Transglobal Humanities: Meeting the Moment

As the world turns toward increased cultural and commercial integration, it is not clear that humanities programs are sufficiently equipped to engage a global turn in higher education. Furthermore, though “global engagement” has emerged as a buzzword with cache across campus and community organizational missions, the current humanities canon may likewise be ill-equipped to meet the moment. Accordingly, the chapters contained in this volume, which reflect a richly global diversity of authors, themes, and disciplines, critically examine structures that determine the what and how of humanities dissemination worldwide, including technological innovation as well as the dominance of English (-translated) works in the curriculum and the global humanities market. Additionally, we examine blendings of the local and the global, the particular and the universal, the many faces of the cultural other, and possibilities for un-othering in humanities arts and letters, curriculum, and pedagogies.

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Acronyms
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Translation of Innovations
Mark K. Warford
Buffalo State University
Chapter 2 Tarzan and Glocalization: A Journey of Tarzan from Edgar Rice Burroughs (America) to Mazhar Dehlvi (Pakistan)
Sobia Kiran
York University
Chapter 3 Rooted in Memory: The Digital Humanities and Global Environmental Sustainability
Amanda Furiasse
Nova Southeastern University
Chapter 4 Grazia Deledda’s Global Humanities Fiction
Andrea Guiati
Buffalo State University
Chapter 5 Re-visiting Ambedkarite Social Philosophy in the Present Times
Krishna Sinhamahapatra
School of Humanities and Engineering Sciences, MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi, Pune, India
Chapter 6 Beyond the Material: The Human Spirit in Higher Education
Tiffani Betts Razavi
University of Maryland
Chapter 7 The Root of the Argument: Using Tibetan Debate to Help Students Thrive in an Economy of Insight
Cleve Wiese
Worcester State University
Chapter 8 Transforming Humanities Disciplinary Education: A Case Study in Hong Kong Higher Education
Beatrice Lok
Saint Francis University, Hong Kong
Transitions (and Transgressions?)
Index

Mark K. Warford, PhD, currently serves as an associate professor in the Modern and Classical Languages Department at Buffalo State University (SUNY). As a scholar, he has published and presented in the areas of applied linguistics, pedagogy, innovation studies, and sociocultural theory, as well as translation and post-Jungian studies, having recently developed an approach to translation influenced by psychoanalytic studies (‘la traducción profunda’ or “depth translation”). A former president and current vice-president of the Analytical Psychology Society of Western New York, Warford recently published ‘Mantha: Alchemies of the Cultural Turn for Vernon Press’.

Global Humanities, Engaged Humanities, Humanities, Global Studies, Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, World Religions