Increasing numbers of immigrant and expatriate teacher/scholars, worldwide are involved in college and university level teaching and general scholarship in places other than their natal countries/cultures. So also, North Americans and to some extent, Europeans students/scholars who live in their increasingly multicultural cities could find themselves studying, learning and doing research in institutions that increasingly reflect the large influx of overseas professionals and their foreign cultures into these countries. They too may thus have challenging moments and experiences not altogether dissimilar to those experienced by immigrant and expatriate scholars and foreign students. Thus, the classroom, and the research and the publishing fields are, perforce, venues of complex cultural expressions and interchanges. We thus have teachers, researchers, and students carrying on their teaching/studies/research overseas, (or otherwise work at home in increasingly multicultural mega cities and in increasingly multicultural contexts) where they or others speak with accents; dress in manners that identify them with specific foreign cultures or religions; encounter role expectations different than they were used to, feel or find themselves isolated or misunderstood or find dinning or dress etiquettes and entertainment in their new environments unappealing, strange or “difficult” to learn. These cultural and identity issues must affect the teaching/learning, research and publishing processes and careers of the peoples that are involved in those fields.

We therefore wish in this volume to collect together papers that air the problems, challenges, and individual and official reactions to such issues or challenges and, especially, solutions proffered or employed to address them.

If you are interested in contributing a chapter to the proposed book, please submit a 200-word abstract by December 11, 2006 to signify your commitment. Draft chapters are expected by March 1, 2007.