Shagun Singha
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Mail code: 9508Campus: Scottsdale
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Shagun is a PhD candidate studying play and games through a posthuman lens in education while leveraging wearable technology to enhance her research. She holds degrees in English Literature from Madras University—an undergraduate and a Master's. Currently, she works as a graduate research assistant under her primary advisor Dr. Elisabeth Gee while pursuing her doctoral dissertation.
Her research explores how adults engage in play while geocaching within urban learning spaces, utilizing posthumanist and new materialist perspectives. Guided by Dr. Gee, Dr. Cala Coats, and Dr. David Carlson, Shagun employs a narrative style of experimental writing to examine the interplay of material encounters using qualitative methodologies such as walking interviews, GPS navigation, and mapping.
At ASU, she has served as a teaching assistant and sole instructor for the undergraduate course EDT 180: Technology Literacy: Problem Solving using Digital Technology Applications, which introduces digital technologies and their place in society and applies 21st-century skills to problem-solving using digital technology applications
Ph.D. in Learning, Literacies, and Technologies Arizona State University (expected 2023)
M.A. in English Madras University
B.A. in English Literature Madras University
- Singha, S. (2024). Playing With Ancestors: Writing as an Act of Vulnerable Listening. International Review of Qualitative Research, 0(0).
- Coats, C., Singha, S., Zuiker, S., & Riske, A. K. (2023). Imagining our neighborhood of nonhuman residents: Sensorial attunement as ecological aesthetic inquiry. In M. Sharma & A. Alexander (Eds.), The routledge companion to decolonizing art, craft, and visual culture education (pp. 196-204). Routledge.
- Coats, C., Singha, S., Zuiker, S.J., & Amanda K. Riske (2022). Time Unbound: Framing Encounters for Embodied Connection and Ecological Imagination. Studies in Art Education 63(4). 330-345.
- Singha, S. (2022). Binaries on a Circle: Engaging Whiteness on the Playground. Journal of Games Criticism 5, (Bonus Issue A). 1-14.
- Singha, S., Warr, M., Mishra, P., & Henriksen, D. (2020). Playing with Creativity Across the Lifespan: a Conversation with Dr. Sandra Russ. TechTrends 64, 550–554.