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The research university that fused fundamental inquiry with immersive pedagogy never quite existed in India, though they did exist in separate spaces.

Sohini Basak talks to Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett, and Vidyan Ravinthiran about their new anthology, "Out of Sri Lanka."

With support from Parag and Usha Saxena, the renamed Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown’s Watson Institute will grow its research, teaching, public policy and programming.

Steven Salaita says Palestinians and Native Americans are perfectly suited to an “inter/national relationship” as they share mutually-affirmational national struggles with interlocking destinies.

aga7ta/iStock/Getty Images English departments nowadays are big tents, housing experts on everything from Chaucer and Shakespeare to LGBTQ and diaspora literature. Increasingly, departments are tweaking their names to reflect this diversity. Cornell University’s Board of Trustees, for instance, recently approved the English department’s vote to rebrand itself as the department of literatures in English. Department professors Carole Boyce-Davies, Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Derrick Spires proposed the idea last summer, writing in an open letter that the “double pandemic of COVID-19 and global ra...