Khachig Tölölyan
Khachig Tölölyan is an Armenian-American scholar of diaspora studies.Biography
Tölölyan was born 1944 in Aleppo, Syria to Armenian parents from Turkey and grew up in the Armenian diaspora communities of the Middle East. He moved to the US at the age of 16 and initially settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University with BA in Molecular Biology and later acquired a MA from both the University of Rhode Island and Wesleyan University and PhD from Brown University in Comparative Literature. He has published articles on literature, including on novelist Thomas Pynchon, terrorism, nationalism, diasporas, transnationalism and globalization. He is considered a founder of the academic discipline of diaspora studies.
He is currently Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Wesleyan University. He is the founder of the academic journal Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. The journal was initially published by Oxford University Press. Since 1996, it is published by the University of Toronto Press.Publications
Tölölyan's most cited publications are:
