Dr. Madhu Singh is Professor at the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow. After a Ph.D. in modern British poetry, she branched into exploring different dimensions of the British rule in India. Her research interests over the last two decades include anticolonial movements in India, colonial epidemics, Indian Renaissance under colonialism, and documentation of endangered languages and communities. She recently edited a book titled Outbreaks: An Indian Pandemic Reader (Pencraft international, New Delhi, 2021), which deals with the complex challenges of past and present epidemics/pandemics in India in their socio-cultural, literary and historical contexts.

Dr. Singh received a visiting scholarship at the School of Asian and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London in 2018-19 for her project on the Bene Israel Jews of India.

During her Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence fellowship, Dr. Singh is working on “Revolutionary Print Culture, Ephemeral Remains, and Vernacular Subjectivities in North America During and After Ghadar Movement (1910-1940)”. She aims to trace the role of California-based periodicals by expatriate Punjabi-Sikh writers in the anticolonial struggle in India, spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is also redressing gaps and silences in existing research on the Ghadar movement from interdisciplinary perspectives.