Amardeep Singh
@electrostani.bsky.social
Professor of English at Lehigh University. Anglophone Postcolonial; Modernism; African American Literature; Digital Humanities.
https://www.electrostani.com/
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Oh hey, we won an award! Cool.
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and co-collaborators Sylvia Fernandez, Miriam Posner, Anna Preus, & Amardeep Singh’s project titled “Responsible Datasets in Context” received a Digital Project Award (Newcomer) from the American Studies Association. www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com
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January 3, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Oh hey, we won an award! Cool.
Reposted by Amardeep Singh
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and co-collaborators Sylvia Fernandez, Miriam Posner, Anna Preus, & Amardeep Singh’s project titled “Responsible Datasets in Context” received a Digital Project Award (Newcomer) from the American Studies Association. www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com
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Responsible Datasets in Context
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January 2, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and co-collaborators Sylvia Fernandez, Miriam Posner, Anna Preus, & Amardeep Singh’s project titled “Responsible Datasets in Context” received a Digital Project Award (Newcomer) from the American Studies Association. www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com
There’s a great and reporting-driven opinion essay by Lydia Polgreen in the NYT about how Indian Americans have found themselves flat-footed after the surge in anti-Indian rhetoric and policy from the right. Here's a few thoughts on how South Asian Americans can toughen up to survive this new era 1/
December 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
There’s a great and reporting-driven opinion essay by Lydia Polgreen in the NYT about how Indian Americans have found themselves flat-footed after the surge in anti-Indian rhetoric and policy from the right. Here's a few thoughts on how South Asian Americans can toughen up to survive this new era 1/
A round up of a few books I read and enjoyed from this past year. Academic books as well as general interest.
Includes references to some Bluesky folks: @aearhart.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social, @eve.gd, @annakornbluh.bsky.social...
www.electrostani.com/2025/12/2025...
Includes references to some Bluesky folks: @aearhart.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social, @eve.gd, @annakornbluh.bsky.social...
www.electrostani.com/2025/12/2025...
2025: My Year in Books
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December 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A round up of a few books I read and enjoyed from this past year. Academic books as well as general interest.
Includes references to some Bluesky folks: @aearhart.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social, @eve.gd, @annakornbluh.bsky.social...
www.electrostani.com/2025/12/2025...
Includes references to some Bluesky folks: @aearhart.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social, @eve.gd, @annakornbluh.bsky.social...
www.electrostani.com/2025/12/2025...
“Every archive … is at once institutive and conservative. Revolutionary and traditional.” —Derrida, Archive Fever
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“Every archive … is at once institutive and conservative. Revolutionary and traditional.” —Derrida, Archive Fever
There have been a number of stories like this in recent months... I don't know how to articulate how demoralizing and frightening it is, especially for those of us with foreign-sounding names and brown skin.
Hoping (not optimistically) for some new pathways for resisting totalitarianism in 2026.
Hoping (not optimistically) for some new pathways for resisting totalitarianism in 2026.
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
There have been a number of stories like this in recent months... I don't know how to articulate how demoralizing and frightening it is, especially for those of us with foreign-sounding names and brown skin.
Hoping (not optimistically) for some new pathways for resisting totalitarianism in 2026.
Hoping (not optimistically) for some new pathways for resisting totalitarianism in 2026.
Nice deep dive into the Rhinelander v. Rhinelander case in the Times by Laura Wexler. I was surprised the author didn't mention Nella Larsen's "Passing" in connection with the case; some scholars have suggested Larsen was inspired by it in her novel. #race #passing
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...
A Revelation Tore Apart Her Fairy-Tale Marriage, and Shocked the Nation
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Nice deep dive into the Rhinelander v. Rhinelander case in the Times by Laura Wexler. I was surprised the author didn't mention Nella Larsen's "Passing" in connection with the case; some scholars have suggested Larsen was inspired by it in her novel. #race #passing
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...
We used to have a Canon; now we have an Algorithm, suggesting books to us and shaping what we see and know.
The Canon was exclusive and biased. It overwhelmingly consisted of white male authors.
The Algorithm can be more inclusive, but by definition critics can't control it. We're subject to it.
The Canon was exclusive and biased. It overwhelmingly consisted of white male authors.
The Algorithm can be more inclusive, but by definition critics can't control it. We're subject to it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We used to have a Canon; now we have an Algorithm, suggesting books to us and shaping what we see and know.
The Canon was exclusive and biased. It overwhelmingly consisted of white male authors.
The Algorithm can be more inclusive, but by definition critics can't control it. We're subject to it.
