Surti Singh

Surti Singh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Her research interests include Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Global Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Feminist Philosophy, and Aesthetics. She is Co-Principal Investigator of the research project, Extimaces: Critical Theory from the Global South, and currently serves as President of the Association for Adorno Studies. Recent publications include "Dark play: Aesthetic resistance in Lukács, Benjamin and Adorno," Philosophy and Social Criticism (2020), "Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: The Artwork as Monad” in The ‘Aging’ of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: 50 Years Later (2021) and "Mahdi Amel and the Non-Identical," Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory (Forthcoming).

Education:

• Ph.D. Philosophy, DePaul University

Publications:

• Singh, Surti and Nadia Bou Ali, eds. Advance Contract. Extimacy: Psychoanalytic Encounters with Philosophy and Politics. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
• Singh, Surti. Forthcoming. "The Mental Image and the Spectacular Imaginary: Kristeva with Lacan and Sartre" in Revolution and Poetic Language 50 Years Later, ed. Emilia Angelova. Albany: SUNY.
• Singh, Surti. Forthcoming. “Adorno and the Culture Industry” in Oxford Handbook to Adorno, eds. Henry Pickford and Martin Shuster. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Singh, Surti and Nadia Bou Ali, eds. 2021. “Mahdi Amel Reading Edward Said Reading Marx” Special Section of Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, 4 (3).
• Singh, Surti. 2021. “Mahdi Amel and the Non-Identical” Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, 4 (3): 543-551
• Singh, Surti. 2021.“The Wound and the Flower” Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, 42 (2): 115-117.
• Singh, Surti. 2021. “Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: The Artwork as Monad” in The ‘Aging’ of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: 50 Years Later, eds. Stefano Marino, Samir Gandesha, Johan Hartle. Milan: Mimesis International Press.
• Singh, Surti. 2020. “Dark Play: Aesthetic Resistance in Lukács, Benjamin, and Adorno” Philosophy & Social Criticism 46(10): 1182–1202.