Julietta Singh is Stephanie Bennett-Smith Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Professor of English at the University of Richmond. A postcolonial scholar and nonfiction writer, her work engages the enduring effects of colonization through attention to race, ecology, and inheritance.

Singh is the author of three books: The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2021), No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018), and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke UP, 2018). She is also writer and co-director of the experimental feature documentary, The Nest (NFB Canada, 2025).

The recipient of numerous awards and honors, her scholarly work has appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Women & Performance, Social Text, Cultural Critique, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Her nonfiction work has been celebrated in venues such as The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, Literary Hub, and the New York Public Library. Most recently, Singh has been a visiting fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Princeton University’s Humanities Council, and Arizona State’s Center for Imagination in the Borderlands.

She lives with her family on Powhatan lands in Richmond, Virginia.