The Canon was exclusive and biased. It overwhelmingly consisted of white male authors.
The Algorithm can be more inclusive, but by definition critics can't control it. We're subject to it.
The most commonly taught full books in US High Schools, 1963/2024.
1963: Huck Finn, Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Dickens, "Silas Marner"
2024: Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, "The Great Gatsby"
Surprisingly static!
Also: Students read fewer whole books now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
1963: Huck Finn, Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Dickens, "Silas Marner"
2024: Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, "The Great Gatsby"
Surprisingly static!
Also: Students read fewer whole books now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
December 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The most commonly taught full books in US High Schools, 1963/2024.
1963: Huck Finn, Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Dickens, "Silas Marner"
2024: Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, "The Great Gatsby"
Surprisingly static!
Also: Students read fewer whole books now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
1963: Huck Finn, Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Dickens, "Silas Marner"
2024: Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, "The Great Gatsby"
Surprisingly static!
Also: Students read fewer whole books now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Friends, watch out for phishing emails that look like they're important correspondence from a higher-up at your institution. They use login pages that look like your organization (using Iframe spoof).
Embarrassed to say I fell for one yesterday.
www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ghostfr...
Embarrassed to say I fell for one yesterday.
www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ghostfr...
New GhostFrame Phishing Framework Hits Over One Million Attacks
The GhostFrame phishing framework, using stealthy iframes, was linked to over 1 million attacks
www.infosecurity-magazine.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Friends, watch out for phishing emails that look like they're important correspondence from a higher-up at your institution. They use login pages that look like your organization (using Iframe spoof).
Embarrassed to say I fell for one yesterday.
www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ghostfr...
Embarrassed to say I fell for one yesterday.
www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ghostfr...
Reposted by Amardeep Singh
U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social
True and maybe even obvious-- but we need to keep saying things like this to protect our sanity.
"Inflicting collective punishment based on the heinous and isolated crimes of one person is not a rational, appropriate or moral policy response."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
"Inflicting collective punishment based on the heinous and isolated crimes of one person is not a rational, appropriate or moral policy response."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | I’m an Immigration Lawyer. Trump Is Shattering My Clients’ Lives.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
True and maybe even obvious-- but we need to keep saying things like this to protect our sanity.
"Inflicting collective punishment based on the heinous and isolated crimes of one person is not a rational, appropriate or moral policy response."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
"Inflicting collective punishment based on the heinous and isolated crimes of one person is not a rational, appropriate or moral policy response."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Yes, this. And: journal articles can go through the peer-review system faster, reach more people, and sometimes have long-term greater impact.
I myself needed to hear this before I went up for tenure (2008). Still, as a book-focused young scholar I'm not 100% sure I would have been open to it.
I myself needed to hear this before I went up for tenure (2008). Still, as a book-focused young scholar I'm not 100% sure I would have been open to it.
PSA sometimes your dissertation is not a book but a series of journal articles my friend and there is nothing wrong with that
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Yes, this. And: journal articles can go through the peer-review system faster, reach more people, and sometimes have long-term greater impact.
I myself needed to hear this before I went up for tenure (2008). Still, as a book-focused young scholar I'm not 100% sure I would have been open to it.
I myself needed to hear this before I went up for tenure (2008). Still, as a book-focused young scholar I'm not 100% sure I would have been open to it.
Reposted by Amardeep Singh
Are you a grad student working on post-1945 culture? Could your research benefit from incorporating some data, even minimally? Want feedback from journal editors?
This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you!
Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you!
Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Are you a grad student working on post-1945 culture? Could your research benefit from incorporating some data, even minimally? Want feedback from journal editors?
This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you!
Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you!
Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
I have a new #DH essay out in a German journal called Archiv, as part of a special issue on "Archives and the Global Turn." The title is: "Anthology, Archive, Corpus: the Design and Implications of _African American Poetry: a Digital Anthology_."
Here's a thread about it in plain English:
1/
Here's a thread about it in plain English:
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November 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I have a new #DH essay out in a German journal called Archiv, as part of a special issue on "Archives and the Global Turn." The title is: "Anthology, Archive, Corpus: the Design and Implications of _African American Poetry: a Digital Anthology_."
Here's a thread about it in plain English:
1/
Here's a thread about it in plain English:
1/
Phew! Glad to see this — I was going to need more time …
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Phew! Glad to see this — I was going to need more time …
Awesome story about a literally ‘marginalized’ woman doctor in a medieval manuscript, recovered via a close look at previously overlooked abbreviations at the edge of the page.
