South Asian Digital Humanities

Roopika Risam (PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, USA) is an Associate Professor of Secondary and Higher Education and English and the Faculty Fellow for Digital Library Initiatives at Salem State University, USA, where she also serves as Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies, and Coordinator of the Combined B.A./M.Ed. in English Education. Her research interests lie at the intersections of postcolonial and African diaspora studies, humanities knowledge infrastructures, digital humanities, and new media. Her first monograph, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2018. She is co-editing two volumes: Intersectionality in Digital Humanities with Barbara Bordalejo for Arc Humanities Press and The Digital Black Atlantic with Kelly Baker Josephs for the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (University of Minnesota Press). Along with Carol Stabile, she is Co-Director of Reanimate, an intersectional feminist publishing collective recovering archival writing by women in media activism. She recently received the Massachusetts Library Association’s Civil Liberties Champion Award for her work promoting equity and justice in the digital cultural record. Rahul K. Gairola (PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, USA) is The Krishna Somers Lecturer in English & Postcolonial Literature in the Creative Media, Arts, & Design discipline and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. He is the co-author of Migration, Gender and Home Economics in Rural North India (Routledge, 2019); author of Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016); and co-editor of Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics (Orient Blackswan/Lexington Books, 2016). He is the co-editor of the “Digital Spatialities” special issue of Asiascape: Digital Asia (Brill) and is an Article Editor for Postcolonial Text. He sits on the executive committees of Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH), the Australasian Association of Digital Humanities (aaDH), and the Digital Humanities Association for Research and Teaching Innovation (DHARTI, India). He is currently working on a monograph that re-thinks the notion of “home” in technology and sexuality in the South Asian diaspora, and an edited collection on trauma and healing in Asian literature and culture. In addition to teaching in Western Australia, he has taught at the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee, India, and a number of American institutions including The City University of New York, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Seattle University.

Preface

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Foreword: From Subaltern Studies to South Asian Digital Humanities

Radhika Gajjala

1. South Asian Digital Humanities Then and Now

Roopika Risam & Rahul K. Gairola

2. Digital Humanities on the Ground: Post-Access Politics and the Second Wave of Digital Humanities

Nishant Shah

3. Emulation as Mimicry: Reading the Salman Rushdie Digital Archive

Porter Olsen

4. Inside and Outside the Literary Marketplace: The Digital Products of Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie

Tawnya Azar

5. Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary Digital Graphic Narratives From India

Jana Fedtke

6. Acoustic Traces of Poetry in South Asia

A. Sean Pue

7. Beyond the Archive Gap: The Kiplings and the Famines of British Colonial India

Amardeep Singh

8. Colonial Topographies of Internet Infrastructure: The Sedimented and Linked Networks of the Telegraph and Submarine Fiber Optic Internet

Dhanashree Thorat

Afterword: The Vision and the Work into the 21st Century

Sukanta Chaudhuri