The Films of Mira Nair: Cinema Vérité. Published by University Press of Mississippi, 2018.
Excerpt from a chapter: on Mississippi Masala
Slideshow/Introductory YouTube video
Reviewed in Film Quarterly, South Asian Review, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, Times Higher Ed
Excerpts:
Chapter 2: On Benjamin Disraeli, Daniel Deronda and Victorian Proto-Zionism
Chapter 8: Literary Secularism After 9/11: Philip Roth's Plot Against America, Orhan Pamuk's Snow, and Edward Said
Essays: Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Reference Encyclopedia Entries
"African American Poetry of World War I" (completed, under submission to an anthology as of November 2025).
Tags: African American Literature, #DH, Modernism, Poetry
"'Brown Skin' Beauty and Black Identity in the Harlem Renaissance." (completed, under submission to a journal as of November 2025)
Tags: African American Literature, Poetry, Modernism, Critical Race Theory
“Frances E.W. Harper’s Afropessimist Poetics.” Book chapter in a volume edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Sherita Johnson of Penn State University. For the University of Pennsylvania Press. (Date of publication, 2026)
Tags: African American Literature, Poetry, 19th Century Literature, American Literature, Critical Race Theory
Tags: #DH, African American Literature, Poetry, Archives
“Amputate the Problem, Band-aid the Solution: Censoring Toni Morrison.” Chapter in Sam Cohen, Ed. Banning Books in America: Not a How-To. Bloomsbury, Forthcoming February 2026.
Tags: African American Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Censorship
"The Modernist Archive Gap: Black Writers and Canonicity in the Digital Era." In Jamie Callison, Ed. Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives. Bloomsbury Press, 2024.
Tags: Modernism, Archives, African American Literature, #DH
"Catachresis at the Origin: Names and Power in Toni Morrison's Fiction.” South Central Review 41:1, Spring 2024, pp. 28-45.
Tags: African American Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Postcolonial Theory
“Untranslatable Authorship: Positioning Yeats' "Preface" and the Poetry of Tagore.” Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-Visioning, 2022
Tags: Modernism, South Asian Literature, Irish Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Poststructuralist Theory
Digitizing Derozio: Exploring Intertexts to English Romanticism in the Collected Poems of Henry Derozio Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India, Routledge, 2022
Tags: #DH, Archives, Romantic Poetry, Poetry, South Asian Literature
“Diasporic Crosscurrents: Gurinder Chadha and Mira Nair’s Early Documentaries.” (Alternative link here) In Shilpa Bhat, Ed. Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurdinder Chadha. New York: Lexington Books, 2022.
Tags: Film Studies, South Asian Diaspora, Documentary Film
"Beyond the Archive Gap: The Kiplings and the Famines of British Colonial India" South Asian Review, 2018.
Also printed in South Asian Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2020)
Tags: Archives, #DH, South Asian Literature, Victorian Studies, Colonialism, Empire
“Claude McKay’s Workers Dreadnought Poetry.” The Space Between, Volume 16. 2020.
Available online: https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol16_2020_singh_mckay_intro
Tags: Archives, #DH, African American Literature, Caribbean, Modernism
"Visualizing the Uplift: Digitizing Poetry By African American Women, 1900-1922" Feminist Modernist Studies, 2018.
Tags: African American Literature, #DH, Archives
“From Decolonization to the Decolonial: a Bridge Essay.” A Companion to World Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.
Also Reprinted in A Concise Companion to World Literature, Wiley-Blackwell, 2025.
Tags: Postcolonial Theory, Decolonial Theory
“The Indian Novel in the Twenty-First Century.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2017
Tags: South Asian Literature, Contemporary Literature
“Postcolonial Studies.” Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. 2016.
Tags: Postcolonial Theory
‘The Easier Death’: Saadat Hasan Manto and the Ghost of Partition in Tabish Khair’s Filming. In Om Dwivedi and Cristina M. Gamez Fernandez, Eds. Tabish Khair: Critical Perspectives. Newcastle-upon-tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014.
Tags: Modernism, South Asian Literature, Film Studies
“Modernism and Progressivism in South Asian Fiction, 1933-1970.” Published in Literature Compass, 2010.
Tags: Modernism, South Asian Literature
"Veiled Strangers: Rabindranath Tagore’s America, in Letters and Lectures." Journeys: The International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing, 10:1, 2009.
"Animating a Postmodern Ramayana: Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues" South Asian Review, December 2009.
"More than 'Priestly Mumbo-Jumbo': Religion and Authorship in All About H. Hatterr." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, December 2009.
”Names Can Wait: Mis-naming the South Asian Diaspora.” South Asian Review, 28:1 2007 [2008].
Re-Orienting Forster: Intimacy and Islamic Space.” Criticism: A Quarterly, Winter 2007. [PROJECT MUSE]
Republics of the Imagination: Afghan and Iranian Expatriate Narratives.” Minnesota Review 68, 2007.
“Anonymity, Authorship, and Blogger Ethics.” Symploke 16:1-2, 2008.
The Lifting and the Lifted: Prefaces to Colonial Modernist Texts.” Wasafiri 47, Spring 2006, 1-10.
(Older publications omitted)