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Amit Singh

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Affiliation

  • Assistant Professor , School of Undergraduate Studies

Email

    amit@aud.ac.in

Qualification

  • Ph. D.   Centre for English Studies, School of Languages, Literatures and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2013. Title of the thesis: A Study of the Transformation of Awadhi Folk Songs across Milieu     and Media 
  • M.Phil.  Centre for English Studies, School of Languages, Literatures and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2009.  Title of the dissertation: Orality and African Drama: Reading Select Plays by Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Post-graduation & Graduation:

  • MA English, Centre for Linguistics and English, SLL&CS, JNU, 2006
  • BA (English Literature, Hindi Literature and History) from M.G.M. College, Itarsi under Barkatullah University, Bhopal, 2003

Teaching Certification  

  • National Entrance Test (NET), July 2013

Past Experience

Teaching   Experience:

More than 16 years of teaching experience at UG, PG and PhD levels.

  • 2016 to the present: Assistant Professor, School of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi.
  • 2013-2016: Assistant Professor (Temporary), School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi.
  • 2010-12: Assistant Professor (Ad hoc), Department of English, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi.
  • 2009-2010: Assistant Professor (Ad hoc), Department of English, SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi.

Area of Expertise

  • Folklore and Folkloristics
  • Study of Poetic Forms, Epics, Orality and Folktales
  • Diaspora Studies, Native American Literature, African Literature
  • World Literature, Asian Studies
  • Literary Criticism and Theory
  • Research Methods for Studies in Literature, Culture and Folklore

Publications

Academic Publications: Papers in Peer-reviewed/ UGC CARE Journals

  • Singh, Amit. Translating and Transacting Folk Literature in Indian Classrooms: A Comparative    Study of Afro-American Music and Awadhi Folk Songs. FORTELL, 27, 2013, pp. 21-23.
  • Singh, Amit. Translation in School Curriculum: Needs and Challenges. JHAS, III (2), 2013, pp. 98-102
  • Singh, Amit. Translating through Translation: Locating Wislawa Szymborska’s Poems in  Hindi. Shodh Hastakshep, III (5), 2013, pp. 163-166.
  • Singh, Amit. Little Tradition of Ramlila in North India: A Folkloric Investigation. Shodh Sarita, 6 (24), 2019, pp 117-120.
  • Meiling B. and Amit Singh. Negotiations of the Diasporic Self in M.G. Vassanji’s The Magic of Saida (2012). JHAS, XII (3), 2022, pp. 1-8.
  • Meiling B. and Amit Singh. Folk Tellings of Ramayan and Mahabharat:                            Manifestations of the Indian Knowledge Tradition. Bharatiya Shiksha                               Shodh Patrika, 42 (2.i), 2023, pp. 263-266.
  • Meiling, B and Amit Singh. ‘In the Shade of Freedom’: History, Identity and Hybridity in Alka Saraogi’s Early Novels. International Researcher’s Journal, XI (3), 2024, pp.             31-38.
  • Singh, A and Bhoomika Meiling . Kumbh Mela and the Mytho-spatial Consciousness: New Directions. Bharatiya Shiksha Shodh Patrika, 43 (2), 2024, pp. 47-49.
  • Karki, M and Amit Singh. Investigating the Concept of Mahaul in the Holi Baithaks of Kumaon. Kalakalpa: IGNCA Journal of the Arts, IX (2), 2025, pp. 99-110.
  • Singh, Amit. A Brief Study of Oral Culture in Two Plays by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Bharatiya  Shiksha Shodh Patrika, 45 (1), 2026. Forthcomng.
  • Singh, A and Bhoomika Meiling. Meanings and Manifestations of Myths in the Kumbh Mela  Tradition at Prayag. Kalakalpa: IGNCA Journal of the Arts, 2026, Forthcomng.
  • Meiling, B and Amit Singh. The Representation of the Nation and the Politics of Translation  and Publication in Jules Verme’s The Mysterious Island (1874). Bharatiya Shiksha  Shodh Patrika, 45 (1), 2026, Forthcomng

Seminar/Conferences

National Seminars/Conferences

  • Presented paper titled as ‘A Song of Grass: Rewriting Native American History through Literary Imagination’ at National Seminar on ‘Intersections: History and Literature’ organized by Dept. of English, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, DU on 11th and12th of March, 2014.
  • Presented paper titled as ‘Kumbh Mela at Prayag: Context, Confluence and Conflict’ at National Seminar on ‘Interrogating Manuscript Traditions’, 24-25 March, 2015, at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi.

International Seminars/Conferences:

  • Presented paper titled as Route to Roots in Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony at International Seminar on ‘Migrations, Boundaries, Transgression: Commemorating the Komagata Maru Incident’ held at Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, 18-19 February, 2015.
  • Presented paper titled as ‘A Spatial and Temporal Enquiry into the Narratives of Kumbh Mela at Prayag’ at the 2016 Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society held at Miami, Florida, October, 2016.
  • Presented paper titled as ‘Retelling Rama’s Story through the “Little” Traditions of Ramlila in India: A Study of the Sacred in Folk Imagination’ at the 2017 Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society held at Minneapolis, Minnesota, October, 2017.
  • Presented paper titled as ‘Kumbh Mela Paraphernalia and  the Folkloric Traditions of the Pilgrims and other Witnesses at  Prayag’ at the 2018 Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society held at Buffalo, New York, October, 2018.
  • Presented paper titled as ‘Kinnar Akhara in Kumbh Mela: The Rise of the Transgender Community as an Influential Religious Sect.’ at the 2019 Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society held at Baltimore, Maryland, October, 2019.
  • Presented paper titled as ‘An Intangible Cultural Heritage Site and the Negotiations of a Religious Order of Transgenders: A Study of Kinnar Akhara in the Context of Kumbh Mela.’ at the 2020 Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society held virtually due to COVID-19 Pandemic, October, 2020.
  • Presented paper titled as ‘Pilgrimage in the Indo-Gangetic Plains: Politics, Religion, and Folk Tradition at a Confluence of Rivers in North India’, at the 2021 Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society held virtually due to COVID-19 Pandemic, October, 2021.
  • Presented a paper titled as ‘An Immortal Tree and a Pilgrimage Tradition at the Holy Confluence of Rivers: A Study of Akshay Vat and the Kumbh Consciousness,’ at the 2022 Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society held at Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, October, 2022.
  • Presented a paper titled as ‘The Epic to the Episodes to the Scenes from a Sacred Narrative Art Tradition: Investigating the Roots and the Routes to Newer Possibilities’ at the 2023 Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society held at Portland, Oregon, USA, November, 2023.

Invited Lectures

  • Delivered a Talk on “Kumbh Mela” in the Lecture Series Organised by Folklore Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 2020.
  • Delivered an Online Lecture on “Dalit Experiences” at Goucher College, USA, in Collaboration with Rory Turner on 17 September 2021.
  • Delivered an Invited Lecture titled “Kumbh Mela, Pilgrims, Place, and Parsimony” on 23 February 2023 in the Department of English, Shiv Nadar University IOE, Delhi, NCR

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Projects

Major Research Project (two years): ‘Kumbh Mela Consciousness and its Folk Imagination’ under ICSSR Research Projects 2023-24.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

PhD Supervision:

  • Supervised PhD Thesis on ‘The Khamba-Thoibee Epic Tradition of Manipur: A Study of Religion and Resistance in the Meitei Community’. Submitted in 2023. Awarded in December 2023.
  • Supervised PhD Thesis on ‘Devtas of Garhwal Himalaya: Memory, Performance and Tales for Justice’. Submitted in 2023. Awarded in December 2023.
  • Supervised PhD Thesis on ‘The Expressions of Holi in Kumaon: Investigations through Folk Songs, Narratives and Baithaks’. Awarded in December 2025.
  • Supervising Phd Thesis on ‘Haryanvi Folksongs in Context: Transformations and Women’s Perspectives.’ Ongoing.
  • Supervising Phd Thesis on Urban Legends of Delhi. Topic yet to be decided. Ongoing.

MA Dissertations:

  • Supervised above 35 MA Dissertations, mostly on Folklore and Folkloristics. A few titles are mentioned below:
  • Transition of Oral Tales to the Written Form: A Study of  Phunga-Wari Tradition in Manipur.
  • Tracing the Emergence of Hagiographic Tradition in Twelfth Century: Reading Hemchandra and Milarepa.
  • Diaspora, Identity and the Web of Intersections in M.G. Vassanji’s The Assassin’s Song (2008) and The Magic of Saida (2012)
  • The Shrine of Mahakali Kankali at Chandrapur and the Gonds  of Maharashtra
  • Karl Marx and the Taiping Rebellion
  • Images of Motherhood: A Comparative Analysis of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Bama’s Sangati: Events
  • Gender and Media in Contemporary Ragani Performance

International Collaborative Supervision:

  • Supervised a Fullbright PhD Scholar from Indiana University Bloomington, Christian Morgan James, for 9 Months during his Affiliation to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi from February 2023 through November 2023
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