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 where she studied 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 (in press, 2008). 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 an anthology, Indian Writers: Transnationalism and Diaspora (under second review).