Dr. Vipan Pal Singh

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Dr. Vipan Pal Singh
Dr Vipan Pal Singh, Professor, Department of English, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda.
Dr. Vipan Pal Singh

Professor and HoD
Department of English
School of Languages, Literature and Culture

Qualification

 PhD

Experience
Teaching Experience
25 years
Research Experience
19 years
Administrative Experience
  • Head, Department of English, Central University of Punjab
  • Member, Executive Council, Central University of Punjab
  • Member, Academic Council, Central University of Punjab
  • Member, School Board, School of Languages, Literature and Culture
  • Member, School Board, School of Education, Central University of Punjab
  • Member, Board of Studies, Dept. of English, Central University of Punjab
Any Other Experience

 

Research Area

Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Critical Theories, Cultural Studies

Research Interests

Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Critical Theories, Cultural Studies

Research Grants/Projects

1. Research project "The Postcolonial Adorno" (ongoing).

2. ICSSR sponsored major project on the topic “The Role of Old Age Homes in Providing Social Security: A Study of Geriatric Care in India”.

 

Professional Affiliation

Life member, Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodra, India

Life member, Comparative Literature Association of India

Professional Recognition/Awards/Scholarships

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

  • Member, Self-financing Centre, Central University of Punjab
  • Member, Departmental Academic Integrity Panel, Central University of Punjab
  • Member, Internal Complaint Committee, Central University of Punjab
  • Member, Interdisciplinary Centre for Languages and Literary Studies
  • Member, Anti-ragging Committee, Central University of Punjab
  • Member, Standing Fee Committee, Central University of Punjab
  • Member, Library Advisory Committee, Central University of Punjab
  • Member, Library Advisory Committee, IIAS, Shimla
Publications

Publications in Journals

  1. Roland Barthes’s Transition from Structuralism to Poststructuralism (2023/vol. 14/no. 1/134) Atlantic Literary Review.
  2. Mystical Elements in Ranchan’s O’er Travell’d Trails (2010//vol. 2/no. 2/68) Conifers.
  3. Edward Said’s Discourse of Dispossession (2013/99) Journal of Contemporary Thought.
  4. Fanon’s Discourse of Decolonization (2015/vol. 3/no. 2/91) Critical Space.
  5. Hybridity in Bhabhaesque Parlance (2015/97) Journal of Contemporary Thought.
  6. Postcolonial Dimensions of World Literature (2018/vol. 19/no. 2/33) Atlantic Literary Review.
  7. Edward Said and the Foucalutian Anxiety of Influence (2019/vol. x/no. 2/331) Literary Endeavour     .
  8. Imperialism and Ideological Boundaries in Heart of Darkness (2019/no.116/71) Research Analysis and Evaluation.
  9. Heart of Darkness as a Narrative of Multifarious Themes (2019/no. 34/50) Pramana.
  10. The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Critical Theory (2019/vol. 19/no. 2/33) Chintan.
  11. Postcolonial Issues in the Poetry of Derek Walcott (2019/no. 34/49) Chintan.
  12. Orientalism as a Discourse of Imperial Expansion (2019/vol. 18/no. 1/72) Atlantic Literary Review.
  13. Existential Quest in Patrick White’s The Tree of Man (2018/vol. 19/no. 4/45) Atlantic Literary Review.
  14. Fredric Jameson and Postmodernism as a cultural Dominant of Capitalism (2019/vol. 6/ no.117/22-24) Research Analysis and Evaluation.
  15. Heart of Darkness as a Narrative (2019/vol. 6/ no.125/4-6) Shodh Samikasha aur Mulyankan.
  16. Levi-Strauss and Structuralism (2020/19-23) Shodh Samikasha aur Mulyankan.
  17. Dialogic Consciousness of Mikhail Bakhtin (July 2022) International Research and Review.
  18. Suraj Soni & Vipan Pal Singh - The Role of Memory in Narrative: A Postmodernist Study of Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans (2023/vol. 10,/no.1/73- 77) International Journal of English Language Literature and Translation Studies.
  19. Suraj Soni & Vipan Pal Singh - Locating the Subject in Postmodern State: A Critique of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (2024/vol. 2,/ no.1/222- 231) Literary Voice: An International Peer Reviewed Journal of English Studies.
  20.  Suraj Soni & Vipan Pal Singh - Imperial Power and Heterotopic Spaces in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans, Literary Voice: A Peer Reviewed Journal of English Studies.
  21. Suraj Soni & Vipan Pal Singh - Identity Politics and Dehumanisation in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest and Mahesh Dattani’s Dance Like a Man International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences.
  22. Vipan Pal Singh - Guru Gobind Singh- Vyakektitv Ate Krititav. Yugbodh.
  23.  Sarita Yadav and Vipan Pal Singh - Urban Landscape and Political Violence in Anurag Kashyap’s Cinematic Narratives: A Foucauldian Perspective    - The Creative Launcher. Issue: Vol. 9 & Issue 4 (August, 2024)         
  24.  Gurjeet Singh and Vipan Pal Singh - Jürgen Habermas and the Critique of the Urban Subcultures of Subversion and Resistance. The Creative Launcher Issue: Vol. 9 & Issue 4 (August, 2024).
  25. Suraj Soni and Vipan Pal Singh - Of Cowardice, Responsibility and Nationalism in Post-war Japan: Re-mapping the Postmodern Ex-centric in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World. The Creative Launcher Vol. 9, Issue 6 (December, 2024).
  26. Suraj Soni and Vipan Pal Singh - Subverting Colonial Narratives: A Reading of Historiographic Metafiction in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives. Agathos, Vol. 16, Issue 1 (30) 2025.

