Julietta Singh is Stephanie Bennett-Smith Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Professor of English at the University of Richmond. A nonfiction writer and postcolonial scholar, her work engages the enduring effects of colonization through attention to race, gender, ecology, and inheritance.

Singh is the writer and co-director of the award-winning feature documentary, The Nest (NFB Canada, 2025), and the author of three books: The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2021), No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018), and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke UP, 2018).

Her scholarly work has appeared in venues such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Women & Performance, Social Text, Cultural Critique, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and her nonfiction work has been celebrated in venues such as The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, Literary Hub, and the New York Public Library.

She lives with her family on Powhatan lands in Richmond, Virginia.