In preparation for Suresh Canagarajah’s talk on February 6, the Literacy in Translation working group (lead by Nina Berman, Dan Reff, and me) are hosting a discussion of Professor Canagarajah’s new book Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations (Routledge 2013), on Friday, January 24, 2014, 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Humanities Institute, 104 East 15th Avenue. Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Translingual Practice is available electronically through University Libraries. The discussion will focus mainly on Chapters 1 and 2, the “Introduction” and “Theorizing Translingual Practice.”