Manpreet J Singh

Dr Manpreet J. Singh has done her PhD in English literature from University of Mumbai. Most recently, she taught at the Department of English, Mata Sundri College for Women, University of Delhi.


In 2014, the centenary year of the Komgata Maru incident, she was awarded senior fellowship for research on the Sikh community by the Indo-Canadian Studies Centre, University of Mumbai, funded by British Columbia, Canada. Her report on the Sikh diaspora in British Columbia is being published in a forthcoming title by CoHaB, Indian Diaspora Centre, University of Mumbai.


Her interests centre around contemporary literature, gender studies, ethnic identities, popular culture, postcolonial perspectives and their intersections. Her previous works include a collection of poems titled The Golden Arc (1991) and Male Image, Female Gaze: Men in the Fiction of Shashi Deshpande (2012).


She resides in Mumbai, India.