B. Venkat Mani researches and teaches migration: of human beings and forms of refuge and exile, and migration of ideas through libraries, books, and digital media. He is the author of Cosmopolitical Claims (2007) and Recoding World Literature (2017) and co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature (2018). He is currently working on a new project on migrants, refugees, and “the right to read.” His research has been funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, among others. His teaching has been recognized through several student nominated awards. He thinks of research and teaching as inseparable, and strongly believes that he could not have won the Kellett Award without the amazing students at UW-Madison who are never shy of asking tough questions. Here he is with the students of his course on “Migration in Literature, Film, and Music” (Spring 2017).