Editor for South Asian Studies
Yashee Singh is a Research Assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in Leipzig, where she works on CREOLE, a DFG-funded project developed with FAU and Université des Antilles to build a digital atlas of French-based Creole languages of the Caribbean (17th–19th century). She designs the project’s TEI XML and metadata architecture, developing an encoding framework that holds not only linguistic annotation but the sociolinguistic dimensions of languages shaped by colonial history.
Previously, she was a Research Assistant on the COMUTE project (Semi-automatic Collation of Different Language Versions of a Text) at the Freie Universität Berlin, applying computational methods to multilingual textual traditions and bridging philology with digital scholarship.
She holds an M.A. in Data and Discourse Studies from TU Darmstadt, where her master’s thesis, Colonialism on and off Screen: Colonialism and Digital Colonialism in Literature in Indian Languages, examined the intersections of colonial legacies, digital infrastructures, and the accessibility of non-English literatures.
Her research interests lie in tei/xml encoding & metadata design, corpus linguistics and decolonial theory, with a particular focus on how digital tools and encoding practices can recover, preserve, and amplify marginalized voices and languages.