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Digital Humanities and Publishing Studies Research Group

Dr. Shaifali Arora

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Academic and Research Contributions
  • Arora, Shaifali and Nirmala Menon. “Narratives of Cultural Violence in 1947 Partition: “Environmental Upheaval” and Ethnic-linguistic Shift,” Contemporary South Asia, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), March 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2025.2460616
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Subregional Memories of an Undivided Rural Punjab: Community, Culture and Identity among Hindus of Bahawalpur,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), December, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2023.2276566
  • Arora, Shaifali. Memories and Postmemories of Partition of India by Anjali Gera Roy (Book Review), Contemporary South Asia, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), March 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2170532
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Documenting History, Language and Culture: 1947 Partition, Oral History and Digital Humanities,” Language, Culture and Digital Media: Emerging Trends and Challenges, Amity University Madhya Pradesh, ISBN: 978-93-5445-104-1, March 2021.
  • Arora, Shaifali and Nirmala Menon. “Ethnic Renewal: Identity Formations among Current Generation Hindu Migrants of Punjab of 1947 Partition.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, vol. 11, no. 3, 2019, pp. 1-12. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.15.
  • Chowdhary, Reema, Shaifali Arora and Nirmala Menon “Designing a Visual Palimpsest through Film: A Critical Examination of Jodha Akbar and the Nationalist Narrative.” South Asian Popular Culture, Taylor & Francis Online, vol. 16, no.2-3, 2018, pp. 253-262. DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746689.2019.1565327
  • Arora, Shaifali, and Nirmala Menon. “The ‘Reproductive’ Body: Dis/locating Identities in the film Parched.” Asian Journal of English Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, 2017.
  • Shanmugapriya T., Shaifali Arora and Nirmala Menon. “Developing Database for Scholarship in Indian Languages and Literatures.” Asian Quarterly: An International Journal of Contemporary Issues (AQ), vol. 15, no. 1, 2017, pp. 85-99.
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Intertextual and Extratextual Evolution: Reading The Color Purple.” Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, vol. 5 no 3, 2014, pp. 118- 24.
Conferences, Workshops, and Collaborations
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Revisiting 1947 Partition and Displacement: Subjective and “Intangible” Experiences of Hindu Migrants of Bahawalpur.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, May 2022.
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Intergenerational Transmission of Partition Memory: Tracing Ethnic and Language Renewal in “Familial” Sites.” Memory in Transition: Intersection, Contestation, and Futures, IISER Bhopal, 03-05 March 2022.
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Beyond Immediate Research Objectives: Exploring Orality and Digitality of Partition History.” Oral History in the Digital World, 7 th Annual Conference of Oral History Association of India, 04-05 March 2022.
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Revisiting the 1947 Partition and Displacement: Subjective and “Intangible” Experiences of Hindu Migrants of Bahawalpur.” Crisis, Community and Oral History, 6th Annual Conference of Oral History Association of India, 06-07 March 2021.
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Documenting History, Language and Culture: 1947 Partition, Oral History and Digital Humanities,” International Conference on Language, Culture and Digital Media: Emerging Trends and Challenges, Amity University Madhya Pradesh, January 2021.
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Cultural and Language Identity formations in the post- partition South Asia: A special case of Bahawalpuri Hindus,” Association of Asian Studies in Asia Conference, New Delhi, July 2018.
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Partition Experiences of Bahawalpuri Hindus: History, Memory and Identity,” Partitions and Borders, University College Dublin, May 2018.
  • Arora, Shaifali. “1947Partition on the Margins: The Untold Testimonies of Sikh, Bahawalpur and Marwari Communities,” Digital Humanities 2017 international conference at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. August 2017. (Poster)
  • Arora, Shaifali. “Decolonizing Knowledge Structures in Open Access and Scholarly Publishing,” Digital Humanities 2017 international conference at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, August 2017.
  • Arora, Shaifali. “The Reproductive Body: Dis/Locating Identities in the film Parched,” International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture, Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Pune, February 2017.
  • Invited as a Key Speaker at the online workshop Mapping Digital Humanities Practice in/on India: Access, Tools & Criticism at Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi (16-18 October 2020).
  • Teacher in Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan, Ministry of Education during my PhD at IIT Indore
  • Reviewer at Alliance of Digital Humanities Annual International Conference on Digital Humanities (2018, 2019, 2020)
  • Worked with KSHIP: Knowledge Sharing in Publishing is a multilingual scholarly publishing digital project at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India (Ongoing)
  • Developed Minor Partitions: A pilot Digital Archive at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
  • Presented at “Mapping Digital Humanities Practices in/on India: Access, Tools, and Criticism: A Digital Humanities Workshop” co-organised by Jamia Milia Islamia and Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India, 16-18th October, 2020.
  • Organized and presented at the Workshop on Digitization Workflows & DigitalResearch Studies Methodologies at Indian Institute of Technology Indore in collaboration with British Library, UK, 11-12 February, 2019.
  • Organized Digital Humanities in India Workshop, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, New Delhi, April 2019.
  • Organized Digital Humanities in India Workshop, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, New Delhi, April 2018.
  • Organized GIAN course on “New Developments in Global Political Theory” Comparative, Decolonial and Indian Political Theory” held from December 04- 08, 2017.
  • Participated in GIAN course on “Contemporary Cultural Studies,” A two-week course organized by School of Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, December 2016.
  • Organized GIAN workshop on “Digital Humanities: Tools, Texts and Theory,” Indian Institute of Technology Indore, March 2016.
Fellowships, Grants, and Research Funding
  • ASEM-DUO India Student Fellowship Award, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 2020.
  • Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Language, Culture and Digital Media: Emerging Trends and Challenges, Amity University Madhya Pradesh, January 2021.
  • Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization Bursary Award for participation in the Digital Humanities 2017 Conference at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2017.
  • Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) for Assistant Professor in English.
Digital and Creative Productions
  • Developed Minor Partitions: A pilot Digital Archive at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
SPEAKING AND WRITING THE 1947 PARTITION: HISTORY, MEMORY AND LANGUAGE IN ORAL TESTIMONIES AND LITERATURE
  • arora.shaifali16@gmail.com
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaifali-arora-phd-26917580/?originalSubdomain=in
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