Dr. Kris Singh
BA (UWaterloo), MA (UWaterloo), PhD (Queen’s)Image
Email:
kris.singh@kpu.ca
Surrey Office: Fir 314
As a teacher, I stress inclusivity, curiosity, and intellectual generosity. I strive to be attentive to the unique interests and needs of students so that I can support them in understanding their strengths as readers, writers, and thinkers.
My research interests include Caribbean and African literature, postcolonial theory, world literature, and diasporic literature. Through archival work, I have investigated the relationships that unite writers of the Caribbean diaspora, specifically Austin Clarke, Sam Selvon, and Andrew Salkey. I have examined indentureship’s influence on identity formation in the Caribbean, and I have considered how Caribbean cultural production meets digital products and platforms (like AI and TikTok).
Courses taught
- ENGL 1100 - Introduction to University Writing
- ENGL 1202 - Reading and Writing about Selected Topics: Borders and Border Crossings
- ENGL 1204 - Reading and Writing about Genre
- ENGL 2250 - Approaches to Literary Study
- ENGL 3340 - Cross-Cultural World Literature
- ENGL 3345 - Topics in Canadian Literature
- ENGL 4401 - Topics in Canadian Literature: Diasporic Writing in Canada
Scholarly Work
- “Selvon’s Bush Coolie: Producing Backwardness in ‘Cane is Bitter’ and The Plains of Caroni.” Anthurium, 20.1, Sept 2025, pp. 1–10.
- “Artificial Intelligence, Tyrannies, and Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber.” Journal of West Indian Literature, 33.2, April 2025, pp. 22-43.
- “Backwater.” The Ex-Puritan, Iss. 68, April 2025
- Review of Christopher Laird's Equal to Mystery: In Search of Harold Sonny Ladoo. Journal of West Indian Literature, 33.1, Nov 2024, pp. 104-107.
- “‘I know the world by how I speak the world’: TikTok ABCs, Disaster Language, and Andrew Salkey’s Hurricane.” Archipelagos: A Journal of Caribbean Digital Praxis, Iss. 7, May 2023, pp. 1-20.
- “These Virtues o’ the Cullinerry Harts”: Talking Food and Politics in the Letters of Austin Clarke, Sam Selvon, and Andrew Salkey.”’Membering Austin Clarke, edited by Paul Barrett, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2020, pp. 56-68.
- “Archived Relationships: Pierre Bourdieu and Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora (Sam Selvon and Austin Clarke).” Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies, edited by Raphael Dalleo, Liverpool UP, 2016, pp. 175-190.