Preeti Singh (she/her) is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages program at Dartmouth College. Her research centers on literary expressions of political and social crises at the intersections of decolonization and the global cold war, discourses of human rights, and the rhetoric and theories of populism. Her book project, Postcolonial Exceptions: Cultural Lives of the Indian National Emergency (1975-1977) examines literary and cinematic representations of the national emergency declared by Indian prime-minister Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975. Preeti’s writing has appeared in South Asian Review, The International Journal of Comic Art, the Journal of Drama Studies, Strange Horizons, and Raiot Magazine.