Dr. Jyothi holds a doctorate from the Digital Humanities and Publishing Studies Research Group at IIT Indore.  Her main research interests are at the intersection of Literature, Digital Humanities, Spatial Humanities (Spatial Archiving), Dalit Studies and Digital Pedagogy. 

She uses digital cartography and feminist geocriticism to understand the female narratives of Dalit massacres in India. She is currently working on a project to create a spatial archive of the female survivors of selected Dalit massacres in India entitled Cartographies of Courage: Fictional Threads, Real Lives with the support of CLS INFRA TNA Fellowship. She is also interested in Ecocriticism, Digital Environmental Humanities, Ecofeminism and Digital Humanities Pedagogy. 

She was a HASTAC scholar (2023-2025). She was an executive member of DHARTI (Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations) for the period 2022-2025, a DH organisation based in India.  

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