About Varsha Singh
Assistant Professor with eight+ years of experience specializing in English and Related Literature, Image Narratives and Culture Studies. Continually self-developing to offer innovative and inspiring curriculum implementation and supervision for high quality results. Formerly, I served as Assistant Professor in English and Culture Studies, at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Jammu, India
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Current Employment Status:
Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at the Institute for Arts and
Humanities, University of Worcester, UK (since Jan 2024); office email: v.singh@worc.ac.uk
Module Leader for
FLMS1100: Introduction to Film Studies;
FLMS2100: Film Theory
MEFS1001: Global Cultures.
FLMS3006: MA Dissertation Module
Education Summary:
PhD (2017), IIT Kanpur. English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Thesis Title: “Epicture: Graphic Books of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata” Master of Arts, English (2008-2010), Jadavpur University, with Merit
Bachelor of Arts, English (2005-2008), Presidency College, Calcutta University, Kolkata, with a Distinction
My Publications
1.Jha, Varsha. “The Mytho-epic Re-magination.” Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi. Vol. LIX, No. 6, Issue 296, November/December 2016, Print.
2.Jha, Varsha. “Writing the Picture: A Folk-Art Novel adaptation of Ramayana.” International Journal of Comic Art. Vol.18, no.2, pp.488-503, 2016, Print.
3.Jha (Singh), Varsha. "Reading a Retelling: Mahabharata in the Graphic Novel Form." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Routledge. Vol.9, issue 4, pp.118, Routledge. DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2017.135582. 17 Sept. 2017.
4.Singh, Varsha. “Epics as Cultural Commodities: Comics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata”, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Sage, pp.1-21, DOI: 10.1177/0021989419842282 journals.sagepub.com/home/jcl. 2019.
5.Singh, Varsha. Book Review of Emma Dawson Varughese’s Visuality and Identity in Postmillennial Indian Graphic Narratives, International Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 599-602, 2019, Print.
6.Singh, Varsha. “Speaking/Showing Silence in Appupen’s Graphic Novels, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Vol. 12, no. 6, 1369-84, Web, 2021
7.Co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, with Emma Dawson and Sakshi Dawson titled “Indian Graphic Narratives and the Postmillenial Moment”, 2020 to 2021
8.Magotra Aditi and Varsha Singh, “Basoh-mics: Reviving Basohli Art through Modern Indian Comics”, The International Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 25, No. 1, University of Temple, USA, 2023.
9.Singh, Varsha. “Mythic Tales, Graphic Tailoring”, IWE Online https://indianwritinginenglish.uohyd.ac.in/comics-adaptations/. Published October 2023. 10.Magotra, A., Singh, V. Re-conceptualizing transmedia storytelling: a theoretical model for Indian narratives. International Journal of Digital Humanities (2025). https://doi.org/
10.1007/s42803-025-00098-5. 11.Singh, V. (2025). Art, Work and Artwork—Lines of Inequality in Bhagwati Prasad’s Political Artivism. Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 0(0) [to be allotted] https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X251330399
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