Digital Humanities and Archiving
The digital sphere is undoubtedly a vibrant platform of exchange for world literature. By compiling and comparing online resources, we hope to explore innovations and disruptions created in the digital sphere.
Although the ideal of a global “World Wide Web” is to some degree an aspirational horizon — many regions do not have the infrastructure to provide widespread internet connectivity — it provides unprecedented access to resources, as well as connecting scholars from around the globe. For example, we can note that the digital platform allows for the creation of digital archives like MULOSIGE! While literary texts in non-latin scripts have been neglected by many digital archives, this is starting to change with new scholarship on the digital lives of non-European languages and projects like al-kitaab flourishing online.
Visiting physical libraries and engaging in fieldwork research remains central to our engagement with World Literature, as many archives cannot be accessed through online platforms. However, we hope that MULOSIGE can offer a digital archive which will keep growing as we add to the non-euroncentric literary resources that are available online.
MULOSIGE Reading List: Re-Orienting Modernism, Mapping East-East Exchanges
Assistant Professor Levi Thompson (University of Colorado, Boulder) offers a reading list to re-orient conceptions of modernism, drawing on East-East exchanges.
MULOSIGE Reading List: World Literature and Planetary Catastrophe
Dr Florian Mussgnug (UCL) provides a reading list on World Literature and Planetary Catastrophe.
MULOSIGE Reading List: The Poetics of the Orphan In Postcolonial Literature
Matt Reeck (UCLA) offers a guided reading list to interrogate the "Poetics of the Orphan in Postcolonial Literature".
Being Human
In this podcast, Dr Vayu Naidu discusses the MULOSIGE project with Professor Francesca Orsini, Itzea Goikolea-Amiano and Jack Clift. As part of the Being Human festival, Dr Vayu Naidu gives a storytelling workshop at the N4 Library and discusses how multiple languages, improvisation and music can create fascinating new paths for stories and literature to travel across the world.
What’s in a Name? On Afghanistan’s Fraught Persian Language Politics
Ronah Baha discusses the politics of the BBC's decision to name their BBC Afghanistan page 'BBC Dari', focusing on the rich diversity of Persian literary and civilisational linguistic histories.
MULOSIGE Syllabus: Colonialism, a multilingual local and its significant geographies
By taking multilingualism seriously, this course traces the trajectories of literature under colonialism and challenges simple models of world literature.