Akshi Singh
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
School or Department: History and English & Drama
E-mail: akshi.singh (@) qmul.ac.uk
Sites of Interest: Kashmir; India; Nagaland; Assam; Sri Lanka; Calcutta; Bengal; ‘South Asia’ as represented in modernist and psychoanalytic literature.
Period of Interest: 20th and 21st Centuries
Research Keywords: Psychoanalysis; ‘primitivity’; civilisation; modernism; collective identity; masculinity; feminism; borders; fantasy; exchange.
Relevant Publications:
- ‘A Soldier in the Psychoanalytic Army: Claud Daly’s “Defence of the Garrison”’ in Psychoanalysis and History 18, (January 2016) 71-92.
- ‘Will it not be Better: Recognising the Indian Psychoanalytical Society’ in Psychoanalysis: Philosophy, Art and Clinic ed. David Henderson. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) 89-106.