Preeti Singh

Preeti received her PhD in English from Ohio State University-Columbus in August 2022. Her doctoral dissertation, Postcolonial Exceptions: Cultural Lives of the Indian National Emergency (1975-1977)  examines literary and cinematic representations of the widely memorialized national emergency declared by Indian prime-minister Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975. Reading across a range of genres—  novels, theatre, cinema, and political cartoons, Postcolonial Exceptions, scripts a literary and cultural history of postindependence India through the prism of the 'Emergency.'  Preeti completed her M.A. and M. Phil degrees at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India where she wrote a dissertation on representations of postcolonial subjectivity in the emerging genre of the Indian graphic novel. 

At Dartmouth, she will be teaching a course on the literatures and cultures of decolonization in South Asia. She has previously taught courses on world literature and science fiction, literatures of environmental justice, border fictions, British Literature, and graphic narratives at the Ohio State University and the University of Delhi. Preeti's academic work has appeared in South Asian Review, The International Journal of Comic Art, the Journal of Drama Studies, Strange Horizons, and Raiot Magazine.