What does “English” mean now?’ This is the question with which the new editorial team of this journal opened up their Editorial in 2016 in a volume (no. 65) that expressed the team’s dedication to considering the multiplicity of voices and viewpoints produced by English as a ‘global discipline’. The invitation to contribute to the series of pieces inaugurated in that issue under the title ‘The View from Here’ has been an opportunity for me to reflect on my own position as a teacher of English literature on the island of Cyprus.