Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination brings together essays on literary and artistic practice involving cross-cultural transactions in the post-colonial world. The essays explore broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the productive tension between language, culture, and the polis.

Stephanos Stephanides is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cyprus. He is a poet, critic, translator, and documentary filmmaker.
Stavros S. Karayanni is Associate Professor of English at European University Cyprus. He is managing editor of the multilingual journal Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus.