World Literature is a vital part of twenty-first-century critical studies. Globalization and unprecedented levels of connectivity through communication technologies force literary scholars to rethink the scale of literary production and their own critical practices. As an exciting field that engages seriously with the place and function of literary studies in our global era, the study of world literature requires new approaches. Cambridge Studies in World Literature is founded on the assumption that world literature is not all literatures of the world nor a canonical set of globally successful literary works. The series will highlight scholarship on literary works that focus on the logics of circulation drawn from multiple literary cultures and technologies of the textual. While not rejecting the nation as a site of analysis, the series will offer insights into new cartographies – the hemispheric, the oceanic, the transregional, the archipelagic, the multilingual local – that better reflect the multiscalar and spatially dispersed nature of literary production. It will highlight the creative coexistence, flashpoints, and intersections, of language worlds from both the Global South and the Global North, and multiworld models of literary production and literary criticism that these have generated. It will push against existing historical, methodological, and cartographic boundaries and showcase humanistic and literary endeavors in the face of world-scale environmental and humanitarian catastrophes.