Dr. Smita Singh

Teaching Fellow
School of Languages and Literature/Humanities
Smita a nalandauniv.edu.in

Dr. Smita Singh is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Languages and Literature, Nalanda University.She was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the University of Kansas, USA as a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA), She holds a PhD that titles Anorexic Bodies and Sexuality in Select Victorian Texts: A Critical Study from the Department of English, Patna University, India. She has also completed Post Graduate Certificate Course (PGCTE) and a Post Graduate Diploma Course (PGDTE) in English Language Teaching from English & Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad.
Dr. Singh specializes in the area of English Literature with a focus on women, gender, bodies and sexuality in terms of health and illness narratives from 19th Century and onwards. Her research also explores the connections of Bio-ethics in Literature and Medical Humanities. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Fasting Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity” that seeks to explore the literary and cultural mediations of a distinctively new sexual persona. The book proposes to investigate a nuanced portrayal of how the Victorian conceptualization of female appetites, her health and well-being and anorexic body were infused with contemporary notions of sexuality and gender; also, in what ways women’s relationship to food was gendered.
Prior to joining Nalanda University, Dr. Singh has taught courses on Literature and Gender, Victorian Literature, Health and Illness Narratives in British Fiction 16th to 19th Century, Basic Linguistics and Phonetics at the department of English, SRM University, Gangtok, Sikkim.