Harleen Singh

Title

Helaine and Alvin Allen Assistant Professor of Literature

Comparative Literature
German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
International and Global Studies
South Asian Studies
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

Colonial and Postcolonial Theory and Literature. 19th and 20th century British and South Asian Literature. Immigrant Writing - British, Caribbean, United States. Gender and Women's Studies. Film Studies. South Asian Studies

Profile

Courses: South Asian Women Writers, Gender and Representation in the Colonial Archives, The Postcolonial Novel, Writing Home and Abroad: Literature by Women of Color, We Who are at Home Everywhere: Narratives of the South Asian Diaspora, Indian Cinema: The Three Hour Dream, Introduction to South Asian Studies

Degrees

University of California, San Diego, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego, M.A.

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Contact

Email:	harleen@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-8485
Office:	Mandel Center for the Humanities, 114

Awards and Honors

Theodore and Jane Norman Award for Faculty Scholarship (2011)

Helaine and Alvin Allen Chair in Literature (2008)

Theodore and Jane Norman Award for Faculty Scholarship (2008)

Center for German and European Studies Travel Grant (2007)

Theodore and Jane Norman Award for Faculty Scholarship (2006)

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender and Postcolonial Studies (2003 - 2005)

University of California Faculty Fellowship (2002 - 2003)

Courses Taught

COML	122b	Writing Home and Abroad: Literature by Women of Color
SAS	100a	Introduction to South Asia
SAS	110b	South Asian Postcolonial Writers
SAS	130a	Film and Fiction of Crisis
SAS	140a	We Who Are at Home Everywhere: Narratives from the South Asian Diaspora
SAS	150b	Indian Film: The Three-Hour Dream
SAS	170b	South Asia in the Colonial Archive
WMGS	5a	Women and Gender in Culture and Society
WMGS	198a	Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar
WMGS	205a	Graduate Foundational Course in Women's and Gender Studies

Scholarship

Singh, Harleen. "Unsettling the Archive: Reframing Gender and History in Mahasweta Devi's The Queen of Jhansi." Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Special Issue: Caste, Gender and Sexuality in Asia 35 (2013). (forthcoming)

Singh, Harleen. The Public Life of Rani Lakshmi Bai: Gender, Nation, History, and Fable. 1 ed. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 2013. (forthcoming)

Singh, Harleen. "Cultures of Music." Rev. of Bhangra Moves: From Ludhiana to London and Beyond, South Asian Diaspora vol. 5, No. 2 September 2013: 1-2.

Singh, Harleen. "Music and its Others." Rev. of Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness, by Nitasha Tamar Sharma. South Asian Diaspora vol. Vol. 5, No. 2, September 2013: 1-2.

Singh, Harleen. "Citizens of the World." Rev. of New Cosmopolitanisms, South Asians in the U.S., by Gita Rajan and Shailja Sharma. South Asian Diaspora vol. 4 No. 1 2012: 111-112.

Singh, Harleen. "Insurgent Metaphors: Decentering 9/11 in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 43. 1 (2012): 23-44.

Singh, Harleen. "While We Were Making History." Rev. of Making a Difference: Memoirs from the Women's Movement in India, by Edited by Ritu Menon. BIBLIO: A Review of Books vol. XVII of 3 & 4 March-April 2012: 21.

Singh, Harleen. "A Legacy of Violence: Interview with Kamila Shamsie about Burnt Shadows (2009)." Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 42. 2 (2011): 157-162.

Singh, Harleen. "Beyond the Tragic." Rev. of Room, by Emma Donoghue. Biblio: A Review of Books vol. XV of 11&12 November-December 2010: 10.

Singh, Harleen. "Deconstructing Terror: Interview with Mohsin Hamid on The Reluctant Fundamentalist." Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 42. 2 (2011): 149-156.

Singh, Harleen. "The Gendered Pen." Rev. of Leela's Book, by Alice Albinia. Biblio: A Review of Books vol. XVI. Nos. 7 & 8 July-August 2011: 15-16.

Singh, Harleen. "In the service of his sexuality." Rev. of A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster, by Wendy Moffat. Memoirs and Biography, Special Issue of Biblio: A Review of Books vol. XV of 7&8 July-August 2010: 8-9.

Singh, Harleen. "Jhansi ki Rani: Translating Rani Lakshmi Bai by Vrindavanlal Varma." Nationalism in the Vernacular: Hindi, Urdu, and the Literature of Indian Freedom. first ed. Ed. Shobna Nijhawan. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2010. 35-65.

Singh, Harleen. "Tur(Banned) Masculinities: Terrorists, Sikhs, and Trauma in Indian Cinema." Sikh Formations 2. 2 (2006): 115-124.

Singh, Harleen. "Acceptance and Identity." Rev. of The Impressionist, by Hari Kunzru. Globalization and Diaspora: Special Issue of the South Asian Review vol. 24:1 2003: 180-182.

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