Ramón Saldívar

Ramón Saldívar, professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2012. In March 2013 President Obama appointed him to the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities on which he served until 2025.

His teaching and research focus on the areas of literary criticism and literary theory, 19th, 20th and 21st century literary studies, the history of the novel and other narrative forms, issues concerning transnationalism, globalization and decolonization, critical race theory, comparative studies in race and ethnicity, and U.S. Latinx Studies. He is the author and editor of four books and numerous other scholarly publications.

In 2006, he was awarded the Modern Language Association Prize in U.S. Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies for his book, The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. During the 2019-20 academic year he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

He is Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Studies, and has served as Chair of the Department of English and the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. From 2012-19, Professor Saldivar served as the Burke Family Director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford. He has also served as the Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. He was Faculty Athletic Representative from 2002-2005 and again in 2010-2011 and on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association.