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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.
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