Khachig Tölölyan
Khachig Tölölyan (born 1944; Western Template:Lang-hy) is an Armenian-American scholar of diaspora studies.[1][2][3]
Biography
Tölölyan was born in 1944 in Aleppo, Syria[4][5] to Armenian parents from Turkey[6][7] and grew up in the Armenian diaspora communities of the Middle East (Syria; Cairo, Egypt; Beirut, Lebanon).[6] He moved to the US at the age of 16 and initially settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.[6] He graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Molecular Biology and later acquired an MA from both the University of Rhode Island and Wesleyan University and a PhD from Brown University in Comparative Literature. He has 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.[8]
He is currently Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Wesleyan University.[8][6] He is the founder of the academic journal Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.[6] The journal was initially published by Oxford University Press. Since 1996, it is published by the University of Toronto Press.[9]
Publications
Tölölyan's most cited publications are:[10]
- 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
- ^ 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 e "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.
- ^ a b "Khachig Tölölyan". wesleyan.edu. Wesleyan University.
- ^ "Khachig Tölölyan". archumanities.am. Armenian Research Center in Humanities.
- ^ "Khachig Tölölyan". Google Scholar.