Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
About
Balbir K. Singh is the postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD in English at the University of Washington in 2016. In 2016-17, Balbir was the chancellor’s postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Asian American Studies, as well as postdoctoral affiliate with the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Currently, she is at work on her first book, Militant Bodies, which looks at the visual culture and body politics of Muslims and Sikhs under the rise of global Islamophobia. Her scholarly and teaching interests include Asian and Arab American cultural studies, comparative racialized religions, transnational feminist studies, visual culture, anti-colonial and anti-imperial thought, and queer studies. She has published articles for the journals Sikh Formations and Critical Ethnic Studies. Her latest essay, “The Commodity Fetish of Modest Fashion” is out in October 2017 in QED: A Journal of GLBTQ World-Making.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Asian American and Asian studies; cultural, ethnic, and diaspora studies
