Mapping World Anglophone Studies: English in a World of Strangers

This book explores core issues in the emerging field of World Anglophone Studies. It shows that traditional frameworks based on the colonial and imperial legacies of English need to be revised and extended to understand the complex adaptations, iterations, and incarnations of English in the contemporary world.

Pavan Kumar Malreddy specializes in 20th and 21st century comparative Anglophone literatures & cultures with a regional focus on East Asia, Africa, and South Asia and with a thematic focus on conflicts, communal bonds, insurgencies, populism, public life and migrancy. He co-edits Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium; his recent books include several co-edited volumes and the forthcoming monograph Insurgent Cultures: World Literatures and Violence from the Global South (2024).

Frank Schulze-Engler was Professor of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Institute of English and American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt and retired in 2023. His research and publications focus on African, Asian, Caribbean, Pacific and indigenous literatures and cultures, comparative perspectives on anglophone literatures in English, Indian Ocean Studies, ’postcolonial’ Europe, postcolonial theory, and transculturality in a world of globalized modernity.