Professor Madhu Singh

Madhu Singh is a professor at the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, India. From a PhD in modern British poetry, she moved on to South Asian literary culture- to the works of Mahasweta Devi, Hindi/Urdu Progressive writers, Modernism in Hindi short fiction, Kabir’s mysticism, and to South Asian Colonial studies focusing on indigeneity, marginality and colonial representation. She has been associated with scholar G N Devy’s People’s Linguistic Survey of India and BHASHA for documenting the living and endangered languages, the De-notified tribes and the semi/nomadic communities of India. Her critical papers and translations have appeared in various Indian and US/UK academic journals such as JSL, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Comparative Literature Studies, South Asian Review, Annual of Urdu Studies, Wasafiri and others. Her works in translation are: G N Devy’s book A Nomad called Thief (Orient Blackswan ) , Thirteen Years: A Naxalite Jail Diary (Navayana) and the Languages of Chhattisgarh(Orient Blackswan). Her latest work on Indian Jews, the English rendition of a Jewish novel Miss Samuel: Ek Yehudi Gatha (Hindi)-is scheduled to be out early next year from Speaking Tiger, New Delhi.