Assistant Professor at University of Houston
About
Kavita Ashana Singh is assistant professor of English at University of Houston. She completed a PhD in comparative literature at Cornell University, and a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the francophone and the anglophone Caribbean, and spans literary analysis, cultural studies, translation theory, and performance. She has previously published in journals Transforming Anthropology and Small Axe.
Current Work:
Kavita Singh's writing interests are diverse, and she is currently working on projects on gender and ethnicity in Trinidad, on the erotic in Caribbean womenÂ’'s writings, and on the intersection of performance and language in postcolonial Caribbean writing. Her book manuscript, The Carnival Language: Exhibitive Multilingualism in the Postcolonial Caribbean, brings her passion for thinking language and translation together with her interest in Carnival culture. The Carnival Language reframes the literary and cultural quest for national identity consolidation by theorizing performance as a privileged mode for politically and aesthetically responding to the particularities of postcoloniality against the backdrop of global neo-liberalism.
Research Area(s):
- English Language and Literature
- Cultural, Ethnic, and Diaspora Studies
- Comparative Literature
