Amardeep Singh

English 386: Spring 2024Black Mirrors: Science Fiction, AI, and EthicsInstructor: Professor Amardeep Singh (“Deep”)Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:10-1:25 (Drown 019)This course will survey 20th- ...

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1. I got a grant. Last year, the most interesting news for me was probably the grant I am a part of, "Responsible Datasets in Context." The grant is split between five different univers...

http://www.electrostani.com/2024/01/scholarly-activities-2023-in-review.html

I'm giving a talk at this year's MLA Conference on a roundtable on "Banned Books." Below is the text of my presentation.  Title: "What Would Toni Morrison Say? Censorship in the 2020s"&...

http://www.electrostani.com/2024/01/what-would-toni-morrison-say-censorship.html

I'm doing a guest lecture at Germantown Friends School this week. Here are my slides for the event. 

http://www.electrostani.com/2023/11/slides-claude-mckay-diasporic-writer-in.html

Susan Stanford Friedman passed away this past spring at the age of 79. She was an inspiring figure and I considered her a friend and mentor, particularly in my work on modernism in South Asia. If...

http://www.electrostani.com/2023/10/in-honor-of-susan-stanford-friedman.html

I did a face-to-face guest lecture for a film class at Rutgers in October. 

http://www.electrostani.com/2023/10/slides-on-salaam-bombay-for-guest.html

Some Basic Background about India’s Indigenous (Adivasi) CommunitiesI have long been interested in the amazing project, Native-Land.ca, which shows approximate maps of indigenous communities, m...

http://www.electrostani.com/2023/08/mapping-indias-indigenous-adivasi.html

The map above was generated using Google Maps, based on a dataset that originated with Dorothy Porter's 1945 Checklist of African American poetry (1760-1944). In my own adaptation of checklist, I...

http://www.electrostani.com/2023/06/mapping-african-american-poetry-1850.html

Context and Method: In 1916, Arthur Schomburg published a short volume called A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry (available at HathiTrust and Archi...

http://www.electrostani.com/2023/06/exploring-new-dataset-african-american.html

 “Can the Subaltern Speak?” in Plain English: an Explainer for Teachers and Students“Clearly, if you are poor, black, and female you get it in three ways.” –Gayatri Spivak“White ...

http://www.electrostani.com/2023/03/can-subaltern-speak-in-plain-english.html

This spring I'm co-teaching a graduate seminar on Theories of Literature and Social Justice with my colleague Seth Moglen. We designed a new version of the syllabus that takes advantage of our re...

http://www.electrostani.com/2023/03/spring-teaching-theories-of-literature.html

Publications1. I have a chapter in the collection Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India. The table of contents for the book is here. It builds on my digital edition of Henry Derozio's...

http://www.electrostani.com/2023/01/scholarly-activities-2022-in-review.html

 A lot of folks in my networks have been chatting about OpenAI / ChatGPT -- the latest GPT-3 release. Based on the examples I've been seeing, the coherence level has increased dramatically f...

http://www.electrostani.com/2022/12/playing-with-chat-gpt-openai-write-paper.html

These are from lecture notes for a course I regularly teach called Global Cinema. -AS Key Terms and Ideas:Global SouthDeveloping WorldPostcolonial worldThird WorldNational CinemaStar Sytem / Cele...

http://www.electrostani.com/2022/10/global-cinema-notes-introducing-key.html

The theme of the Modernist Studies Association annual conference this year (happening next week) is "Making Modernism: 1922 100 Years On."  I am not going to be in Portland this year, but I ...

http://www.electrostani.com/2022/10/1922-year-in-african-american-poetry.html

I've organized a seminar for the NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) conference that is coming up next week in Bethlehem. The seminar is called "Thinking Justice Across the Imper...

http://www.electrostani.com/2022/09/for-navsa-seminar-thinking-justice.html

This year I've been working on what's turned out to be a rather large and unwieldy digital archive project, something I'm calling an Anthology of African American Poetry, 1870-1926. I started the...

http://www.electrostani.com/2022/08/summer-research-journal-african.html

This panel came together in part because of some recent controversies on Lehigh’s campus, some of which were visible and received media coverage, while others were happening a bit more behind t...

http://www.electrostani.com/2022/02/on-academic-freedom-and-civility.html

Below are a few books I read in 2021, with some very brief annotations. 2021 was a year when I rediscovered my joy in reading genre fiction -- especially science fiction, mystery/detective f...

http://www.electrostani.com/2022/01/2021-few-books-i-read-for-pleasure-and.html

Below are some comments on my digital editing projects that I prepared for a Modernist Editing panel sponsored by the University of Glasgow and NYIT. What inspired your project and what would you...

http://www.electrostani.com/2021/12/comments-for-modernist-editing-panel.html

It's not quite done yet, but it nevertheless seems like a good time to announce a project I've been working on with the help of a graduate research assistant and an internal faculty research gran...

http://www.electrostani.com/2021/09/toni-morrison-teaching-and-learning.html

 It's no secret that nations in the Global South are on the front lines of climate change, especially with respect to access to food and clean water, exposure to dangerous storms and floodin...

http://www.electrostani.com/2021/09/fall-2021-teaching-postcolonial.html

Professor Frank Gunter’s YouTube video, which was originally posted on the Lehigh College of Business’ official YouTube channel, has generated considerable debate, especially among Lehigh’s...

http://www.electrostani.com/2021/02/a-response-to-frank-gunters-myths-about.html

Brief Introduction: Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the Nobel-prize winning author of eleven novels and several important works of literary criticism. This course will be a deep dive into her life a...

http://www.electrostani.com/2021/02/spring-2021-teaching-toni-morrison-art.html

Below is the text of my talk for MLA 2021: "Critical Brownness Studies." Here are three book titles we could put on the table: Vijay Prashad’s The Karma of Brown Folk (2000), E.J.R. D...

http://www.electrostani.com/2021/01/thoughts-on-brownness-studies-for-mla.html