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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 20h

“I am here to represent brownness, which is to say: states of colonial abjection, archival absence, demographic confusion, and coffee with modest amounts of milk.”

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congrats! Looking forward to reading this.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I ordered it! Looking forward to it ... thinking it might be especially helpful for a class I'm hoping to teach on genres & data in the spring.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Got a student applying for M.A. or Ph.D. programs in English? After years of working with students aspiring to graduate study, this summer I posted a tip sheet that might be helpful. www.electrostani.com/2026/07/stat...

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Statement of Purpose Tips (English Graduate programs -- M.A. and Ph.D. applications)

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is an eye-opening, deeply researched piece. Highly recommended.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great to see @neel2112.bsky.social as first author on this (alongside you and @mariaa.bsky.social of course). I started reading it and am very curious to understand better the cool method you all worked out to connect iterations of prompts.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Btw I am sharing the cleaner version w/my students. If you do still have part 2 somewhere, there are 25 young people in eastern PA (and me) who would be interested!

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh nice — the version that showed up for me on a Google search for (approximately) “step by step historical account of the emergence of special relativity” was only the old post w/out working image links.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trying to explain special relativity to my first-year students in a class on Science/Fiction, and I came across @scottbot.net's blog post from 2014 that has exactly the historical + human-centered account I wanted. (Scott, did you ever do part 2 in this series?) www.scottbot.net/HIAL/index.h...

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Understanding Special Relativity through History and Triangles (pt. 1) – the scottbot irregular

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Congrats -- looks great. Will look forward to reading this next summer!

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You might get away with it if you convinced everyone you had accidentally created a "super-intelligent" collective of "misaligned" bots motivated to conceal their cheating on a diagnostic you had given them, and everyone was so stupefied they didn't think to charge you.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yes? (As long as you never grow up, never grow old, and never -- ever -- spend your lunch money?)

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dear autocorrect, I wanted to say "impute," not "input." Now please let me actually type that. Thank you.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"I know we're in the red zone, but I'm going to walk climate change, punt on mass extinction, and call a timeout instead of dealing with ocean acidification." (That's all the sports metaphors I know :-)

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Congrats! (Hard to believe you weren't one already!)

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I knew there was something there... I think I just forgot that I'd read the essay... (thanks for remembering / finding it)

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wasn't there a rumor going around that the D.A. Miller author photo was a response to Frank Lentricchia's author photo on "Ariel and the Police"? (Is it possible that one of our queer theory friends analyzed both photos side-by-side as metaphors for the differences in method? I have a dim memory...)

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This fall marks my 25th year in my current job at Lehigh. A lot I could say, but basically: incredibly lucky to have had a gig that's given me freedom to explore & develop. I've been posting some of my lecture notes to my blog from time to time; collected here: www.electrostani.com/p/teaching-n...

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In 2015, the U.S. sent more than $100 million to aid Nepal after a massive earthquake, much of it distributed through USAID. After the disaster this week, the U.S. is sending … $500,000.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Congratulations! Happy to see this.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy 1000th blog post! And best wishes on your health issues -- hope you are out of the hospital soon!

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Alongside the macro picture (which is dire in exactly the ways you say), over the past year it's affected a couple of particular applicants I had gotten to know & hoped to recruit. So painful to witness the abrupt cancellation of career and life plans for promising young scholars...

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Back from sabbatical! Here's my fall teaching: "What is the Role of Science in Science Fiction?" (seminar for 1st year students, co-taught with a colleague from Chemistry) "Global Climate Fiction" (grad seminar: an intro to Postcolonial Studies as well as Ecocriticism/Environmental Humanities)

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Yeh hai baseball ka jadoo" --> This is the magic of baseball.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Shorter Cofnas: So IQ determines everything, except where it doesn't show anything at all. For that, we need a whole other set of qualitative criteria and a hodge-podge of anecdotes and stereotypes.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Whoa…. (Have you put that in print? You should.)

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

No one reads blogs anymore but they can be good for that.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

(Also: check out "Letters to Uncle Sam"!)

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There are some real bangers in that collection! Also some truly dark shit (just a heads up -- "The Odour"). Manto was incredibly witty, smart, and cynical. It's mostly delightful, but sometimes he's a lot.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Congratulations -- looking forward to reading this! Esp. eager to hear more about the "bibliotherapeutic" turn, and what you found in your research on the cultures of reading/writing/publishing via BookTok and WattPad...

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Your other point in that paragraph gestured toward one way forward: "Yes, sometimes I use AI for things... but it's not generally what I would lead with in a talk." Maybe a lot of us heading that way? Today one wouldn't lead with, "I used Python to.." Could be the same with genAI tools in 5 years?

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"...inevitable AI ubiquity for humanities research as a starting point, to an extent I wouldn't agree with or be comfortable with myself." I've been noticing this too & wondering what alternate futures might look like? Seems like forward "progress" in DH is strongly associated with AI right now?

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've been doing a new project w/a grad student collaborator & we got interested in Tagore's short stories. (Alongside everything else, he was a world-class short story writer!) We made a collection of them; it's the largest set currently online (I think): scalar.lehigh.edu/literature-o...

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Literature of Colonial South Asia: Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore: A Collection

A Collection of Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore in English Translation

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is a really helpful framing! I like the way it names what extractivist settlers were doing as essentially parallel to what they accused "savage" indigenous people of doing (and being). (Not an accurate accusation, of course--orientalist projection.)

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This. The intense discussions "event" films like this provoke ought to remind us that choices about art, storytelling, and performance matter. This is what we *do* in humanities fields. We shouldn't need to keep insisting our work matters since it *obviously* matters a lot to millions of people.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I don’t actually know! I can ask Abhi if he knows what might have happened…

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Arundhati Roy on "Cockroach Democracy": "The spontaneous rage we are witnessing will dissipate unless some real political work begins... [The government] remains unmoved because it feels that all it needs to do is wait. States have the power to wait. People don’t." thewire.in/rights/cockr...

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Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The family tried so hard to not believe it was happening… but it was.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Protests now spreading to other cities. Will it turn into anything? Hard to say. India has had other mass protests in recent years: the Farmer protests (2020-2021) and protests after a change to citizenship law (2019), among many others. This is the first fully Gen Z protest movement. Not over yet!

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Protests in Delhi started small in June, but have since rapidly grown, especially after a prominent activist doing a hunger-strike was forcibly detained and taken to a hospital. Lots of videos on social media showing students being beaten by police --> broad sympathy for the students. 3/

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

An Indian Supreme Court Justice called unemployed youth with "bogus degrees" "cockroaches," leading to a student coining the "Cockroach Janata Party" (Cockroach People's Party), which blew up online -- 21 million Instagram followers in a week. 2/

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

India's new "cockroach" youth protests in a nutshell: It started with the leak of standardized test (NEET) used as entry exam for medical school. Not a small problem, since leaked tests have to be re-administered, causing stress & months of delays. Said that ~20 students died by suicide after. 1/

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Pretty far along! Reviewers read first 3/6 chapters. Another chapter is now written. The final chapters are the ones most engaged with computational & algorithm questions — slow going for me since this area is huge & growing so rapidly.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I do want to give a special shout-out to @halperta.bsky.social who worked with me as a developmental editor. Hannah's feedback and conversation were key in helping me figure out what this book should be *about*. If you're working on a book, consider working with Hannah! halperta.com/categories/m...

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Work With Me

Towards a better future for the humanities.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

And it centers minoritized literatures, especially African American literature, Asian American literature, & South Asian literature. What are the implications of the digital textual paradigm for how we teach and read literature? How are access and algorithms putting pressure on the Canon? 3/

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