About
I am a doctoral candidate with the
Digital Humanities and Publishing Studies Research Group, IIT Indore. My main research interests are at the intersection of Literature, Digital Humanities, Spatial Humanities and Dalit Studies. I use digital cartography and feminist geocriticism to understand the female narratives of Dalit massacres in India. I am also interested in Ecocriticism, Digital Environmental Humanities and Ecofeminism.
Projects
CLS INFRA TNA fellowship, Round 4 for the project “Seeing the Unseen: Locating the Women of Independent India’s Unheard Dalit Massacres”. Host Institution: LINHD (Laboratory of Innovation in Digital Humanities) at UNED (National University of Distance Education), Madrid, Spain. (to commence in 2024)
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
1. Presented (virtually), the paper entitled, “Reproducibility of Indian DH Projects: A Case Study” at “The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2023 on ‘Sustainability in the DH'” organised by The Digital Orientalist, 3 June, 2023.
2. Presented, the paper entitled “Seeing the Unseen: Where are the Women of Independent India’s Unheard Dalit Massacres?” at the SHSS Research Symposium 2023, organised by IIT Indore, India, on 7 January, 2023.
3.Presented (virtually), the paper entitled, “Digital Place Making: A Feminist Geocritical Reading of Marichjhapi Massacre (India) through Digital Cartography” at “The 4th Spatial Humanities 2022 Conference” organised by Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Quetelet Center for Quantitative Historical Research and Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences in collaboration with the Lancaster University Digital Humanities Centre and Digital Humanities Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 7th – 9th September, 2022.
4. Presentated (virtually), the paper entitled, “Cartographies of Caste and Gender in Dalit Massacres: A Proposal for Feminist Geocritical and Digital Cartographical Method ” at “Virtual Feminist Digital Methods Conference” organised by the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 11-13 August, 2022.
5. Presented (virtually) the paper entitled “Digital Labour in the Field of Digital Humanities in India – An Enquiry” by Apsara Bala¹ and Jyothi Justin² at the Dharthi 2022 Conference on 24 Feb, 2022 as part of the panel “Digital Labour and Data Justice in Indian Academia” on the conference theme The Digital Divides: Discontents, Debates and Discussions, 21-25 Feb., 2022.
6. Presented (virtually) the paper entitled, “Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism in Literary Studies – A Proposal” at the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021 in Beijing, China (Virtual via zoom). Also ACCEPTED for publication in Conference Proceedings of ACM Digital Library, 02 November, 2021.
7. Presented (virtually) a paper entitled, “Decolonizing the Hanging Rocks: A Geocritical Approch to Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock and its Visual Adaptations” at the Virtual International Conference, “Who Started the Bushfires?”: Australian Culture, Economy and Polity in the Post-Truth Era organized by the Postgraduate and Research Department of English, University College, Thiruvananthapuram, India and Centre for Australian Studies, University of Kerala, Littcrit and IASA (Indian Association for the Study of Australia), 15 September, 2021.
