tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66296642024-03-17T01:51:56.909-05:00Amardeep SinghPostcolonial/Global literature and film, Modernism, African American literature, and the Digital Humanities. Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comBlogger1358125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-27549865104461846252024-02-27T11:53:00.003-05:002024-02-27T19:21:01.684-05:00Generative AI and the Future of Writing: a Few MeditationsThere's considerable excitement about generative AI in humanities academia at the moment, with the launching of a new Duke University Press-hosted journal, Critical AI, and a new dedicated grant from the NEH on Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence. In some ways, the buzz over generative AI seems comparable to the buzz a decade ago over Digital Humanities, which brought Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-58335732706924822082024-01-22T20:08:00.006-05:002024-01-22T20:09:50.823-05:00Spring 2024 Teaching: New Course on AI, Science Fiction w/ a hands-on elementEnglish 386: Spring 2024Black Mirrors: Science Fiction, AI, and EthicsInstructor: Professor Amardeep Singh (“Deep”)Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:10-1:25 (Drown 019)This course will survey 20th- and 21st-century science fiction and film with an emphasis on representations of Artificial Intelligence. Though many think of this as a topic especially relevant to the present moment, in fact, writers and Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-74866353257981494122024-01-10T15:17:00.006-05:002024-01-20T08:08:34.063-05:00Scholarly Activities: 2023 in Review1.I got a grant. Last year, the most interesting news for me was probably the grant I am a part of, "Responsible Datasets in Context." The grant is split between five different universities and is funded by the Mozilla Foundation. The total grant award is $150,000, of which Lehigh University will be getting around $25,000. The lead PI on the grant is Melanie Walsh of the University of Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-40162793489977536882024-01-03T17:30:00.013-05:002024-01-13T07:59:06.059-05:00What Would Toni Morrison Say? Censorship in the 2020s (for MLA 2024)I'm giving a talk at this year's MLA Conference on a roundtable on "Banned Books." Below is the text of my presentation. Title: "What Would Toni Morrison Say? Censorship in the 2020s" The most commonly censored speakers and writers in the U.S. are people from marginalized groups whose voices and arguments threaten state authority or the status quo. Books by Toni Morrison, Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-89450180306852083422023-11-07T10:20:00.006-05:002023-11-07T10:21:59.892-05:00Slides: Claude McKay -- a Diasporic Writer in the Harlem RenaissanceI'm doing a guest lecture at Germantown Friends School this week. Here are my slides for the event. Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-26624442920783950642023-10-22T07:32:00.003-05:002023-10-25T09:24:46.808-05:00In Honor of Susan Stanford FriedmanSusan Stanford Friedman passed away this past spring at the age of 79. She was an inspiring figure and I considered her a friend and mentor, particularly in my work on modernism in South Asia. If you're unfamiliar with her career, a look at this brief obituary at the University of Wisconsin might be a place to start. I'll be speaking at a roundtable at this year's Modernist Studies Association Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-39695880226930844442023-10-09T05:47:00.003-05:002023-11-07T10:22:53.793-05:00Slides on "Salaam Bombay!" for guest lectureI did a face-to-face guest lecture for a film class at Rutgers in October. Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-65995397968945205522023-08-02T13:45:00.004-05:002023-10-29T07:21:39.775-05:00Mapping India’s Indigenous (Adivasi) CommunitiesSome Basic Background about India’s Indigenous (Adivasi) CommunitiesI have long been interested in the amazing project, Native-Land.ca, which shows approximate maps of indigenous communities, mostly in North and South America, but increasingly in other regions, including Australia/New Zealand as well as Taiwan. I've been curious about the prospect of having them add indigenous communities in Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-81417623385401607402023-06-17T08:27:00.004-05:002023-06-17T12:33:37.627-05:00Mapping African American Poetry, 1850-1944
