Amardeep Singh

I teach at Lehigh University in eastern Pennsylvania. I work on British colonialism, modernism, postcolonial/global literature, and the digital humanities.

Monday, October 18, 2004

They've outdone themselves: Dishoom

Badmash's latest, a U.S. election satire with some surrealist desi in-jokes thrown in.

Probably the best one they've ever done.

Posted by Amardeep Singh at 1:47 PM

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Amardeep Singh, Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University
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My book, Diaspora Vérité: The Films of Mira Nair, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2018, is now available on Amazon.

I have been working on several digital projects in Scalar. All are in progress as of January 2019. One is digital archive I am calling "The Kiplings and India." Working with a team of graduate research assistants, we have been building the site in Scalar here. Feedback welcome; it's a work in progress.

I have also been working on a Digital Collection called "Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1912-1922)" This project began as a collaborative class project called "Harlem Echoes," a digital edition of Claude McKay's "Harlem Shadows." The new version of the project is much-expanded, including McKay's early Jamaican poetry as well as his uncollected political poetry from magazines like The Liberator and Workers Dreadnought.

I also put together a digital edition of Jean Toomer's Cane, taking advantage of the fact that that work is now in the public domain. That project can be found here.

Finally, I have begun a new project, "Women of the Early Harlem Renaissance (1900-1922)", featuring writing by largely overlooked African-American women writers like Georgia Douglas Johnson and Carrie Williams Clifford.

Selected Posts

Recent Teaching

"Writing Empire"
Multimodal Composition
Religion and Literature
Beyond Bollywood
Immigrants and Refugees
DH Teaching: Claude McKay
Intro to DH
"What Am I Doing Here?"
Asian American Literature
Writing for the Internet
Transatlantic Modernism

Literature, Language, Criticism

The Classroom is a Public
Teju Cole's essays
The Archive Gap
Mimicry and Hybridity
"A Night in London
Teaching Notes: "Ulysses"
The White Tiger
Punjabi Literature Conference
"Rotten English"
Pandita Ramabai's book on America
Dean Mahomet
Ismat Chughtai
Khushwant Singh's Journalism
Saadat Hasan Manto's "Letters to Uncle Sam
Ramo Samee, Thackeray, Hazlitt
Sultana's Dream, Feminist Utopias
Early Bengali Science Fiction
Auden and China
Auden and Bruegel vs. Icarus
India-Oriented Works at Gutenberg
Texture Words
Teaching: Travel Writers
In Praise of Balderdash (and other words for nonsense)
All About H. Hatterr
Versions of the Ramayana
Tagore in America(Sepia Mutiny)
Challenges to Postcolonial Theory (Valve) A Lecture on Literature
Intro to Said
Borges and India

Politics, Culture, Academia

Being Sikh in America (NYT)
Ethnic Slurs and College Life
On Malcolm X
On Sepia Mutiny
My Life, Not in Middlemarch
"American Dervish"
Thoughts on Turning 40
Introduction to Edward Said
Subcontinental Scripts
Secular Constitutions: U.S. and India
Background on Communalism

Music, Film, Art, Etc.

Mira Nair: The Perez Family
Documentary: I For India
King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan
Omkara and Othello
15 Park Avenue
Myrna Loy Goes To India
8 Things About Bollywood
The Ideology of Sarkar
Parineeta
Ashes & Snow
Maqbool
Yuva
Murder and Kandukondein
Professor/DJ
Peck on the Cheek (2003)
Spirited Away (2002)

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Amardeep Singh: I teach 20th century literature in English at Lehigh University.

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