Rashna Singh

Office: Armstrong Hall #253
English Department
The Colorado College
14 E. Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Phone: (719) 389-6509

email: rsingh@coloradocollege.edu

Rashna Batliwala Singh is a Visiting Professor at Colorado College. She was born and raised in India where she obtained her B.A. (Honours) in English and Political Science at the University of Calcutta. She received an M.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has taught at the graduate level at the Central Institute in Hyderabad, India and at New York University and at the undergraduate level at Mount Holyoke College and, for many years, in the Massachusetts state system. Singh’s academic expertise includes the literature of the British Empire; Postcolonial Literature; Anglophone Indian literature; Asian, Asian American and African writers; multicultural issues, and issues relating to the Indian subcontinent with particular reference to women.

Rashna B. Singh is the author of The Imperishable Empire: British Fiction on India (Three Continents Press, 1988) and Goodly is Our Heritage: Empire, Children’s Literature and the Certitude of Character, which was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield. She has contributed to Asian American Playwrights: A Biobibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 2002). She is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and conference papers on issues in British colonial and postcolonial literature, as well as multicultural and pedagogical issues. In 2003, Singh was awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend an institute at Oxford University on “Representations of the Other: Jews in Medieval Christendom,” and, in 1998, she was chosen by the Massachusetts Council of International Education to lecture on “Perceptions and Representations of the Other” at various state colleges in Massachusetts. At Colorado College she teaches: The Literature of Empire; The Empire Writes Back: Postcolonial Literature; Anglophone Writers of India; Race, Class & Gender; First Year Experience and Hearts of Darkness: Literary Journeys to the Congo.