The map above was generated using Google Maps, based on a dataset that originated with Dorothy Porter's 1945 Checklist of African American poetry (1760-1944). In my own adaptation of checklist, I removed materials that were pre-1850, and also attempted to clean up any omissions from Porter's original list related to publication date, publisher, and location. For more on the dataset, see my Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-33712994667880613972023-06-15T10:42:00.008-05:002023-06-17T07:39:56.802-05:00Exploring a New Dataset (African American Poetry Books by Decade)Context and Method: In 1916, Arthur Schomburg published a short volume called A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry (available at HathiTrust and Archive.org). It was a list of essentially every published book he could find by Black poets in the U.S., but also the Hispanophone and Francophone Caribbean. (Schomburg, as most readers will know, was himselfAmardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-80782088678354734262023-03-14T10:32:00.020-05:002023-06-12T09:22:58.737-05:00"Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Plain English: an Explainer “Can the Subaltern Speak?” in Plain English: an Explainer for Teachers and Students“Clearly, if you are poor, black, and female you get it in three ways.” –Gayatri Spivak“White men are saving brown women from brown men...” –Gayatri Spivak “The subaltern cannot speak. There is no virtue in global laundry lists with "woman" as a pious item. Representation has not withered away. The Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-15078117741476665422023-03-04T11:09:00.003-05:002023-03-04T11:09:48.698-05:00Spring Teaching: "Theories of Literature and Social Justice"This spring I'm co-teaching a graduate seminar on Theories of Literature and Social Justice with my colleague Seth Moglen. We designed a new version of the syllabus that takes advantage of our respective areas of expertise. Below is the bare-bones version of the document. THEORIES OF LITERATURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICEREQUIRED TEXTSGloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)JAmardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-36415909487666673132023-01-13T12:27:00.002-05:002023-01-13T13:57:29.178-05:00Scholarly activities -- 2022 in ReviewPublications1. I have a chapter in the collection Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India. The table of contents for the book is here. It builds on my digital edition of Henry Derozio's writing. The title of the chapter is "Digitizing Derozio: Mapping the Local and the Global Contexts of an Anglo-Indian Poet." 2. My chapter on Tagore and Yeats was finally published in June 2022. Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-1583072179871136382022-12-03T17:33:00.003-05:002022-12-03T17:33:51.963-05:00Playing with Chat GPT (OpenAI): Write a paper... A lot of folks in my networks have been chatting about OpenAI / ChatGPT -- the latest GPT-3 release. Based on the examples I've been seeing, the coherence level has increased dramatically from previous releases, such that I probably wouldn't be able to distinguish a paper that was substantially written by an AI if a student were to submit it. Here, for instance is the entirety of the Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-56063787673241245802022-10-24T11:39:00.005-05:002022-10-24T12:01:29.628-05:00Global Cinema: Notes (Introducing Key Terms)These are from lecture notes for a course I regularly teach called Global Cinema. -AS
Key Terms and Ideas:Global SouthDeveloping WorldPostcolonial worldThird WorldNational CinemaStar Sytem / Celebrity Culture: Connected to National CinemaAcademy Awards as a branch of the American National Cinema I should start with a disclaimer: the terminology we’ll be using is an art, not a science.To Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-56443305943027109152022-10-22T07:49:00.011-05:002022-10-26T20:47:51.188-05:001922: The Year in African American PoetryThe theme of the Modernist Studies Association annual conference this year (happening next week) is "Making Modernism: 1922 100 Years On." I am not going to be in Portland this year, but I did have some thoughts to share on the topic of 1922; perhaps the post below is the conference talk I would be giving if I were there.1922 is an apt topic, though it seems important to flag that to a Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-10725258759341086512022-09-24T08:38:00.011-05:002022-10-24T12:02:17.020-05:00For NAVSA Seminar: "Thinking Justice Across the Imperial Divide: Narrating Anglo-India"I've organized a seminar for the NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) conference that is coming up next week in Bethlehem. The seminar is called "Thinking Justice Across the Imperial Divide: Narrating Anglo-India." I've asked participants to briefly introduce their research interests in the topic; below is my own account. * * * I wasn’t trained primarily as a Victorianist – and Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-55858575685696912542022-08-11T14:03:00.003-05:002022-10-24T12:02:52.048-05:00Summer Research Journal: African American Poetry 1870-1926This year I've been working on what's turned out to be a rather large and unwieldy digital archive project, something I'm calling an Anthology of African American Poetry, 1870-1926. I started the project back in early January, and I've spent a good chunk of the summer of 2022 working on it as well. Why do this? First, I thought it might be useful to scholars and researchers to put all of Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-70452334298264895662022-02-16T18:31:00.009-05:002022-02-16T18:31:45.794-05:00On Academic Freedom and Civility -- introducing a Lehigh Faculty Forum event (2/16/22)This panel came together in part because of some recent controversies on Lehigh’s campus, some of which were visible and received media coverage, while others were happening a bit more behind the scenes.The controversies are actually nothing to be embarrassed about; I tend to think they serve as learning opportunities, both for students and for us as faculty. What do we really think about Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-19486007423230149982022-01-04T11:23:00.006-05:002022-10-24T10:02:24.106-05:002021: A Few Books I Read for Pleasure and WorkBelow are a few books I read in 2021, with some very brief annotations. 2021 was a year when I rediscovered my joy in reading genre fiction -- especially science fiction, mystery/detective fiction, and fantasy. The pleasure reading got me through some fairly dark and difficult stretches, especially the gloom and boredom of the 'Delta' and 'Omicron' waves... People who have known me for a Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-54893778102642156142021-12-08T09:29:00.000-05:002022-10-24T10:03:05.813-05:00Comments for Modernist Editing Panel: 12/8/2021Below are some comments on my digital editing projects that I prepared for a Modernist Editing panel sponsored by the University of Glasgow and NYIT. What inspired your project and what would you like to change in or add to it in the future?https://scalar.lehigh.edu/harlemwomen/indexhttps://scalar.lehigh.edu/mckay/indexI’ll start by mentioning two digital editing projects I’ve done in the early Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-44314868307264492632021-09-17T12:45:00.004-05:002021-09-17T13:26:44.133-05:00Toni Morrison: a Teaching and Learning Resource CollectionIt's not quite done yet, but it nevertheless seems like a good time to announce a project I've been working on with the help of a graduate research assistant and an internal faculty research grant. Toni Morrison: a Teaching and Learning Resource Collection In brief, this is an open-access web resource that collects materials that might be helpful to people teaching or studying Toni Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-25682372403575048592021-09-03T07:33:00.004-05:002021-09-03T08:02:01.747-05:00Fall 2021 Teaching: "Postcolonial Ecocriticism" [This is a new graduate-level course I'm trying this fall.] It's no secret that nations
in the Global South are on the front lines of climate change, especially with
respect to access to food and clean water, exposure to dangerous storms and
flooding, and the threat of associated civil unrest. Inequities between rich
and poor countries are likely to exacerbate climate change harms in ways Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-33407663246069766562021-02-09T12:11:00.010-05:002021-02-09T18:15:29.287-05:00A Response to Frank Gunter's "Myths About Poverty" Professor Frank Gunter’s YouTube video, which was originally posted on the Lehigh College of Business’ official YouTube channel, has generated considerable debate, especially among Lehigh’s student body. (Get the full background, including a sampling of reactions, by reading this Brown and White story)Responding to the controversy, Prof. Gunter says, “Attack my data, attack my analysis, but Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629664.post-9932395803317537582021-02-01T09:42:00.003-05:002021-02-01T09:57:34.011-05:00Spring 2021 Teaching: Toni Morrison -- the Art of StorytellingBrief Introduction: Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the Nobel-prize winning author of eleven novels and several important works of literary criticism. This course will be a deep dive into her life and career, starting with her earliest novel (The Bluest Eye) and continuing through her later career. We'll study the evolution of Morrison's style and thematic interests, and consider whether Morrison's Amardeep Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408720639556886665noreply@blogger.com