Amardeep Singh

I was recently at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Chicago. I've been going to the conference on and off for many years (...

[Updated January 2022]  I'm teaching a grad seminar on Digital Humanities this fall.  I'm structuring most of the hands-on work arou...

This essay is a sequel of sorts to an earlier blog post essay I wrote a few years ago, introducing Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism fo...

I have been reading and reveling in Teju Cole's new collection of essays,  Known and Strange Things , over the past week. Many of the ...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed has already put up some stories about MLA 2013, including this article covering the growing attention payed to ...

So: Das Racist has split up . I have mixed feelings about it. As an Indian American kid raised on hip hop in the 1980s and 90s, I was for...

A few years ago, when I was going up for tenure at Lehigh, I did a blog post compiling links to several postcolonial studies journals  I was...

A little while ago I did a long post on the concept of 'hybridity' , hoping to provide a resource useful for people who teach on thi...

For the past few years I've been posting the program of the annual South Asian Literary Association conference here. I won't be at t...

This post is partly inspired by Tim Burke's recent post , asking why more web-oriented academics don't post drafts of their syllabi ...

Though I've often disagreed with Fareed Zakaria on specific policy questions, I've always been challenged and interested by his way ...

I've had Dora Ahmad's anthology, Rotten English on the shelf for some months, but didn't get around to reading the introduction...

On Video.google, the BBC has itself posted a complete one-hour documentary, exposing the 19th-century British practice of Indentured Labour,...