Ramon Saldivar

RAM�N SALD�VAR is the Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences in English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is author of Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce (Princeton, 1984), Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference (Wisconsin, 1990), and The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary (Duke, 2006). In 2007 this book was awarded the MLA Prize for best book in the area of US Latina/Latino and Chicana/Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. 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. In 2002 he was named the first Milligan Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education as recognition for his contribution to undergraduate education at Stanford.

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