 

Articles in Books and Anthologies

  1. Article “Amilcar Cabral” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti- Imperialism.
  2. Article “Chinua Achebe” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti- Imperialism.
  3. Article on “Hinduism” in Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms, published by ABC-CLIO, US.
  4. Article on “Buddhism” in Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms, published by ABC-CLIO, US.
  5. Article on “Disraeli, Benjamin” in The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, published by Greenwood Press, US.
  6. Article on “Fabian Society” in The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, published by Greenwood Press, US.
  7. Article on “Glorious Revolution” in The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, published by Greenwood Press, US.
  8. Article on “Mercantilism” in The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, published by Greenwood Press, US.
Books
  1. Frantz Fanon and Critical Theory for Decolonization
  2. Landmarks of English Literature
Book Chapters

1. “Identity Crisis in Postmodern Age” in the anthology Art, Culture and Theory: Mapping the Transition from Modernism to Postmodernism. 2. “Colonialism/Postcolonialism: A Multicultural South Asian Perspective” in the anthology Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature published by Rowman and Littlefield, New York.

Tools/Tests

 

Research Guidance

PhD: One Awarded, Five ongoing

MPhil Dissertation: One awarded

P. G. Dissertations: Twenty-three awarded

Conference/ Workshops/Seminars Attended

Invited Lectures / Resource Person/ Paper Presentation in Seminars/ Conferences

  1. Foucauldian Hermeneutics and the Ethics of Self-Constitution, General Shivdev Singh Diwan Gurbachan Singh Khalsa College.
  2. Dynamics/Disjunctures of “World Literature, University of Delhi and University of Postdam, Germany International.
  3. Media and Alternative Mediums: A Postcolonial Perspective    Panjab University Rural Centre, Kauni, Punjab.
  4. Transnationalism, Modernity and Diaspora Criticism” Centre for Diaspora Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala.
  5. Hate Crimes Against US Sikh Diaspora Centre for Diaspora Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala.
  6. South Asian Aesthetics in the Poetry of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Punjabi University.
  7. Exploring Alterity in Bhabha’s Discourse Punjabi University.
  8. Quest for Identity in Aime Cesaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land Punjabi University.
  9. Post-Soviet Fiction of Vassily Aksyonov as a Mirror of Russian Liberalism University of Delhi.
  10. Exile and Intellectual Responsibility of Edward Said, Central University of Rajasthan.
  11. Shakespeare and Subaltern Studies: A Contrapuntal Approach, The Shakespeare Association of India and St. Bedes College, Shimla.
  12. Marxist Aesthetics in Brecht’s Life of Galileo, Punjabi University.
  13. Identity Crisis in Postmodern Age Brijindra College, Faridkot.
  14. Media Culture and the Construction of Postmodern Identities, Forum on Contemporary Theory.
  15. The Merchant of Venice as a Parable of Materialist Contradictions Shakespeare Society of Eastern India and Shakespeare Center for International Advanced Research, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
  16. The Empire Strikes Back: Globalization, Neo Imperialism and the Relevance of Postcolonial Studies, Banaras Hindu University.
  17. Reading Subaltern Studies: Beyond Historiographical Gaps, Punjabi University, Patiala.
  18. Postcolonial Theory and Colonial Discourse, Dev Samaj College for Women.
  19. Frantz Fanon and the Neo-Marxist Paradigm of Colonial Resistance, Punjabi University, Patiala.

 

Conference/ Workshops/Seminars Organised

CONFERENCE/ PANELS ORGANIZED

  1. Member of the organizing committee for UGC sponsored National Seminar on “Art, Culture and Theory – Mapping the Transition from Modernism to Postmodernism” organized by Govt. Brijindra College, Faridkot, on 3-4 February, 2011.
  2. Convener of inter-college symposium on Jallianwala Bagh Massacre organized by Govt Brijindra College, Faridkot on 5 March 2019.

 

SUMMER SCHOOL/ REFRESHER COURSES/WORKSOPS ATTENDED

  1. Attended UGC Sponsored Refresher Course on “Literature and Thought”,  jointly  organized  by  the  UGC  Academic  Staff  College  and  the Dept.  of  English,  Jadavpur  University,  Kolkata,  on  2 -21  February,  2009, and  obtained  “A” grade.
  2. Attended Workshop organized by the Department of Higher Education and ITFT, Chandigarh from 3rd January to 7th January, 2016.

 

Invited Talks/ Resource Person
1. Critical Issues of the Novel: The Trial by Franz Kafka Baba Farid College, Bathinda.
2. Foucauldian Hermeneutics and the Ethics of Self-constitution Khalsa College, Patiala.
3. The Art of Listening Sarvhitkari Refresher Course.
4. Mastering Conversation Sarvhitkari Refresher.
5. Earth Day and Ecological Consciousness PIT Nandgarh.
6. Leadership Traits: Ideas and Insights, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
7. Continual Displacements and Dispossession: The Question of Palestine and Postcolonial Interventions            Akal University.
8. Literature as Discourse of Knowledge in Vedic Era, Guru Kashi Department of Languages, Punjabi University Guru Kashi Campus.
9. Prahlad: Invoking Myth for Universal Justice, Central University of Punjab.
10. Life and Thought of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Shaheed Bhagat Singh State university, Ferozepur.
11. Mastering Conversation, Sarvhitkari Refresher Course.
12. The Art of Listening Sarvhitkari Refresher Course.
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