, coloniality, and caste - Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera, Martinez's Parrot in the Oven, and Roy's The God of Small Things Workshop on Coloniality of Power and De-Colonial Thinking Saldivar, J. D. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. 2007: 339–67
View details for DOI 10.1080/09502380601162563
Border Thinking, Minoritized Studies, and Realist Interpellations: the Coloniality of Power from Gloria Anzaldúa to Arundhati Roy Identity Politics Reconsidered Saldívar, J. D. edited by Mohanty, S., Alcoff, L. M., Hames-García, M., Moya, P. New York: Palgrave. 2006: 152–170