After studying at Cornell and Tufts, Amardeep Singh received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2001. His book, Literary Secularism: Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction was published in 2006 by Cambridge Scholars Press; more information about it can be found here.

Professor Singh's primary interests include World Literature in English (also known as "Postcolonial Literature") and 20th/21st Century British literature. Some of his favorite authors are Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Vikram Seth, Saadat Hasan Manto, William Dalrymple, Zadie Smith, R.K. Narayan, Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Ian McKewan, and Khaled Hosseini -- to name just a few.

Recent courses Prof. Singh has taught include "Beyond East and West: Travel Writers in an Era of Globalization," "Contemporary British Fiction", and "Secrecy and Authorship"). In 2005, Singh organized a conference on "Secularism in South Asian Literature" for the South Asian Literary Association, and he is currently a member of that organization's Executive Committee. Amardeep has also appeared as a commentator on National Public Radio's "Radio Open Source" program twice. Amardeep has also been quoted in newspapers and magazines in articles relating to the South Asian diaspora, including Slate.com, Salon.com, the Times of London, and the Boston Globe.

Professor Singh has published essays in journals such as Minnesota Review (forthcoming), Criticism: A Quarterly (forthcoming), Wasafiri, The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Semeia, and Himal Southasian. More information about these projects and selected publication extracts can be found at Professor Singh's homepage.

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