Practices of Digital Humanities in India: Learning by Doing

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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 digitizing Punes Architectural History from 1920 to 1980. She serves on the global advisory board of the University of Rochesters 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.Nirmala Menon is Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Discipline of English IIT Indore and Chair of the newly established Jaya Prakash Narayan National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities (jpnnationalcentre.com). 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 coeditor of the first multilingual volume of e-literature published from India Menon N. T S. Joseph J. and Sutton D. 2023. Indian Electronic Literature Anthology: Volume I. Indore India: Indian Institute of Technology Knowledge Sharing in Publishing. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.57004/book1) and also Making Open Scholarship More Equitable and Inclusive Publications 2023 11(3) 41; https://doi.org/10.3390/publications11030041. Menon is the project lead for KSHIP (Knowledge Sharing in Publishing) an IIT Indore digital humanities project in multilingual open access scholarly publishing in India. She is widely published in numerous international journals and speaks writes and publishes about postcolonial studies digital humanities and scholarly publishing.