Khachig Tölölyan (Western Armenian: Խաչիկ Թէօլէօլեան; born 1944) is an Armenian-American scholar of diaspora studies.
The Tölölyans resided in Aleppo before relocating to Cairo, Egypt in 1956, and then Beirut, Lebanon in 1957.
Tölölyan was a professor of English and Letters at Wesleyan University until his retirement in 2021.
[6][8][9] He is the founder of the academic journal Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies,[6] which has published articles by notable scholars such as Rey Chow,[10] Vijay Mishra,[11] and Lisa Lowe.
[13] Tölölyan has also published articles on literature, including on the novelist Thomas Pynchon, terrorism, nationalism, diasporas, transnationalism, and globalization.