Plenary Talk Speakers

1. Speaker: Dr. Maya Dodd

  Presentation Title: Locating A New Historiography for India: Digital Archives and Public History

Bio: Maya Dodd directs the FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research at FLAME University in Pune.  She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and subsequent post-doctoral fellowships at Princeton University and JNU, India. She teaches digital cultures and as a founding member of DHARTI and Director of Milli Archives Foundation in India, she has been actively building digital humanities scholarship in India over a decade.

2. Speaker: Dr. Setsuko Yokoyama

           Presentation Title: Digital Humanities for Non-Normative Engineering Education

Bio: Setsuko Yokoyama is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Her current book project is about a literary history of speech-to-text technology, which reimagines the contemporary discourse on fairness in automated speech recognition (ASR) systems. Drawing from archival records of American literary artists who negotiated questions of race, gender, class, disability status, and national origin as they rendered folk speech sounds to text, her work argues speech-to-text remediation as editorial labor and contests the current software engineering workflow that assumes ASR data labeling work as low-wage, menial labor.

3. Speaker: Dr. Vinayak Dasgupta

Presentation Title: Mathematization of the Arts

Bio: Vinayak Das Gupta is Associate Professor at Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence. He has worked on a number of Digital Humanities projects including Bichitra, Letters of 1916, and Contested Memories: Battle of Mount Street Bridge. His research interests include public memory and digital collections, statistical analysis of literary texts, and philosophy of technology.

4. Speaker: Dr.Dibyadyuti Roy
   
   

Presentation Title: The Future of DH is not DH: Anxieties, Affordances and Approaches in the Age of AI 

Bio: Dibyadyuti Roy is currently the Programme Director of the BA in Cultural and Media Studies Programme and an Assistant Professor at the University of Leeds.  He has previously held faculty positions at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore as well as at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur. Dr. Roy ‘s interests advance data-driven humanistic inquiry,  with a particular focus on the impact of digitality within marginalized communities, especially in Global Majority regions. He is the Vice-President and founding member of the Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI), and a Research affiliate with the renowned US-based think tank, the Data and Society Research Institute (USA). 

5. Speaker: Prof. Nirmala Menon

Presentation Title: Building Sustainable and Accessible Knowledge Infrastructures for Scholarly Publishing in India

Bio: Nirmala Menon is a Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS),   IIT Indore. She leads the Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, India. Prof Menon is the Chair of the newly established J P Narayan National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities which focuses on developing research in Digital Humanities and Environmental Humanities at IIT Indore. She is also Associate Dean of Administration at IIT Indore. While her primary area of research is Postcolonial studies and Digital Humanities, Globalization and Translation studies are additional areas of research. Dr Menon is Constituent Organisation Board (COB) member of ADHO as the founder member and current President of Digital Humanities Alliance in Research and Teaching Innovation (DHARTI). 

6. Speaker: Dr. Shanmugapriya T.

Presentation Title: Formalizing Concepts in the British Colonial India Corpus: A 

Computational Modeling Approach

Bio: Shanmugapriya T is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Digital  Literature in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. She was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)(2022–2024) and an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK (2020–2021). Shanmu’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of digital humanities, digital environmental studies, and digital literature, focusing on South Asia, colonial and postcolonial studies, text mining, mapping, and digital-born creative works. She is an interim executive committee and Governing Body member of DHARTI, as well as a Board of Director of the Electronic Literature Organization, and was a SPARC Fellow at Lancaster University (2019). 

7. Speaker: Prof. Leonardo L Flores

Presentation Title: Digital Writing and Access: Using AI to Bridge Digital Divides

Bio: Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. His research areas are electronic literature, with a focus on e-poetry, digital writing, and the history and strategic growth of the field. He’s known for I ♥ E-Poetry, the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, “Third Generation Electronic Literature” and the Antología Lit(e)Lat, Volume 1. He is a member of the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on AI and Writing. 

8. Speaker: Dr. Mayurakshi Chaudhuri

Presentation Title: Intersectional Im/Mobilities and Production of the Digital Subject in India 

Bio: Dr. Mayurakshi Chaudhuri is Associate Professor of Sociology and Digital Humanities and the Head of the Department of Social Sciences in the FLAME School of Liberal Education at FLAME University, Pune. Dr. Chaudhuri's research areas include Migrations and Mobility Studies, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities, Technology and Society, Historical Sociology, and Qualitative Research Methods. Dr. Chaudhuri is also the Founding Faculty of Digital Humanities programs (M.Sc. and Ph.D) at IIT Jodhpur.

9. Speaker: Dr. Souvik Mukherjee

Presentation Title: Provincializing Game Studies: The Global, Local, Regional and Transcultural in Researching Video games

Bio: Souvik Mukherjee is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India. Souvik’s research looks at the narrative and the literary through the emerging discourse of video games as storytelling media and at how these games inform and challenge our conceptions of narratives, identity and culture. Souvik is the author of three monographs, Videogames and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books (Palgrave Macmillan 2015), Videogames and Postcolonialism: Empire Plays Back (Springer UK 2017) and Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations (Bloomsbury India 2022)