David Palumbo-Liu

David Palumbo-Liu is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of comparative literature and, by courtesy, English at Stanford University. He is the author most recently of "The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age" and the co-editor of "Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture." His work has appeared in The Nation, Salon, The Guardian, Truthout, Al Jazeera, AlterNet and other venues. You can follow him at Twitter at @palumboliu.