His research and teaching interests include contemporary world literature, postcolonial literature and theory, human rights and /in literature, and globally-networked learning. This spring Dr. Hartwiger is organizing and hosting the International Conference on Human Rights and the Humanities(www.aub.edu.lb/conferences/ichrh) at AUB . He is at work on a book project which centers on the figure of the unhomely in contemporary world literature. Panel: COIL Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities - A First Report from Spring 2012 Courses