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

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...

Introducing: A Modernism Text Corpus [aka Early 20th Century Literature Corpus]

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I thought it might be worthwhile to create a textual corpus  collecting out-of-copyright materials from a broad range of authors from the ea...

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...

Slides for MSA 2025: Wallace Thurman and Bruce Nugent

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

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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

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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)

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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"

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  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...
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