Complex sentence: After graduating from Yale, Saldívar spent 15 years teaching at UT Austin before accepting a position at Stanford in 1991; he has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature there for the past 22 years.
Split into simpler sentences: After graduating from Yale, Saldívar spent 15 years teaching at UT Austin before accepting a position at Stanford in 1991. He has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature there for the past 22 years.