The Book of Form and Emptiness

<h4>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: <i>The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age</i> (Duke UP, 2012), and a co-edited volume,<i>&nbsp;Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture</i>&nbsp;(Duke UP, 2011).&nbsp;He is part of the Public Intellectual Project at <i class="">Truthout</i>, and blogs at <i class="">The Nation</i>, <i class="">Salon</i>, <i class="">The Huffington Post</i>, <i class="">The Boston Review</i>, and other venues.</h4>

David Palumbo-Liu

An Urgent New Book for the Time Being

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Learning, and Not Caring: On the MLA’s Palestine Resolution

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

The Opium Wars, Neoliberalism, and the Anthropocene

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

The Falling Apartness of Things

An Interview with Freida Lee Mock About Her Film “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power”

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

Where We Are for the Time Being with Ruth Ozeki

<h4>Hilton Obenzinger writes cultural criticism, history, fiction and poetry. He is the author of <i>American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania</i>, a literary and historical study of American fascination with the Holy Land. He has published chapters in books and articles in scholarly journals on American Holy Land travel, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Zionism, and American cultural interactions with the Middle East, including “Naturalizing Cultural Pluralism, Americanizing Zionism: The Settler Colonial Basis to Early Twentieth Century Progressive Thought” and “Melville, Holy Lands, and Settler-Colonial Studies.” His current projects include <i>Melting Pots and Promised Lands: Early Zionism and the Idea of America, </i>a study of entwined settler colonial narratives from the 19th century to 1948.</h4>
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<h4>His most recent book, <i>Beginning: The Immigration Poems, 1924-1926, of Nachman Obzinger, </i>is a selection of his father’s poems written in Lublin and New York translated from the Yiddish (with Rabbi Benjamin Weiner). His other works include<i> Busy Dying</i>, an autobiographical fiction; <i>Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust by Zosia Goldberg as told to Hilton Obenzinger</i>, an oral history of his aunt’s ordeal during the war; <i>Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco</i>, a novel of invented documents that recounts the history of San Francisco from the Spanish conquest to 1906; <i>New York on Fire</i>, a history of the fires of New York in verse, selected by the <i>Village Voice</i> as one of the best books of the year and nominated by the Bay Area Book Reviewer’s Association for its award in poetry; <i>This Passover Or The Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem</i>, a sequence of poetry and prose that received the American Book Award. He teaches American Studies at Stanford University and is Associate Director of Stanford’s Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, a trans-Pacific study of the Chinese laborers who built the transcontinental railroad.</h4>
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Hilton Obenzinger

<h4>Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. From 2006 to 2008 he was Professor of History and Director of Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo. In 2001-’02 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. His latest books are <i>Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa</i> 2nd ed. (Stanford University Press, 2013), co-edited with Frédéric Vairel, and <i>The Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt</i> (Solidarity Center, 2010).</h4>

Joel Beinin

Let’s Have Reasoned Debate, Not Distortion and Calumny: A Reply to Russell Berman

Why an Academic Boycott?

Blow Up The Humanities

<h4>Srinivas Aravamudan is Dean of the Humanities at Duke University and Professor of English, Romance Studies, and the Literature Program. His areas of expertise are 18th-century British and French Literature, postcolonial studies, and literary theory. His most recent book is <em>Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel</em> (University of Chicago Press, 2012).</h4>

Srinivas Aravamudan

<h4><strong>Julia Reinhard Lupton teaches English at UC Irvine and keeps digital house at thinkingwithShakespeare.org. She is the author, co-author or editor of seven books, including <em>Thinking with Shakespeare</em> and <em>Design Your Life</em> (with Ellen Lupton).</strong></h4>

Julia Lupton

The Academy In Peril: A Symposium

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: <i>The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age</i> (Duke UP, 2012), and a co-edited volume,<i>&nbsp;Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture</i>&nbsp;(Duke UP, 2011).&nbsp;He is part of the Public Intellectual Project at <i class="">Truthout</i>, and blogs at <i class="">The Nation</i>, <i class="">Salon</i>, <i class="">The Huffington Post</i>, <i class="">The Boston Review</i>, and other venues.

David Palumbo-Liu

Articles