Governing Body Members

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With the experience of being a researcher and an educator in multidisciplinary academic environments across three different continents, Dibya’s work examines and interrogates cultural narratives of/about dominant technologies, ranging from nuclear weapons to artificial intelligence, with a current focus on algorithmically-driven platforms. His core interest(s) advance data-driven research and teaching interventions, particularly in Digital Media and Culture(s), which amplify and dialogue with non-normative and minority subjectivities as well as the interconnected structural inequities of race, caste, class and gender, especially from Majority World/Global South contexts. As a representative sample his recent work has engaged with issues of Algorithmic Accountability in the Global South(s), the role of social media health promotion during Covid 19 in India, and the performances of anxious postcolonial masculinity in online spaces. His continuing work in Digital Humanities, with a specific focus on India and South Asia, can be found in the volumes on “Global Debates in the Digital Humanities”, “What We Teach When We Teach DH” (both from the University of Minnesota Press), and “Digital Humanities and Laboratories” (from Routledge), to name a few. In addition he has edited the special issue of the journal “Reviews in DH” on DH pedagogies and is the current contributing author on “Digital Humanities” for the Oxford University Press Journal, “The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory” (YWCCT). Currently Dibya is the Programme Director, of the BA in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Leeds and he has previously been a tenured faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore as well as at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur. He is also an affiliate of the Data and Society Research Institute (USA) and a founding member of DHARTI.

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Shanmugapriya is an Assistant Professor (Digital Humanities) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad. She was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada from 2022 to 2024. She was an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK from 2020 to 2021. Shanmu was a SPARC Visiting Researcher at the Department of History, Lancaster University in 2019. Her research and teaching interests encompass an interdisciplinary approach, with a focus on digital humanities, digital environmental humanities, and digital literature. Specifically, her areas of expertise include South Asia, Colonial and Postcolonial studies, Text mining, Geographical text analysis, GIS and mapping, Interactive visualization, and Digital-born creative works. Shanmu earned her Ph.D. in Indian English Literature and Digital Humanities at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. She is one of the Interim Executive Committee members and Governing Body of DHARTI, and a Research Fellow and member of Electronic Literature Organization.

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Dr. Thoudam’s highly specialized Interdisciplinary research interests are Comics Studies, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Literary Studies, Performance Studies, Religious Studies, and their intersections focused on Manipur in India’s Northeast. She is currently working on two book projects. Motto in Life: Live.

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Saim Raza is PhD Scholar at the Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, India and has served as an Assistant Professor in GLA University, India. He has written and presented papers in the domain of Digital literature, Postcolonial literature, Media studies, and Cultural studies. He has also served as the Secretary of Raleigh Literary Society, one of the oldest literary societies in India. He has represented the university in various national and international events which includes debates and colloquiums. He has trained students in the art of debating at the prestigious Siddons Union Debating Club. He is the author of the novel Beyond Mortality.

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Samya Brata Roy (he/him) is a PhD scholar at the School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur. He is associated as a Fellow with Digital Humanities Research Hub (School of Advanced Study, University of London), Electronic Literature Organization and DAS|LAB (University of Regensburg). His interests and publications lie in and around Visual Culture, Electronic Literature, Videogame Studies and Digital Humanities. He has curated/peer-reviewed both digital/electronic art exhibits and scholarly outputs. He co-founded Electronic Literature India and his other roles include being a member of the Intersectional Inclusion Task Force with the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, Technical Advisory Member with Humanities Commons, a Governing body member with Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations and a liaison with The Association for Computers and the Humanities.

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Steven S George is a Ph.D. Scholar at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (2021-2022) and a Summer Fellow at Michigan State University, USA (2022). He has published research papers in reputed international journals and books.

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Vasundhra Dahiya is a doctoral candidate in Digital Humanities at IIT Jodhpur, India. Her research domain is Critical AI, Data & Algorithm Studies. Her research sits at the intersection of data infrastructures, cross-disciplinary pedagogies, majority world scholarship, and public policy for algorithmic justice. Her doctoral research work aims to understand algorithmic accountability for AI-driven mental health therapy chatbots from sociotechnical perspective(s). She is a HASTAC (pronounced as hay-stack) scholar (2022-2024), and an active executive committee member at DHARTI since 2021. She, along with her colleagues Sharanya Ghosh, Lavanya Dahiya, and Aanya Chadha, is a joint recipient of the prestigious Paul Fortier Prize (Best Paper award) at the DH2023 annual conference of ADHO held at the University of Graz, Austria for their work on the current Digital Humanities curricular and pedagogical trends in Indian higher education institutions. They are also the first team (and an all women team!) from the Global South to receive this award.

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Soni Wadhwa currently teaches Literature Studies at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh. She works in digital humanities projects that support her larger research area of Sindhi Studies. Three of her digital projects are active. One is PG Sindhi Library which is a digital archive of Sindhi literature published in India. Another is Sindhi Halchal Archive which is dedicated to advertisements published in Sindhi books and magazines published in India. Sindhi Sanchaya is her project devoted to collecting information about libraries and institutions that are home to Sindhi books, for which she has been collecting oral histories from custodians of different libraries and collections. Through her YouTube space @soniarchivist, she strives to disseminate perspectives on Sindhi identity. Her research publications include a study on the open movement in India, digital libraries, technology for language revitalisation, and the making of her archive.

