Migrating Minds contributes to the prominent interdisciplinary domain of Cosmopolitan Studies with twenty innovative essays by humanities scholars from all over the world that re-examine theories and practices of cosmopolitanism from a variety of perspectives.

Didier Coste is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Montaigne University, Bordeaux, France.

Christina Kkona is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at Montaigne University, Bordeaux, France.

Nicoletta Pireddu is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Georgetown University, USA, and Inaugural Director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, and Director of the Global and Comparative Literature Program.

0 Didier COSTE, Christina KKONA, Nicoletta PIREDDU. "Introduction. Where Are They All Going? Ways of the Cosmopolitan Mind."

Part 1 Cosmopolitan Theories, Contemporary Debates

1 Jean-Pierre DUBOST. "The Paradox of the Cosmopolitan: Individuality, Globalism and the Indefinite Openness of the World."

2 Robert TALLY. "A Postmodern Mappa Mundi: Cosmopolitanism, Heterotopia, and the World System."

3 Alexis NOUSS. "Exilic and Refugee Cosmopolitanism: The Migrant as a Political Subject."

4 Angélica MONTES-MONTOYA. "Édouard Glissant and Creole Cosmopolitanization."

5 Bertrand GUEST. "For an Earthly and Cosmic Justice: Some Voices Raised against Climatic Walls."

6 ZHANG Longxi. "Reaching Out to the World Against the Grain: The Relevance of Cosmopolitanism in our Time."

Part 2 Cosmopolitics in Literature

7 Didier COSTE. "A Mixed Lot on the Margins: Mimetic Desire and Native Impersonations."

8 Maya BOUTAGHOU. "Being Berber, or How to be Condemned to Cosmopolitanism: Jean Amrouche (1906-1962)."

9 Ignacio LÓPEZ-CALVO and Garima Singh PANWAR. "Global South Aesthetics of Anxiety: (Un)rooted Cosmopolitanism in Horacio Castellanos Moya's El sueño del retorno and Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness."

10 Gautam CHAKRABARTI . "Hei-Ren-Hei-Hu: Be/Longing and E/Migration in the Work of a Chinese Dissident."

11 Sébastien DOUBINSKY. "Breakthrough or Breakdown? Transcultural Communication in Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris."

12 Hena AHMAD. "Cosmopolitan Feminism/Feminist Cosmopolitanism in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire."

13 Christina KKONA."Xenophilic Queerness in Virginia Woolf and Reinaldo Arenas."

Part 3 The Teachings of Live Cosmopolitanism

14 Apostolos LAMPROPOULOS. "Cosmopolitanism, Ghostpitality, and Some (Un)critical Intimacies."

15 Tintin WULIA. "Making Worlds with Things: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism, Performance, and Iconic Objects from the Border."

16 Nicoletta PIREDDU. "Euroglottogonia, or Exercises in Continental Cosmopolitanism."

17 Mihaela URSA. "Cosmopolis Today: Comparative Literature and its Diacritical Marks."

18 Huiwen (Helen) ZHANG. "Transreading Across Cultures: American Students Decipher a Modern Chinese Classic."

19 Rukmini Bhaya NAIR. "Caged Childhoods? Human Capabilities, Migrating Cosmopolitanisms, and Educational Experimentation."

Part 4 A Writer's Meditation on Migrancy and Cosmopolitanism

20 Ying CHEN. "Letters from Umbria and Other Places, Summer 2019: An Interview with Christine LORRE-JOHNSTON."