Editor for South Asian Studies
Yashee Singh is a Research Assistant at the Free University of Berlin, where she contributes to the COMUTE project (Semi-automatic Collation of Different Language Versions of a Text). Her work focuses on applying computational methods to
multilingual textual traditions, bridging the gap between philology and digital scholarship.
She holds an M.A. in Data and Discourse Studies from TU Darmstadt, where her master’s thesis examined Colonialism on and off screen: Colonialism and Digital Colonialism in Literature in Indian Languages. Her research explores the
intersections of colonial legacies, digital infrastructures, and the accessibility of non-English literatures.
Yashee is currently developing her PhD research on Reconstructing Pedagogy
through the Upanishads. The research seeks to explore the pedagogical models embedded within the Upanishads, their historical transformations—particularly in relation to colonial education systems—and the role digital methodologies can play
in their analysis and structured representation.
Her research interests lie in digital humanities, literary studies, and postcolonial theory, with a particular focus on how digital tools can recover, preserve, and amplify marginalized voices in Indian and global literatures.