
In an interview with Arcade, D. Venkat Rao of the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad discusses humanities research and pedagogy in non-Western spaces, particularly classrooms in South Asia.
In an interview with Arcade, D. Venkat Rao of the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad discusses humanities research and pedagogy in non-Western spaces, particularly classrooms in South Asia.
Though many of us are frequently concerned with what we’re currently teaching and why, and though we might have strong opinions about what ought to be taught in the coming years, fewer of us have a comprehensive understanding of how the past century of institutional approaches to curriculum design has contributed to our present circumstances.
How might one design or adapt a course to make it more responsibly global? How might we teach important texts, long disappeared into the morass of the “canon,” in such a way that highlights their inherent globality and renders them new?