ATLANTA -- Author Salman Rushdie is expanding his relationship with Emory University.
The Atlanta-based private university announced Wednesday that Rushdie has been named a distinguished professor. He's been a distinguished writer-in-residence at Emory for the last five years, giving an annual lecture and spending a few weeks on campus each spring talking with students and faculty.
His new role means Rushdie will be involved in more classes and be on campus more than once a year.
He donated his literary archive to Emory in 2007.
Rushdie was forced into hiding in England for a decade after the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a 1989 fatwa, or religious edict, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie because of charges that Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" insulted Islam.