Rajni Singh has been working in the field of gender studies for more than a decade. Much of her work is on women’s writings, gender issues, and transgenders in India. These research projects were funded by the National Human Rights Commission and ICSSR. The Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recognized her research work on Transgender Inclusivity: A Reality Check funded by NHRC and issued directives in their respective departments and offices for the implementation of the recommendations. Rajni Singh is Professor of English, Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences and Dean, Corporate Communications at Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad. She has held several administrative positions since 2014 till date. She has been on the board of the National Commission for Women, New Delhi, for scrutiny of proposals. She was listed as “one of the top 10 knowledge producers in India for the academic year 2017-18 and an Outstanding Research Faculty” by Careers 360 & MHRD. She has several publications to her account in journals like Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (AJWS), Archiv Orientalni: Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Asian Theatre Journal, Time Present:

Hejaz, Neha, and Rajni Singh. 2023. “‘Writing the wrongs and writing the rights’: scriptotherapy in Ian McEwan’s Atonement.” Journal of Poetry Therapy, 36(3), 226–242. https://doi.org/10.1080/08893675.2023.2170718

Kumari, Neha and Rajni Singh. 2023.”‘You Are Unique, The Way You Are’: Policing the ‘Fat Female Body’ in Fanney Khan.” KEMANUSIAAN: The Asian Journal of Humanities, 30 (1): 19-33. https://doi.org/10.21315/kajh2023.30.1.2

Singh, Rajni. 2022. “The New Subaltern Speaks Now: Exposing the Intersectional Discrimination in Urmila Pawar’s The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs.” Archiv orientální (ArOr) 90 (2): 309-331. https://aror.orient.cas.cz/index.php/ArOr/article/view/457