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Vinayak Das Gupta is an Associate Professor at Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence. His work sits at the intersection of digital humanities, archival practice and cultural analytics. He has published on visual culture, digital infrastructures, literary method, and the politics of memory. He has supervised a range of interdisciplinary projects at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His digital work includes large-scale text collation, public memory archives, and collaborative history projects. He is also the creator of anvay, a web-based platform for topic modelling Bengali texts. His current research focuses on memory projects, curation, cultures of technology, and digital infrastructures for the humanities.

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Himanshu Sihag is a Doctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at IIT Jodhpur, where he works on machine translation for low-resource languages. His academic background comprises two Bachelors, one in Social Sciences and another in Education, a Masters in English Literature, and a PGP in Data Science & Business Analytics. He has experience in teaching, research and IT, having worked at Chandigarh University and Haptik Inc. (now JIO-HAPTIK). He also founded and ran startups such as Noble Literature Classes, Noble Homestays, and Ajoobay. He has presented his work at multiple conferences and helped organise two international conferences, including the DHARTI 2024 Biennial Conference. His research lies at the intersection of NLP, computational linguistics, and digital archiving where he works with native communities and speakers to document, analyse, digitalise, and revitalise underserved Indian languages. Presently he is working on varieties of Haryanvi, Bagri, Sansi and Bhili spoken in Rajasthan and Haryana to build a framework for responsible and green Machine Translation.

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Past Members

Dr Nirmala Menon is an Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Discipline of English, IIT Indore. She is the Chair of the newly established Jay Prakash Narayan National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities. She leads the Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, India. Menon is the author of Migrant Identities of Creole Cosmopolitans: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality (Peter Lang Publishing, Germany, 2014) and Remapping the Postcolonial Canon: Remap, Reimagine, Retranslate (Palgrave Macmillan, UK 2017). She is the Co-Editor of the first multilingual Volume of E-literature published from India, Ubiquity Press, 2023 . She is Co-Editor of the forthcoming Learning by Practice: Digital Humanities Projects from India to be published by Routledge UK in 2023. Apart from the books, she has published more than 50 research papers in numerous international journals (Oxford University Press, Taylor and Francis, Sage among others) and speaks, writes and publishes about postcolonial studies, digital Humanities and scholarly publishing. She is the Project Director for KSHIP (Knowledge Sharing in Publishing), an Open Access Publishing platform. Dr Menon has received various national and international grants and awards ( MHRD, SPARC, UKEIRI, Academia Europaea among others). As Vice President of CenterNet (Consortium of Digital Humanities Research Groups globally), Dr Menon has put DH in India on the global map. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) , Advisory Board member of Ubiquity Press, UK and Advisory Board Member, Open Access India and Chair, (2016-17) CLCS Global South Forum, Modern Language Association (MLA). Dr Menon is one the founder members and current President of Digital Humanities Alliance in Research and Teaching Innovation (DHARTI). She is an Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) and Series Editor for Routledge Digital Scholarship Series, Digital Art and Humanities Series and DH in Asia series.

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Maya Dodd currently serves as the Director of the FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research at FLAME University, Pune, India. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and subsequent post-doctoral fellowships at Princeton University and JNU, India. She teaches digital cultures in the Department of Humanities and has pioneered teaching Digital Humanities (DH) in the liberal arts at the undergraduate level, and also supervises doctoral students for DH study in India. Through the Ownership of Public History in India grant from the British Academy she has been exploring tools for cultural archiving via techniques from DH. She serves as an editor for the Routledge series on Digital Humanities in Asia. In collaboration, she is currently developing a new project on digitising Pune’s Architectural History from 1920-1980. She is also commissioning editor of Digital Humanities in Asia series. She serves on the global advisory board of the University of Rochester’s Humanities in the World program and on the editorial boards of the journal, Public Humanities published by Cambridge University Press and the Edinburgh University Press IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities . She is a founding director of the India based section-8 non-profit firm, Milli Archives Foundation. Since 2018, she has served to build digital humanities scholarship via the DHARTI collective, an ADHO constituent member since 2023. On “x” her handle is @mayadodd

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Jyothi Justin is a doctoral scholar with the Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group at IIT Indore, India. She hails from an English and Comparative Literature background. She completed her master’s on the same from Pondicherry University. Born and raised in a small coastal village of Kollam (Kerala, India), she is interested in exploring the intersections between literary works and digital media. She is particularly interested in using digital mapping tools for literary research. She has been using GIS for her research on female survivors of Dalit massacres in which she aims to utilize geospatial tools to give visibility to indigenous communities (especially Dalit women of India). Besides her interest in literature and films, Jyothi is also interested in gender studies and gender movements, especially feminism and queer studies. As a result, she is also interested in films and other visual narratives with similar themes. Jyothi has published on the topics Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism, ecocriticism, Digital Humanities among others. She is an executive member of the Digital Humanities Alliance in Research and Teaching Innovation (DHARTI) and the peer-review editor at dhq. She is a HASTAC Scholar (2023-2025) and a CLS INFRA TNA fellow.

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