Khachig Tölölyan Explained

Region:Western philosophy
Era:Contemporary philosophy
20th century philosophy
Khachig Tölölyan
Native Name:Խաչիկ Թէօլէօլեան
Birth Place:Aleppo, Syria
Main Interests:Diaspora studies, globalization, nationalism, transnationalism, world literature, narratology, modern novel, literary theory, film theory, Thomas Pynchon
Language:English, Armenian
Education:Harvard University
University of Rhode Island
Wesleyan University
Brown University
Institutions:Wesleyan University

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

Biography

Early life

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] 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.

Education

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

Tölölyan was a professor of English and Letters at Wesleyan University until his retirement in 2021.[7] He is the founder of the academic journal Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, which has published articles by notable scholars such as Rey Chow,[8] Vijay Mishra,[9] and Lisa Lowe.[10] The journal was initially published by Oxford University Press. Since 1996, it has been published by the University of Toronto Press.[11]

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. 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.[12] [13]

Publications

Tölölyan's most cited publications are:[14]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ang . Ien . On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West . 2005 . Routledge . 9781134512928 . 75 . If, as Armenian-American scholar Khachig Tololyan has claimed....
  2. Book: Subramani . Navigating Islands and Continents: Conversations and Contestations in and Around the Pacific : Selected Essays . 2000 . . Honolulu . 173 . The Diasporic Imagination . ...gurus of diaspora like Khachig Tölölyan....
  3. Book: Shain . Yossi . Yossi Shain . Kinship & diasporas in international affairs . limited . 2007 . . 191 . ...by Armenian diasporic expert Khachig Tololyan....
  4. Web site: Minas Tölölyan, a Biography . hamazkayin-usa.org . Hamazkayin Eastern Region USA . https://web.archive.org/web/20200302091455/http://hamazkayin-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MinasTololyanBiography.pdf . 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. Web site: Թեոլեոլյան, Խաչիկ Մինասի, 1944- (Personal Name) . nla.am . . https://web.archive.org/web/20200302091822/http://haygirk.nla.am/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.pl?authid=32651 . 2 March 2020 . hy.
  6. Metsch-Ampel . Elana . From Lebanon to the US, Professor Khachig Tölölyan Reflects on 34 Years of Change . . 3 March 2009 .
  7. Web site: 7 Faculty Retire from Wesleyan. 2021-08-19. News @ Wesleyan. en-US.
  8. 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 . 10.3138/diaspora.2.2.151 . 1044-2057.
  9. Mishra . Vijay . 1996-09-01 . (B)ordering Naipaul: Indenture History and Diasporic Poetics . Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies . 5 . 2 . 189–237 . 10.3138/diaspora.5.2.189 . 1044-2057.
  10. Lowe . Lisa . 1991-03-01 . Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences . Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies . 1 . 1 . 24–44 . 10.3138/diaspora.1.1.24 . 1044-2057.
  11. Web site: Khachig Tölölyan . archumanities.am . Armenian Research Center in Humanities.
  12. Web site: Staff . Weekly . 2011-07-07 . Tololyan Lectures on Diasporas . 2022-10-20 . The Armenian Weekly . en-US.
  13. Web site: ARMENIAN DIASPORA SURVEY: REFLECTIONS ON FINDINGS with Khachig Tölölyan . 2022-10-20 . Armenian Institute . 18 November 2018 . en-GB.
  14. Web site: Khachig Tölölyan . Google Scholar.

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