Roopika Risam

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Roopika Risam
Alma mater Emory University (Ph.D.)
Georgetown University (M.A.)
University of Pennsylvania (M.A.)
Occupation(s)Associate Professor, Dartmouth College
Notable workNew Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (2018)

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. She was formerly Chair of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education at Salem State University. [1] She is a scholar of digital and postcolonial humanities.

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Education

In 2003, Risam earned her B.A. in Creative Writing and South Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her M.A., with distinction, from Georgetown University in 2007 and her Ph.D. in English from Emory University in 2013.

Work

Risam's work focuses on the intersections between postcolonial humanities and ethnic studies. [2] She is the co-director of Reanimate, "an intersectional publishing collective that produces multimodal editions of archival writings by activist women in media." [3] She has published articles in First Monday [4] and Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. [5] She has also included writing in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies [6] and the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media. [7]

In 2018, Risam was awarded the inaugural Massachusetts Library Association's Civil Liberties Champion Award for her work on "Torn Apart/Separados", a digital humanities project documenting the sites of immigrant detention centers in the United States. [8] [9] She also released her first book, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, [10] from Northwestern University Press in 2018.

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References

  1. "Roopika Risam | Salem State University Directory". directory.salemstate.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  2. "Postcolonial DH: An Interview with Roopika Risam". HASTAC. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  3. "Welcome to Reanimate! - Reanimate". reanimatepublishing.org. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  4. Risam, Roopika (2018-03-01). "Diversity work and digital carework in higher education". First Monday. 23 (3). doi: 10.5210/fm.v23i3.8241 .
  5. Risam, Roopika (2015). "Gender, Globalization, and the Digital Humanities". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. 8.
  6. The encyclopedia of postcolonial studies. Ray, Sangeeta,, Schwarz, Henry,, Villacañas Berlanga, J. L.,, Moreiras, Alberto,, Shemak, April Ann. Chichester, West Sussex. 2016-02-16. ISBN   9781444334982. OCLC   921422953.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. Encyclopedia of social movement media. Downing, John (John Derek Hall). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications. 2011. ISBN   9781452266329. OCLC   680229933.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. Dreyfuss, Emily (2018-06-25). "'ICE Is Everywhere': Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  9. Hughes, Morgan. "Salem State researcher a 'champion' of social justice - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  10. Roopika, Risam (2018-11-15). New digital worlds : postcolonial digital humanities in theory, praxis, and pedagogy. Evanston, Illinois. ISBN   9780810138872. OCLC   1066067721.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)