The Rise of Global Anglophone

Abstract

While providing an overview of the essays that make up this special issue, this “Introduction” considers the relationship between the field designators “postcolonial” and “global anglophone”. Although the global anglophone has emerged as a result of the institutional commodification of diversity, this essay looks at ways in which it might be repurposed as a framework to think with, a framework within which new collaborations between various fields can be instigated and sustained. The essay’s main purpose is to offer ways by which to push past various organizational rubrics that prevent us from grasping the less obvious but nevertheless consequential transformations that are restructuring English departments in the USA and beyond.