Amardeep Singh

"Just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." --Toni Morrison

Two Conferences: Toni Morrison (Cornell) and Frances E.W. Harper (Penn State)

›
I attended two conferences this past weekend, the Toni Morrison conference at Cornell, celebrating 70 years of Morrison's graduating wit...

New Project: Adivasi Writers: An Introduction to India's Indigenous Literature

›
This summer, I've been working with a graduate student collaborator, Srishti Raj, on a new digital project, called Adivasi Writers: An I...

Mira Nair, Mahmood Mamdani, and "Mississippi Masala" (book chapter excerpt)

›
In honor of Zohran Mamdani's victory in the NYC mayoral primary, I'm posting the following chapter excerpt is from my 2018 book on M...

Slides for The Space Between Conference: "African American Poetry of World War I"

›
  I'm giving a talk at The Space Between conference at KU in Lawrence, Kansas this week. The talk is built around a section of "Afr...

Slides for ALA Conference 2025: The Boston Branch of the Harlem Renaissance

›
I'm giving a talk at this year's American Literature Association Conference in Boston, for a panel celebrating "100 Years of th...

Teaching Notes: "The God of Small Things" General Overview and Context

›
Briefly Introducing Arundhati Roy and The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy is one of the most successful Indian writers in English of all t...

Syllabus: Digital Humanities Grad Course, Spring 2025

›
I taught a DH class with twelve graduate students this spring. It was my first time teaching DH since fall 2020 , and a lot has changed in t...

Humanities AI in 2025: Brief Reflections After a Conference

›
I’ll try and keep these reflections brief. There were maybe three threads I was following at the recent Humanities AI conference at Lehigh:...

Slides for Humanities AI Conference: AI and the Future of Creative Writing

›
I gave a talk at the Humanities AI conference at Lehigh on Saturday April 25. The talk was based on experiences and observations from my Sp...

Slides on Claude McKay: Digital Collections and Diasporic Itineraries (Presentation at Lehigh)

›
Giving a presentation at Lehigh on March 27, surveying some recent digital projects and introducing the idea of Claude McKay as a diasporic ...

Slides for SALA Conference 2025: "Adivasi" as Catachresis

›
 

MLA 2025: What I Saw

›
As everyone reading this has surely heard, the big drama at the MLA this year was the Executive Council's decision not to allow the Dele...

Slides for MLA 2025: Responsible Datasets in Context--African American Periodical Poetry

›
I'm on session 385 at the MLA this year, with my collaborators on the "Responsible Datasets in Context" grant I received last ...

Modernist Studies Association 2024: A few notes

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

Turning to Toni Morrison in a Time of Trump

›
Toni Morrison has a short essay called “Racism and Fascism,” an excerpt from a speech she gave at Howard University in 1995. Here is the fir...
›
Home
View web version

About Me

Amardeep Singh
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.