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Awesome story about a literally ‘marginalized’ woman doctor in a medieval manuscript, recovered via a close look at previously overlooked abbreviations at the edge of the page.
Great topic -- looking forward to checking this out.
Publishing soon in our flagship 'Environmental Cultures' series, 'Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment' by Pramod Nayar, which studies the work of over 50 poets: www.bloomsbury.com/postcolonial...
Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment
Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and settler colonies such…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Great topic -- looking forward to checking this out.
Harlem Renaissance trivia:
Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Bennett were born a year apart.
Both came from messy families w/feuding, separated parents; both had lonely, peripatetic upbringings.
Both studied at Columbia in 1921. Hughes didn't stay; Bennett got a degree in art at Pratt Institute 1/3
Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Bennett were born a year apart.
Both came from messy families w/feuding, separated parents; both had lonely, peripatetic upbringings.
Both studied at Columbia in 1921. Hughes didn't stay; Bennett got a degree in art at Pratt Institute 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Harlem Renaissance trivia:
Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Bennett were born a year apart.
Both came from messy families w/feuding, separated parents; both had lonely, peripatetic upbringings.
Both studied at Columbia in 1921. Hughes didn't stay; Bennett got a degree in art at Pratt Institute 1/3
Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Bennett were born a year apart.
Both came from messy families w/feuding, separated parents; both had lonely, peripatetic upbringings.
Both studied at Columbia in 1921. Hughes didn't stay; Bennett got a degree in art at Pratt Institute 1/3
"AI slop demonstrates not just the technological flexibility of Trump’s fascist aesthetics — it is the ultimate example of it, the culmination of the hateful dream of eliminating the human entirely." -Ed Simon in Hyperallergic
hyperallergic.com/1050277/the-...
hyperallergic.com/1050277/the-...
The Algorithmic Presidency
Just as 20th-century fascists deployed radio and film, today’s ideological descendants use memes, social media, and above all, artificial intelligence.
hyperallergic.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"AI slop demonstrates not just the technological flexibility of Trump’s fascist aesthetics — it is the ultimate example of it, the culmination of the hateful dream of eliminating the human entirely." -Ed Simon in Hyperallergic
hyperallergic.com/1050277/the-...
hyperallergic.com/1050277/the-...
For folks interested in DH and #CriticalAI, I'd recommend a new independent film from India called "Humans in the Loop."
It's the story of an indigenous (Adivasi) woman who gets hired to do data annotation. Raises questions of embodied labor, gender, and cultural bias in AI. Available on Netflix.
It's the story of an indigenous (Adivasi) woman who gets hired to do data annotation. Raises questions of embodied labor, gender, and cultural bias in AI. Available on Netflix.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
For folks interested in DH and #CriticalAI, I'd recommend a new independent film from India called "Humans in the Loop."
It's the story of an indigenous (Adivasi) woman who gets hired to do data annotation. Raises questions of embodied labor, gender, and cultural bias in AI. Available on Netflix.
It's the story of an indigenous (Adivasi) woman who gets hired to do data annotation. Raises questions of embodied labor, gender, and cultural bias in AI. Available on Netflix.
ICYMI, my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on what Zohran Mamdani learned from his mother's films. I published a book on Mira Nair's films in 2018..
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
What Mamdani Learned from His Mother’s Films - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Zohran Mamdani, as most readers know by now, is the son of a filmmaker, Mira Nair. His parents met while she was working on Mississippi Masala (1992); his
pghrev.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
ICYMI, my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on what Zohran Mamdani learned from his mother's films. I published a book on Mira Nair's films in 2018..
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
It's election day in NYC. Rooting for Zohran!
Check out my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social called "What Mamdani Learned From His Mother's Films."
It's reading Zohran's ethics & politics through films like "Mississippi Masala" and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Check out my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social called "What Mamdani Learned From His Mother's Films."
It's reading Zohran's ethics & politics through films like "Mississippi Masala" and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
What Mamdani Learned from His Mother’s Films - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Zohran Mamdani, as most readers know by now, is the son of a filmmaker, Mira Nair. His parents met while she was working on Mississippi Masala (1992); his
pghrev.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It's election day in NYC. Rooting for Zohran!
Check out my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social called "What Mamdani Learned From His Mother's Films."
It's reading Zohran's ethics & politics through films like "Mississippi Masala" and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Check out my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social called "What Mamdani Learned From His Mother's Films."
It's reading Zohran's ethics & politics through films like "Mississippi Masala" and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Reposted by Amardeep Singh
"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
Reposted by Amardeep Singh
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology