David Palumbo-Liu is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Stanford University. David is also an activist in his own right outside of academia, and uses his intellectual prowess and resources to cultivate the rhetoric necessary in writing about progressive political topics.

He is the founding editor of the e-journal, Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities and a Contributing Editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books. He also blogs for ** Truthout's Public Intellect Project, as well as for The Huffington Post, Salon.com , Al Jazeera , OpenDemocracy, The Nation, AlterNet, and other venues. David is part of the HASTAC Steering Committee and the Academic Steering and Advocacy Committee for the Open Library of Humanities. He also founded and directs the Teaching Human Rights Collaboratory.