Julietta Singh
Julietta Singh (1976) is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Richmond, where she teaches courses on decolonial literature, the ecological humanities, and queer studies. Her academic work has been published in South Atlantic Quarterly, Women & Performance, Social Text, Cultural Critique, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality, among others. She is the recent recipient of a 2019-2020 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship, which she held at Columbia University’s Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality.
Her first work of creative nonfiction, No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018), was featured in venues such as The Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour, Lambda Literary, and The Advocate, and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her new book, The Breaks, takes the form of a letter to her young daughter about race, inheritance, and mothering at the end of the world. It will be released in September, 2021. (2020)
Publications[edit]
- Books
- Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements, Duke University Press, 2017, xi+201 pp.
- No Archive Will Restore You, Punctum Books, 2018, 114 pp.
- The Breaks, Coffee House Press and Daunt Books Originals, forthcoming 2021.
- Articles
- "Between Food and the Body: Sara Suleri's Edible Histories", Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 16:1, Spring 2009, pp 26-44. [1]
- "The Tail End of Disciplinarity", Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49.4, 2013, pp 470-482.
- "Post-Humanitarian Fictions", Symploke 23:1-2, 2015, pp 137-152. [2]
- "Gandhi's Animal Experiments", in Cosmopolitan Animals, eds. Kaori Nagai, Karen Jons, Donna Landry, Monica Mattfeld, Caroline Rooney, and Charlotte Sleigh, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- "Future Hospitalities", Cultural Critique 95, Winter 2017, pp 197-218. [3]
- "Disposable Objects: Ethecology, Waste, and Maternal Afterlives", Studies in Gender and Sexuality 19:1, 2018, pp 48-54.
- "Errands for the Wild", South Atlantic Quarterly 117:3, Jul 2018, pp 567-580. [4]
- "Dehumanism & Disposability", The Goose 17:1, Sep 2018.
Interviews[edit]
- "Interview for Another World: Julietta Singh", Women & Performance, 22 Oct 2017.
- Daniel Berti, "Unraveling Academia With Queer Punk Feminist Julietta Singh", RVA Mag 35, 14 Jan 2019.
