David Palumbo-Liu is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, and Professor of Comparative Literature, and, by courtesy, English, at Stanford University. He has written three scholarly books and edited three academic volumes on issues relating to cultural studies, ethnic studies, and literary theory. His recent books are: The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age (Duke UP, 2012), and a co-edited volume, Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture (Duke UP, 2011). He is part of the Public Intellectual Project at Truthout, and blogs at The Nation, Salon, The Huffington Post, The Boston Review, and other venues.
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An Urgent New Book for the Time Being
David Palumbo-Liu argues for the radical message of “The Book of Form and Emptiness” by Ruth Ozeki....
Learning, and Not Caring: On the MLA’s Palestine Resolution
When professional mastery equals political quietism....
The Opium Wars, Neoliberalism, and the Anthropocene
David Palumbo-Liu interviews author and cultural critic Amitav Ghosh....
The Falling Apartness of Things
NoViolet Bulawayo interview with David Palumbo-Liu....
An Interview with Freida Lee Mock About Her Film “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power”
"I knew that I wanted to tell the story of Anita Hill — who she was, where she came from, what motivated her in her work and life."...
Where We Are for the Time Being with Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki: "The novel, with its two narrators Ruth and Nao, is a kind of overt performance of these Buddhist propositions of interbeing and time being."...
Let’s Have Reasoned Debate, Not Distortion and Calumny: A Reply to Russell Berman
Joel Beinin, Hilton Obenzinger, and David Palumbo-Liu respond to Russell Berman’s essay criticizing the movement to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel (BDS)....
Why an Academic Boycott?
This is one of eight essays we published today on "Academic Activism: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Ethics of Boycott." Click here ...
The Academy In Peril: A Symposium
nbsp; Julia Reinhard LuptonTowards Cultural Policy IN HIS NEW BOOK Blow Up the Humanities, Toby Miller divides the humanities into ...
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