Jaspal Kaur Singh

BIOGRAPHY:

Jaspal K Singh, Professor Emerita of English Literature at Northern Michigan University and currently teaches the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University, received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon (1998) and an MFA in Hybrid Genre from Northern Michigan University (2021). She was a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Gender in Africa, James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles (1998-1999). She is the recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award at NMU (2009-2010). In 2012-2013, Jaspal was a Fulbright Teaching and Research Scholar and spent a year in India; her research project focused on the representation of Sikhs in Indian Literature and Culture.

Singh taught grad and undergrad courses on Postcolonial Literature and Studies, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Critical Theory, Asian American Poetry, African American Poetry, Postcolonial African Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Indian Literature and Culture, Burmese Literature and Culture, Turkish Literature and Culture, Asian American Literature and Culture, South Asian Literature and Culture, and Critical Writing and Thinking. She is currently teaching African and Asian literature courses at OSU.

Publications:

Monographs--

Exiles and Pleasures: Taunggyi Dreaming. Forthcoming with Finishing Line Press, 2023.

Violence and Resistance in Sikh Gendered Identity. Routledge, 2020.

Representation and Resistance: Indian and African Women Writers at Home and in the Diaspora. University of Calgary Press, 2008.

Book, co-author:

Narrating the New Nation: South African Indian Writing (with Rajendra Chetty). Peter Lang, 2018.

Anthology, co-editor:

Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey (with Mary Lou O’Neil). Peter Lang, 2016.

Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas (with Rajendra Chetty). Peter Lang Publishers, 2010.

Trauma, Resistance, Reconciliation in Post-1994 South African Writing (with Rajendra Chetty). Peter Lang Publishers, 2010.

Anthology, assistant editor.

Voice On the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now. Northern Michigan University Press, 2011.

Creative Work, Short Story:

“June Winter Days: Durban Shores.” South Asian Review. 29.3 (2008): 266-276.

"Shades of Love: English Toffee." The Offbeat: With Abandon. 8 (2008): 35-49.

"Eternal Moments.” South Asian Review. 27.3 (2007): 41-53.

Creative Work, Poetry:

“Home is the Diasporic.” Videopoem. Hole in the Head Review. Forthcoming June 2021.

“Taunggyi Hullabaloo.” Brilliant Flash Fiction Review Journal. Forthcoming 1 June 2021.

“1966: Burma's Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI).” Harbor Review. Forthcoming June 2021.

"Victoria Fall," South Asian Review, 31 (2013): 21

"Moonless Burmese Nights,” The Offbeat: With Abandon. 8 (2008): 67

"Carolina Farms,” The Offbeat: With Abandon. 8 (2008): 5

"Chicken Curry Nights.” The Offbeat: With Abandon. 8 (2008): 15

"Culver City Gas Station.” The Offbeat: Tell Me Everything 7 (2007): 71.

"Indian Woman: Reflected, Constructed, Real.” Dreadlocks Interrupted! 3 (2006): 34-36.

"Ode to Narinder Virk: Lighter of Spark.” Struggle: Full Rights for Immigrants. 22 (2006): 49-51.

"Indian Woman.” South Asian Review 24.3 (2005): 69-70.

"Two Raindrops.” South Asian Review 24.3 (2005): 70-71.

"Storytelling Woman.” The Offbeat 5 (2005): 32-33.

"Hybrid Kisses.” In Other Words: An American Poetry Anthology, ed. Leslie James. Denver, Colorado: Western Reading Services, 2003. 111.

"R-E-M-E-M-O-R-Y: Tales of a Goat-herder's Daughter, Champa, and the Magical Pot-maker." Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures. 10.1 (2000): 157-170.

Essay

Singh, Jaspal Kaur. “Uncomfortable Truths.” Philosophy and Global Affairs, vol. 1, no. 1, 2021, pp. 46–60, doi:10.5840/pga20212187.