Khachig Tölölyan

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Khachig Tölölyan
Խաչիկ Թէօլէօլեան
Born1944 (age 77–78)
Aleppo, Syria
EducationHarvard University
University of Rhode Island
Wesleyan University
Brown University
EraContemporary philosophy
20th century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsWesleyan University
LanguageEnglish, Armenian
Main interests
Diaspora studies, globalization, nationalism, transnationalism, world literature, narratology, modern novel, literary theory, film theory, Thomas Pynchon

Khachig Tölölyan (born 1944; Western Armenian: Խաչիկ Թէօլէօլեան) is an Armenian-American scholar of diaspora studies.[1][2][3]

Biography[]

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] Tölölyan graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Molecular Biology and later acquired an MA from the University of Rhode Island, an MAA from 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]

Tölölyan was a Professor of English and Letters at Wesleyan University until his retirement in 2021.[9][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 has been published by the University of Toronto Press.[10]

Publications[]

Tölölyan's most cited publications are:[11]

  • 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[]

  1. ^ 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...
  2. ^ 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...
  3. ^ Shain, Yossi (2007). Kinship & diasporas in international affairs. University of Michigan Press. p. 191. ...by Armenian diasporic expert Khachig Tololyan...
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Թեոլեոլյան, Խաչիկ Մինասի, 1944- (Personal Name)". nla.am (in Armenian). National Library of Armenia. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d "Khachig Tölölyan" (PDF). MigrationOxford. University of Oxford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-17.
  7. ^ Metsch-Ampel, Elana (3 March 2009). "From Lebanon to the US, Professor Khachig Tölölyan Reflects on 34 Years of Change". The Wesleyan Argus.
  8. ^ a b "Khachig Tölölyan". wesleyan.edu. Wesleyan University.
  9. ^ "7 Faculty Retire from Wesleyan". News @ Wesleyan. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  10. ^ "Khachig Tölölyan". archumanities.am. Armenian Research Center in Humanities.
  11. ^ "Khachig Tölölyan". Google Scholar.
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