Dr. Shailendra Kumar Singh

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

• South Asian Narratives
• Gender Studies
• Visual Representations
• Adventure Comics
• Detective Fiction

Education

• Ph. D., Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
• M. A., University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
• B. A., University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

Latest Publications

• Female Pleasure and the Gender Politics of "Girliyapa", Girlhood Studies, 2021, 14(3): 55-71. https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2021.140305
• Premchand's Shifting Portrayals of Womanhood in Colonial North India: Between Conformity and Resistance, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 2020, 54(3): 414-39. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0069966720947540
• Premchand, Nationalism, and Civil Resistance in Colonial North India, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 2019, 56(2): 171-94. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019464619835663
• Conning the Conmen: Intelligence and Female Desire in Dedh Ishqiya, Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2018, 22(1): 116-25. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10894160.2017.1310540
• Disintegration of the Moral Economy in Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja, History and Sociology of South Asia, 2017, 11(2): 101-16. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2230807517696550