Jaspal Singh
Associate Professor
B.A.and M.A., University of Dehli and Agra University
M.A., Oregon State University
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Oregon
jsingh@nmu.edu
Teaching Specialties
- Colonial and Postcolonial Theory and Literature
- Literatures of Africa, South Asia (including Burma), and the Caribbean
- Feminist Literature and Theory
- Asian American and African American Literature
Jaspal Kaur Singh received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in Comparative Literature. Her research focused on postcolonial South Asian and African literature and theory. She is the author of
Representation and Resistance: Indian and African Women’s Texts at Home and in the Diaspora (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008),
Comparative Diasporic Poetics in the Literature of Transnational Indian Writers (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, forthcoming 2009),
Trauma, Resistance, Reconciliation in Post-1994 South African Writing (New York, Peter Lang Publishers, forthcoming 2010). She also published critical articles (selected) and creative work in
Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Culture;
Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Source Book;
Michigan Academician;
India in Africa, Africa in India;
Rethinking Modernity: South Asian Review: Globalization and Diaspora;
In Other Words;
The OffBeat: A Literary Journal;
Tracing an Indian Diaspora;
Dreadlocks Interrupted: A Literary Journal of Literature and Language;
Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory; and
Journal of Contemporary Thought. Her current project includes a book tentatively titled,
Gendering Nations: The Construction of Sikh Homelands in Indian and Diasporic Imaginations.
