Importance of Elsewhere

Randy Malamud is the Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University and the author of eight books, including Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity and Poetic Animals and Animal Souls. He regularly writes for Salon and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

• Home and AwayRandy Malamud Should I Stay or Should I go?Randy Malamud Travel or Tourism Randy Malamud Fear of FlyingRandy Malamud Travel Reading: Reading TravelRandy Malamud 'The Importance of Elsewhere'Randy Malamud LEEDS: Literary TourismRandy Malamud ŁÓDŹ: Monty Python's Academic CircusRandy Malamud COPENHAGEN: Projecting a Triumphant Queer MomentRandy Malamud LONDON: Sex 2.0Randy Malamud COTTBUS: WeltspiegelRandy Malamud BAGHDAD: Reconstructing Iraqi AcademeRandy Malamud TIERRA DEL FUEGO: Penguins at the End of the WorldRandy Malamud ZAGREB: The Subversive SummitRandy Malamud SZOLNOK: Science and FilmRandy Malamud BERLIN: Gestapo HeadquartersRandy Malamud DUBAI: A Cinematic Door to the Middle EastRandy Malamud WARSAW: The Bores of AcademeRandy Malamud COURMAYEUR: NoirRandy Malamud SVALBARD: Introduction to Arctic StudiesRandy Malamud

'Randy Malamud, a distinguished American professor of English . . . likes to get on planes. He is not a naive tourist but a “travelling humanist”. He might carry a lot of literary baggage, but he travels light. His knowledge informs his tourism. It doesn’t squash it... He recognises the dangers of travel. Planes can carry nasty bacteria to anywhere with an international airport. But Malamud wants to be a carrier of ease rather than disease, transmitting to his readers the way travel can provoke joy, widen our aesthetics and offer a buffet of experiences.'