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Dr. Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English, received the Award for Excellence in Global Engagement on Nov. 20. The award was presented on the last evening of the Ohio University International Education Week festivities. The Awards for Excellence in Global Engagement ceremony is an annual event that recognizes three […]

Dr. Amritjit Singh, the Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, has been invited to join the inaugural South Asian American Digital Archive Academic Council, a community of scholars committed to furthering the academic study of South Asians in the United States through supporting the work of the South […]

Dr. Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, is on a Fulbright-Nehru Award at the University of Delhi in India this academic year. Singh is working on a personal and historical book tentatively titled “At Home Abroad: The Making of Minority Consciousness in India and the United […]

  Dr. Amritjit Singh,Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, gives the closing plenary on “Migration, Exile, and NonViolence: Through a Transnational Glass Darkly” at the International Conference on the Cultural Politics of Memory on May 16 in London. The conference was hosted by the Centre for Critical and […]

Dr. Amritjit Singh,Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, received the Distinguished Achievement in Scholarship Award on Jan. 9 at the annual meeting of South Asian Literary Association, held in conjunction with the Modern Language Association meeting in Chicago. Singh has published more than a dozen books, including, most […]

A Roundtable Discussion on Banning Literary Texts by African American Authors is Thursday, Oct. 3, at 4 p.m. in the Faculty Commons, third floor of Alden Library. Recently a school board in North Carolina banned Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, concluding that the text lacked “literary value.” Invisible Man is […]

Mentoring Ph.D. candidates goes well beyond scholarship and subject matter, says Dr. Amritjit Singh, Professor of English, who is helping to lead a conversation about “professionalization” in Ph.D. programs. At the most recent annual MELUS conference in Pittsburgh, Singh led a panel and participated in two others. These conversations included […]