Khachig Tölölyan (born 1944; Western Armenian: Խաչիկ Թէօլէօլեան) is an Armenian-American scholar of diaspora studies.[1][2][3]
Khachig Tölölyan | |
|---|---|
| Խաչիկ Թէօլէօլեան | |
| Born | 1944 (age 79–80) Aleppo, Syria |
| Education | Harvard University University of Rhode Island Wesleyan University Brown University |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy 20th century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | Wesleyan University |
| Language | English, Armenian |
Main interests | Diaspora studies, globalization, nationalism, transnationalism, world literature, narratology, modern novel, literary theory, film theory, Thomas Pynchon |
Biography edit
Early life edit
Tölölyan was born in 1944 in Aleppo, Syria[4][5] to Minas Tölölyan and Kohar Tölölyan (née Chobanian), Armenian intellectuals and educators from Turkey.[6][7] He grew up in the Armenian diaspora communities of the Middle East. The Tölölyans resided in Aleppo before relocating to Cairo, Egypt in 1956, and then Beirut, Lebanon in 1957. In 1960, they eventually moved to the US, settling in Watertown, Massachusetts.[6]
Education edit
Tölölyan graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Molecular Biology and later acquired an M.A. in English from the University of Rhode Island, an M.A.A. from Wesleyan University, and a PhD from Brown University in Comparative Literature.
Career edit
Tölölyan was a professor of English and Letters at Wesleyan University until his retirement in 2021.[6][8][9] He is the founder of the academic journal Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies,[6] which has published articles by notable scholars such as Rey Chow,[10] Vijay Mishra,[11] and Lisa Lowe.[12] The journal was initially published by Oxford University Press. Since 1996, it has been published by the University of Toronto Press.[13]
Tölölyan has also published articles on literature, including on the novelist Thomas Pynchon, terrorism, nationalism, diasporas, transnationalism, and globalization. He is considered a founder of the academic discipline of diaspora studies.[9] Tölölyan is known for being an active member of the Armenian diaspora community and is the author of several hundred columns and articles in Armenian.[14][15]
Publications edit
Tölölyan's most cited publications are:[16]
- Tölölyan, Khachig (1996). "Rethinking diaspora(s): Stateless power in the transnational moment". Diaspora. 5 (1): 3–36. doi:10.1353/dsp.1996.0000. S2CID 145562896.
- Tölölyan, Khachig (1991). "The Nation-State and Its Others: In Lieu of a Preface". Diaspora. 1 (1): 3–7. doi:10.1353/dsp.1991.0008. S2CID 144826260.
References edit
- ^ Ang, Ien (2005). On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West. Routledge. p. 75. ISBN 9781134512928.
If, as Armenian-American scholar Khachig Tololyan has claimed...
- ^ Subramani (2000). "The Diasporic Imagination". Navigating Islands and Continents: Conversations and Contestations in and Around the Pacific : Selected Essays. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 173.
...gurus of diaspora like Khachig Tölölyan...
- ^ Shain, Yossi (2007). Kinship & diasporas in international affairs. University of Michigan Press. p. 191.
...by Armenian diasporic expert Khachig Tololyan...
- ^ "Minas Tölölyan, a Biography" (PDF). hamazkayin-usa.org. Hamazkayin Eastern Region USA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2020.
They arrived in Haleb or Aleppo, Syria. Their son, Khachig, was born there in 1944 and their daughter Sosy in 1950.
- ^ "Թեոլեոլյան, Խաչիկ Մինասի, 1944- (Personal Name)". nla.am (in Armenian). National Library of Armenia. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Khachig Tölölyan" (PDF). MigrationOxford. University of Oxford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-17.
- ^ Metsch-Ampel, Elana (3 March 2009). "From Lebanon to the US, Professor Khachig Tölölyan Reflects on 34 Years of Change". The Wesleyan Argus.
- ^ "7 Faculty Retire from Wesleyan". News @ Wesleyan. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
- ^ a b "Khachig Tölölyan". wesleyan.edu. Wesleyan University.
- ^ Chow, Rey (1992-09-01). "Between Colonizers: Hong Kong's Postcolonial Self-Writing in the 1990s". Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. 2 (2): 151–170. doi:10.3138/diaspora.2.2.151. ISSN 1044-2057.
- ^ Mishra, Vijay (1996-09-01). "(B)ordering Naipaul: Indenture History and Diasporic Poetics". Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. 5 (2): 189–237. doi:10.3138/diaspora.5.2.189. ISSN 1044-2057.
- ^ Lowe, Lisa (1991-03-01). "Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences". Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. 1 (1): 24–44. doi:10.3138/diaspora.1.1.24. ISSN 1044-2057.
- ^ "Khachig Tölölyan". archumanities.am. Armenian Research Center in Humanities.
- ^ Staff, Weekly (2011-07-07). "Tololyan Lectures on Diasporas". The Armenian Weekly. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ^ "ARMENIAN DIASPORA SURVEY: REFLECTIONS ON FINDINGS with Khachig Tölölyan". Armenian Institute. 18 November 2018. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ^ "Khachig Tölölyan". Google Scholar.