Roopika Risam is an associate professor of film and media studies and of comparative literature and faculty in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

. She is a scholar of digital and

postcolonial Postcolonialism is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. More specifically, it is a ...

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

Education

In 2003, Risam earned her B.A. in Creative Writing and South Asian Studies from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. She earned her M.A., with distinction, from

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

in 2007 and her Ph.D. in English from

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

in 2013.

Work

Risam's work focuses on the intersections between postcolonial humanities and

ethnic studies Ethnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by indivi ...

. She is the co-director of ''Reanimate'', "an intersectional publishing collective that produces multimodal editions of archival writings by activist women in media." She has published articles in ''First Monday'' and ''Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.'' She has also included writing in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies and the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media. In 2018, Risam was awarded the inaugural Massachusetts Library Association's Civil Liberties Champion Award for her work o
"Torn Apart/Separados
, a digital humanities project documenting the sites of immigrant detention centers in the United States. She also released her first book, ''New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy,'' from

Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press is an American publishing house affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It publishes 70 new titles each year in the areas of continental philosophy, poetry, Slavic and German literary criticism ...

in 2018.

Books

* ''New digital worlds : postcolonial digital humanities in theory, praxis, and pedagogy''. Northwestern University Press, 2018. * (ed. with Barbara Bordalejo) ''Intersectionality in Digital Humanities''. ARC Humanities Press, 2019. * (ed. with Rahul K. Gairola) ''South Asian digital humanities : postcolonial mediations across technology's cultural canon''. Routledge, 2020. * (ed. with Kelly Baker Josephs) ''The Digital Black Atlantic''. University of Minnesota Press, 2021

References

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