Courses Taught at Lehigh
University
Amardeep Singh
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Spring
2024: Black Mirrors: Science Fiction, AI, and Ethics
Spring
2024: Global Cinema
Fall
2023: Things Fall Apart: British/Postcolonial Literature After 1900
Fall
2023: Climate Fiction and Film: Global Perspectives
Spring
2023: Theories of Literature and Social Justice
Spring
2023: Global Cinema
Fall
2022: Toni Morrison: the Art of Storytelling
Toni
Morrison: A Teaching and Learning Resource
Spring
2022: Global Cinema
Spring
2022: Seminar on Writing (for first-year students)
Fall
2021: Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Spring
2021: Toni Morrison: the Art of Storytelling
Syllabus
Toni
Morrison: A Teaching and Learning Resource
Spring
2021: Global Cinema
Fall
2020: Decolonizing (Digital) Humanities
Spring
2020: Working With Texts (gateway English major course)
Fall
2019: The Disappearing Center: British/Postcolonial Literature After 1900 (graduate
seminar)
Spring
2019: New Brown America: Race and Identity in the 21st Century
Fall
2018: Research Leave
Spring 2018, Literature and Social Justice (co-taught with Jennna Lay)
Teaching
Blog Post: A
Dream of Whiteness: Toni Morrison’s ‘Playing in the Dark’ and ‘La La Land’
Spring 2018, Global Literature and Film
Fall 2017, English 90, What Am I Doing Here? The Value of a
Liberal Arts
Education
Fall 2017, English 1: Composition and Rhetoric (Focus on Race
in America)
Teaching
Notes: Talking
About Ta-Nehisi Coates and Whiteness with my Students
Teaching
Resources: “Ta-Nehisi
Coates’ ‘Between the World and Me’ in the First-Year Writing Classroom”
Spring 2017, English 447: Writing Empire: Texts from British
India
Summer 2016, English 187: Beyond Bollywood: Indian Cinema in
an Era of
Globalization
Fall 2016, English 90, What Am I Doing Here? The Value of a
Liberal Arts
Education
Fall 2016, English 312, Literature and Religion
Spring 2016, English 2, Composition and Literature
Teaching
Notes: Multimodal
Assignment
Teaching
Notes: Immigrants
and Refugees
Teaching
Notes: The
Evolution of the Natural Born Citizen Idea
Fall 2015, English 493 (co-taught with Ed Whitley),
“Introduction to Digital
Humanities”
Teaching
Notes: Harlem
Shadows Collaborative Project
Teaching
Notes: Syuzhet For Dummies
Teaching
Notes: The
Archive Gap: Race, the Canon, and the Digital Humanities
Fall 2015, English 90, What Am I Doing Here? The Value of a
Liberal Arts
Education
Spring 2015, Asian American Literature and Popular Culture
Teaching
Notes: What
is Yellowface?
Fall 2014, English 187. British Literature II
Fall 2014, English 309, Literary Criticism and Theory
Summer 2013, English 187, Steampunk: Retro-Science Fiction
Spring 2014: English 385 Transatlantic Modernism
Spring 2013: English 187, Writing for the Internet
Spring 2012: English 447, Transatlantic Modernism
Spring 2012: English 126: British Literature II
Spring 2011-Fall 2011: On Research Leave
Spring 2010, English 449
Spring 2010, Humanities 150: “The Edges of the Human”:
Japanese and American Science Fiction (co-taught with Shige Suzuki)
Fall 2008: English 447: Literary Theory and Anti-Theory
Fall 2009: Converts and Rebels: Religion in British
Modernism
Fall 2009: Global English
Spring 2009: From West to East: Travel Writing and
Globalization
Spring 2009: Texture in the Text (Grad Seminar)
Fall 2008: James Joyce and Modern Ireland
Spring 2008: Virginia
Woolf and British Modernism (Graduate Seminar)
Spring 2007: Modernism
Spring 2006: Travel
Writers: India, England, and the U.S. (Introductory level)
Contemporary
British Fiction (Senior English Major Seminar)
Spring 2005: 20th
Century British Literature By Women (Undergraduate Seminar)
Modern
India: Literature and Film (Introductory Course)
Fall 2006: Secrecy and Authorship
(Introductory Undergraduate Seminar)
Fall 2006:Beyond
East And West: Travel Writers and Globalization (Graduate Seminar)
Fall 2005: Literature
and Freedom (Advanced First-year Writing Seminar)
Spring 2004: On Research Leave
Fall 2003
How to Read Deconstructively
Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Gayatri Spivak, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett,
Salman Rushdie
Spring 2003
Black Atlantic
Literature
Caryl Phillips, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, John Edgar
Wideman, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen
Spring 2003
Debate and Dialogue in Literatures
of the Middle East Orhan Pamuk, A.B. Yehoshua, Hanan al-Shaykh, Amitav
Ghosh, Naguib Mahfouz
English
191 – Fall 2002
South Asian Literature: Salman Rushdie, Bapsi Sidhwa, Mohsin Hamid, Amitav
Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Agha Shahid Ali…
Global
English (Graduate Seminar)
Fall 2004: Graduate Seminar, Spirits
of Modernity
English
449 – Fall 2002
Writing, the Body, and the Other:
Mahashweta Devi, J.M. Coetzee, Jeannette Winterson,
Virginia Woolf, H.D., Octavia Butler, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Rudyard
Kipling, H.G. Wells…
English
385 -- Fall 2001
British Modernism E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mulk Raj Anand,
Gertrude Stein (yes, an American), Aime Cesaire (yes, a Martinician) Modernism Online
Resources