Jaspal Kaur SinghJaspal Kaur Singh, Professor Emerita, English Department, Northern Michigan University, currently teaches courses on Africa and Asia at the School of Writing, Literature, and Film, Oregon State University. She was a Fulbright Senior Fellow in India (012-2013) and was a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow at UCLA (1998-1999). Jaspal has published two monographs: Violence and Resistance in Sikh Gendered Identity (2020) and Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora (2008). She coauthored a book titled, Narrating the New Nation: South African Indian Writing (2018). Jaspal also published three co-edited anthologies titled, Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas (2010); Trauma, Resistance, Reconciliation in Post-1994 South African Literature (also in 2010); and Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey (2016). She was an assistant editor for Voice on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now (2011). Jaspal recently published a poetry collection, Exiles and Pleasures: Taunggyi Dreaming (2023). Many of her poetry and creative work has been published in various journals and anthologies. She has a daughter, Gitanjali Singh, a son, Gautam Singh, and a granddaughter, Karina Singh Cho. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Read More Read Less