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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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Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 23h ago

I've been doing a new project w/a grad student collaborator & we got interested in Tagore's short stories. (Alongside everything else, he was a world-class short story writer!) We made a collection of them; it's the largest set currently online (I think): scalar.lehigh.edu/literature-o...

Literature of Colonial South Asia: Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore: A Collection

A Collection of Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore in English Translation

scalar.lehigh.edu

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · last wk.

This. The intense discussions "event" films like this provoke ought to remind us that choices about art, storytelling, and performance matter. This is what we *do* in humanities fields. We shouldn't need to keep insisting our work matters since it *obviously* matters a lot to millions of people.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

10. Whatever one thinks of the film as a work of art, it's doing some good in the world, by generating big conversations, bringing new audiences to the cinema, and new readers to ancient literature. I hope it helps save the humanities.

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 2w ago

Arundhati Roy on "Cockroach Democracy": "The spontaneous rage we are witnessing will dissipate unless some real political work begins... [The government] remains unmoved because it feels that all it needs to do is wait. States have the power to wait. People don’t." thewire.in/rights/cockr...

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

thewire.in

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 2w ago

India's new "cockroach" youth protests in a nutshell: It started with the leak of standardized test (NEET) used as entry exam for medical school. Not a small problem, since leaked tests have to be re-administered, causing stress & months of delays. Said that ~20 students died by suicide after. 1/

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking forward to reading this approach to absence in the archives focused on representations of Ireland. (As a start, interesting to see the differentiation between "silence" and "absence" the author makes in the introduction) Thank you for making it open access!

"This volume seeks to explore reasons why and how official records that were listed, indexed, or known to have existed as physical objects or digital assets have been absented post-production. Silence in the archive is a widely acknowledged epistemological challenge, but absence, its faithful companion is so well accepted and established that it has received far less scholarly attention. Past studies use absence and silence interchangeably, but as a scholar of Ireland, who routinely deals with enormous gaps in the historical record, I believe that for conceptual, theoretical, and methodological reasons, it is more helpful to separate them"
Ciara Breathnach@ciarab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is nuts to me. Remember a few years ago how Twitter was *breaking people's brains*? People living their lives around their tweets; doing everything for clout; complete attention span collapse, etc. For some folks Gen AI is doing the same thing. (And it doesn't have to be this way...)

Amy Earhart@aearhart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am at this same conference and was shocked and angered at this admission. An hour of my life wasted- but what I like about this thread is the deep sadness expressed about ceding our expertise to a lackluster machine that produces mediocre output at best.

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I resisted commenting on the "Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good?" essay until I read it. It's undoubtedly a strange use-case for generative AI and intentional "confabulation," but instead of piling on, below are a couple of questions. arxiv.org/abs/2511.07722

Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good?

LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary and social theory), the use...

arxiv.org

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A congenial and witty introduction to a controversy many of us had hitherto been avoiding. (Hint: trans issues are a not-small part of what’s driving these people.)

Michael Bérubé@michael-berube.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My response to that "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences" is up. tinyurl.com/y39crkzp As I say on Facebook, I back-loaded the good stuff, like showing that the authors' account of the 2017 Hypatia controversy reveals them to be unreliable reporters.

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The result is not precisely Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day; maybe more EM Forster’s Night and Day or even Ronald Firbank’s Night and Day." (Sounds pretty good to me, actually...) www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars

Woolf’s novel about a headstrong young Edwardian woman takes flight under Tina Gharavi’s direction, with Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders among the ensemble cast

theguardian.com

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"I am happy to report that after 33 years of working in English departments, I have been completely cured of my Anglophilia." A lot of great stuff in this UC-Berkeley commencement address from @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, published in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social pghrev.com/address-to-t...

Address to the Class of 2026 - Pittsburgh Review of Books

This commencement address was delivered to the graduating English majors at the University of California, Berkely on May 20th, 2026. Thank you to Viet Thanh

pghrev.com

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to see @whitfrazier.bsky.social's book is now out! Modernist studies, Black print / periodical culture, and the 1960s-70s Black Arts movement. Great array of topics!

Dr. Whit Frazier Peterson@whitfrazier.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Book is finally out! Published with @umasspress.bsky.social 'The Image and the Fire" uses a #BlackStudies methodology to elucidate how Poundian Imagism, the Harlem Renaissance & the Black Arts Movements are in dialogue with each other. www.umasspress.com/978162534950...

Amardeep Singh@electrostani.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One challenge to learning quantitative methods in #DH is that there are endless prerequisies. You can't just read the latest thing in Journal of Cultural Analytics and expect to do it yourself (even with "vibe coding"!) This spring, I have been reading some old & new books to strengthen basics: