Dr. Jyothi Justin

List of Publications (peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, etc.)

• Justin, Jyothi and Nirmala Menon. “Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism Case Study II: the Kilvenmani Massacre”. Cartographica: University of Toronto Press, (UTP), Vol. 59 Issue 2, pp. 47-66, July 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/cart-2023-0012. Published: 29/07/24.
• Justin, Jyothi and Nirmala Menon. “Spatial Hypertexts: A Proposal for Using Maps as Hypertexts in Spatial Archives”. In the Special Issue on “Spatial Humanities: Perspectives from the Library”. Journal of Map & Geography Libraries. Routledge: Taylor&Francis Group, Vol 19, Issue 1-2, pp 55-71, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2024.2339866. Published Online: 18/04/2024.
• Bala, Apsara, Jyothi Justin, and Nirmala Menon. “Towards Acknowledgement and Accreditation of Digital Labour in Digital Humanities – A Case Study from Emerging Indian Digital Humanities Projects”. Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 14(1): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.9952. Published: 15/05/2024.
• Justin, Jyothi and Nirmala Menon. “Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism: A Case Study of Marichjhapi Massacre”. Cartographica: University of Toronto Press, (UTP), Vol. 58 Issue 3, pp. 95-115, September 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/cart-2022-0022. Published: 11/10/23.
• Justin, Jyothi and Nirmala Menon. “Towards a Theoretical and Legal Framework for Dalit Massacre”. Contemporary Voice of Dalits. Sage Journals, 2023. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X231209627. Published: 26/11/2023.
• Justin, Jyothi and Nirmala Menon. “Reproducibility of Indian DH Projects: A Case Study”. International Journal of Digital Humanities (IJDH). Springer Nature, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-023-00071-0. Published: 05/10/2023.
• Joseph, Justy, Kaviarasu. P, Jyothi Justin and Nirmala Menon. “Digital Humanities Workshops in India: Effective Organizing Pedagogies and Sustainable Contributions to Academia”. In “Digital Humanities Workshops”. Digital Research in Arts and Humanities, Routledge Publications, pp 48-55, First Edition: 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003301097-6.
• Justin, Jyothi and Nirmala Menon. “Decolonising Ngannelong: A Geocritical Approach to Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock and Its Visual Adaptations”. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture. Routledge: Taylor&Francis Group, Vol. 70, No.1, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20512856.2023.2221964. Published: 27/06/2023.
• Justin, Jyothi and Nirmala Menon. “Indian Intersectional Ecofeminism and Sustainability: A Study on Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior and Jharkhand’s Save the Forest Movement”. Journal of Ecohumanism, Transnational Press of London, UK. Vol. 1, No. 2, pp 123-137, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joe.v1i2.2417. Published: 31/07/2022.
• Justin, Jyothi and Nirmala Menon. “Using Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism in Literary Studies – A Proposal”. In Conference Proceedings of ACM Digital Library, 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities’21), Beijing, China, 2021, 7 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3486187.3490201.

Conference Presentations (oral/poster, international/national)

• “Cartographies of Courage: Fictional Threads, Real Lives: Towards Creating a Spatial Archive of the Female Survivors of Dalit Massacres in India” at Code, Culture, Critique: New Junctures in Digital Humanities Conference, 11 – 13 June 2025, Organised by Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) Trivandrum.
• “Building the First Spatial Archive of Female Survivors of Dalit Massacres in India: Opportunities and Obstacles” at the Women and Gender Minorities in DH: Building Community by Coming Together Panel at ACH’25 (11-13 June 2025) Virtual Conference on 11 June 2025 – 10.30PM IST or 1PM EDT.
• “Digitally Mapping Female Survivors of Dalit Massacres: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches” at Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina (DHC-NC) 2025 Digital Humanities Institute – held from April 4-5, 2025 | Online via Zoom |
• “Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism: A Case Study of Marichjhapi Massacre” at UNED-LINHD TNA Mini Conference as part of CLS INFRA TNA Fellowship. On 24 April, 2024, 10.30-11.00am CEST.
• “Using Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism in Literature: Locating the Women of Kilvenmani Massacre (1968)” at UNED-LINHD Spring 2024 Seminar Series as an Exchange researcher of the CLS INFRA project of the European infrastructure DARIAH.EU on 17 April 2024.
• “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.
• “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.

Awards, Grants, and Academic Achievements

• CLS INFRA TNA Fellowship to UNED – LiNHD, Madrid (Spain) for the project “Seeing the Unseen: Locating the Women of Independent India’s Unheard Dalit Massacres” 2024.
• HASTAC Scholar – HASTAC Scholars Fellowship Program 2023-2025.
• IIT Indore Best Research Paper Award in Humanities and Social Sciences 2024 for “Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism: A Case Study of Marichjhapi Massacre”. Cartographica: University of Toronto Press, (UTP), Vol. 58 Issue 3, pp. 95-115, September 2023.
• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), UGC.

Workshops Attended or Organized

• Offered:
  • Offered a workshop on QGIS entitled “Text to Map: QGIS for Digital Humanities Workshop” at DHARTI 2024 biennial conference themed ‘Digital Subject/ivities in the Global South’ hosted at Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (IIT-J) on December 10-13, 2024 together with Dr. Shanmugapriya, Barkha Rani Lakra and Simran Bhimjyani.
• Attended:
  • Workshops by the 1947 Partition Archives for trainings in becoming citizen historian and collecting oral histories.
  • “ESRI workflow training workshop, ArcGIS pro and online”, 05-07.06.2024, 9.30am to 5.30pm IST.
  • “Map and Present your Data with Peripleo: Tutorial Session”, Ninth Linked Pasts symposium (LP9), British Library, 11-12 December, 2023 (Online).
  • “Hands on training in the art of cartography: Introduction to QGIS & preparation of effective maps for data driven decision making”, organised by IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Student Branch Chapter IIT Indore in collaboration with IEEE GRSS MP Section, 6 Dec, 2023 (In-person).
  • “Finding Ways: Stakes and Strategies in South Asian Cartography”, hybrid workshop at Vanderbilt University, 18-20 May, 2023 (online).
  • “Summer School for Literary Studies & Digital Humanities” by Leiden University Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, KU Leuven held from 20-23 June, 2022 (online).
  • “Under-Mapped Spaces: New Methods and Tools for Critical Storytelling with Maps” (Workshop) by Stanford University, and co-hosted by the David Rumsey Map Center and Stanford Geospatial Center, and Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections held from 28 Feb – 04 March, 2022 (online).

Other Digital Academic Contributions

• “Mapping Digital Humanities in/or India: Access, Tools and Criticism” Online International Workshop by Department of English at Jamia Milia Islamia and HSS Department at IIT Indore, 16-18 October, 2020.
• Cartographies of Courage: Fictional Threads, Real Lives, an open-access spatial archive on the female survivors of selected Dalit massacres in independent India. https://mappingmassacres.iiti.ac.in/

Website https://sites.google.com/view/jyothijustin Key words describing research interests Dalit Studies, Feminist Geocriticism, Digital cartography, Spatial Humanities, Digital Humanities.