Wendy Singer is the Roy T. Wortman Professor of History and South Asian Studies at Kenyon College. She is author, recently, of Independent India (Routledge, 2012), a thematic history of India since independence that includes sources of art and literature. Believing in the power of storytelling that lies at the heart of history-writing, she is currently collaborating on creative writing workshops for academics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Book Reviews
Sept/Oct 2018
“Polysituating”
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 196 pp. $22.00. Polysituatedness: A Poetics of Displacement by John Kinsella. Manchester, UK: […]
Nonfiction
Summer 2003
The Dalai Lama’s Many Tibetan Landscapes
Some Americans have altered their culture. They become interested in Buddhism. Let’s say Zen Buddhism. And this is a good thing. … Japanese Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism, whatever. Many of them […]
Nonfiction
Spring 2001
‘Endless Dawns’ of Imagination
Introduction by Wendy Singer “The same sun is newly born in new lands in a ring of endless dawns.” Rabindranath Tagore, the great Bengali poet, wrote this verse to Albert […]
Nonfiction
Spring 2001
Pure Science: Marie Curie and the American Gift
Introduction by Wendy Singer “Changing the world, one woman at a time,” announces the American Association of University Women (AAUW) on its Web site. And in 1921 that woman was […]