A Response to Frank Gunter's "Myths About Poverty"

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Professor Frank Gunter’s YouTube video , which was originally posted on the Lehigh College of Business’ official YouTube channel, has genera...

Spring 2021 Teaching: Toni Morrison -- the Art of Storytelling

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Brief Introduction: Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the Nobel-prize winning author of eleven novels and several important works of literary cri...

Thoughts on Brownness Studies (for MLA 2021)

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Below is the text of my talk for MLA 2021: "Critical Brownness Studies." Here are three book titles we could put on the table:  Vi...

A Few Things from 2020: Teaching Notes, Digital Projects; "Survival is Insufficient"

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Obviously, a wild year.  The main thing I am really proud of this year is actually parenting . My work as a professor -- teaching, advising,...

#MyNameIs as a Return to Identity Work: #Hashtag Activism in 2020

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[ I've been compiling a small collection of Tweets using the #MyNameIs hashtag. The following are some preliminary reflections on what I...

#MyNameIs Compilation; Twitter Developers API for dummies

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I applied to get "Developer" privileges to be able to access the Twitter API, after realizing that Twitter does not allow public s...

Announcing: a Digital Edition of the Poems of Henry Derozio

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I've been happy to collaborate with Professor Manu Samriti Chander on a digital edition of the poems of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio , the...

Fall Teaching: "Decolonizing (Digital) Humanities"

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

Text Corpus: Colonial South Asian Literature

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Recently, I announced a Text Corpus I had put together, of African American Literature from 1853-1923.  I've also been putting together ...

Text Processing with Regular Expressions (RegEx): a Digital Humanities Work-Flow for Beginners (no coding)

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I wrote up the following as a primer for the students in my Digital Humanities seminar in 2020; updated in Spring 2025. If you have favorite...

Announcing An Open-Access African-American Literature Corpus, 1853-1929

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Announcing: an Open-Access African American Literature Corpus, 1853-1929 Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University. On Twitter @electrostani J...

"Some Have Happiness Thrust Upon Them": Playing With "Twelfth Night" in "A Suitable Boy" (2/2)

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(Part 2 in a Series. See part 1 here . Mira Nair's adaptation of A Suitable Boy debuts on BBC One in the UK on 7/26; the U.S. broadcas...

Revisiting "A Suitable Boy" in 2020 (1/2)

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I'm excited about Mira Nair's six-part adaptation of Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, which will be premiering on BBC One and Ne...

Postcolonial Ecocriticism: A Preliminary Reading List

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Two things motivate me in this blog post: first, I put together a small unit on postcolonial ecocriticism last fall in my Modernism/Postcol...

South Asian Modernism: in Blog Posts

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I recently chaired a panel at the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) on South Asian Modernisms, with three wonderful scholars whose work w...