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

Association for Asian Studies Conference 2026: A Few Highlights and Notes

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I was at the AAS conference in Vancouver over the weekend, to be part of a panel on Colonial Archives and Digital Humanities in South Asia. ...

African American Poetry: Website Updates

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At the end of Black History Month for 2026, I was impressed to see a new high in monthly traffic for the digital collection I edit on Africa...

New Essay in Print: "Banning Toni Morrison"

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I have a short essay in a new Bloomsbury volume just published, Banning Books in America: Not a How-To , edited by Samuel Cohen. Other autho...

South Asian Americans: Time To Toughen Up

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There’s a great research- and reporting-driven opinion essay by Lydia Polgreen in the New York Times   about how Indian Americans have found...

2025: My Year in Books

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1. General Interest Recommendations Arundhati Roy,  Mother Mary Comes to Me.  This was a standout for me this year -- Roy's beautifully ...

2025: Year in Review

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Publications I've had a pretty productive couple of years. Between 2024-2025 I have seven publications either in print or likely to be p...

New Article: "Anthology, Archive, Corpus: the Design and Implications of African American Poetry: a Digital Anthology"

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I have a new essay out in a German journal called Archiv. It summarizes my thought process as I've been developing a large-scale digital...

Slides for NAVSA 2025: British Proto-Zionism, Colonialism, and the Alternatives

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I'm giving a talk at this year's NAVSA conference on a panel called "Victorian Palestine and the Emergence of Zionism." I...

New Essay: "What Zohran Mamdani Learned From His Mother's Films "

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 I have a new short essay in the Pittsburgh Review of Books on Zohran Mamdani as viewed through his mother Mira Nair's films.  The open...

Work in Progress: A Modernism Text Corpus [Early 20th Century Literature Corpus]

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As readers may be aware, I've been periodically creating small, open-access textual corpora, collecting African American literature and ...

Brief Notes: Experimenting with an Agentic AI Browser (Fellou.ai)

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Recently, Alan Liu posted the results of an experiment he did with a new Agentic AI Browser called Fellou.ai . This is not another GenAI ch...

Modernist Studies Association Conference 2025: A Few Notes and Highlights

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I was recently at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Boston. MSA 2025 felt busy and lively, with many panels I wanted to see a...
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