Jvala Singh

Jvala is a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, for Punjabi and a sessional instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, teaching courses on religion in India and Sikh history. 
He completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia, where he explored pre-colonial Sikh historical narratives. 
This examination explored literature in Punjabi and Brajbhasha from the 18th and 19th centuries, building off his previous M.A. research completed at the University of Toronto, where he focused on Sikh Brajbhasha versions of Sanskrit epics, such as the Ramayana.

In furthering accessibility of pre-colonial Sikh Brajbhasha texts, Jvala Singh runs a podcast, the Suraj Podcast, where each episode is a chapter summary in English of the voluminous Suraj Prakash, a historical narrative covering the lives of the ten Sikh Gurus, written by Santokh Singh.