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Digital Humanities and Publishing Studies Research Group

Dr. Shanmugapriya T.

Assistant Professor (Digital Humanities) IIT (ISM)Dhanbad

About
Academic and Research Contributions
  • Publications
    • Book proposal under preparation
      • Shanmugapriya, T. (eds.) 2024. Navigating Local Challenges with Minimal Computing: The ‘Jugaad’ Approach of Indian Digital Humanities. (submitted)
      • Publishers expressed interest: Routledge: Digital Arts in the Humanities and Open Book Publishers, UK
    • Special Issues in Journal (Submission/preparation)
      • Samya Brata Roy, Astrid Ensslin, Shanmugapriya T, Zahra Rizvi. (eds.) 2024. “India, Digital, LiteratureS: forms and (dis)contents”, special issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. (accepted and in-progress)
      • Shanmugapriya T, Patricia Murrieta-Flores. (eds). “Multimodal analysis and Computational Applications: Opportunities and Challenges in Global South Digital Humanities” special issue of Journal of Cultural Analytics. (accepted and in-progress)
      • Shanmugapriya T, Simran Bhimjyani, Mehul Kumar Desai, and Saradindu Mandal (eds). “Digital Futures: Archives, AI, and Access in Indian Digital Humanities” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing . (accepted and in-progress)
      • Shanmugapriya T and Patricia Murrieta-Flores. (eds). “Digitization and Machine Learning in the Global South: Building Computational Futures and Addressing Challenges” Digital Humanities Quarterly (submitted)
    • Editorial Book Published
      • Menon, Nirmala., Shanmugapriya, T., Joseph, Justy and Sutton, Deborah. (eds.) 2023. Indian Electronic Literature Anthology: Volume I. India: IITI KSHIP. DOI: https://doi.org/10.57004/book1.
    • Peer-reviewed Journals (Submitted, Under Review Accepted and Published)
      • Simran Bhimjyani, Mehul Kumar Desai and Shanmugapriya T. “Narrating Nature in the Digital Age: Exploring Indian Eco-Electronic Literature.” New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (accepted)
      • T., Shanmugapriya. ‘Lost Water! Remainscape?’ Reviews in Digital Humanities.
      • T., Shanmugapriya. ‘Tusitala Books’. Reviews in Digital Humanities.
      • T., Shanmugapriya. ‘Tamil Digital Heritage Collection’. Reviews in Digital Humanities.
      • T., Shanmugapriya. “Stories Of Old Reservoirs: A Lake Look Like A Fish But No Water For Decades.” Arcadia (Revision submitted).
      • T., Shanmugapriya. “Developing Computational Models for Formalizing Concepts in the British Colonial India Corpus.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol. 17, No 3, 2023. URL: https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/3/000724/000724.html
      • T., Shanmugapriya. “From Uncertainty to Action: Recalibrating Digital and Spatial Humanities Methods and Tools for Non-standard Historical Data from Global South.” Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2023. DOI: 10.1145/3615887.3627762.
      • T., Shanmugapriya. “Review of Global Debates in the Digital Humanities Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte (eds). University of Minnesota Press, 2022, 317 pp.” Compendium, Journal of Comparative Studies, Vol. 3, July 2023, pp.123-126. DOI:10.51427/com.jcs.2022.0037.
      • T., Shanmugapriya and Deborah Sutton. “‘Lost water! Remains Scape?’: Transformation Waterscapes in Coimbatore from past to present through digital poetry.” ELO 2021 Conference and Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic, Electronic Book Review, 2022 (Peer-reviewed conference proceeding).
    • Book Chapters
      • T., Shanmugapriya and Deborah Sutton. “The Digital Poetics of Lost Waterscapes in Coimbatore, South India” In Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities edited by Luke Bergmann, Arlene Crampsie, Deborah Dixon, Steven Hartman, Robert Legg, Francis Ludlow and Charles Travis. Routledge, 2022.
      • T., Shanmugapriya, Nirmala Menon and Deborah Sutton. “Quantitative Stepwise Analysis of Indian English Novels 1947-2017.” In Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India edited by Nishat Zaidi and A Sean Pue. Routledge, 2022.
    • Media, Magazine, Blog And Interview
Research projects
  • Convenor: International Conference on Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence on 31st January- 1st February 2025, JPN National Center sponsored (₹70,000)
  • 2024-2026: From Uncertainty to Action: Recalibrating Digital Humanities Methods and Tools for Non-standard British Colonial South India Data, JPN Center, PI: Shanmugapriya T (₹350,000)
  • 2024-2026: Developing an Alternative Access to Cultural Heritage: A Digital Archive of Naga Oral Heritage, JPN Center, Co-PI: Shanmugapriya T, PI: Watitula Long Kumer (₹400,000)
Awards and academic recognitions
  • Academic Appointment
    • 2024: Assistant Professor (Digital Humanities and Digital Literature), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad.
    • 2022-2024: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada.
    • 2022-2023: Instructor, Arts, Media and Culture, University of Toronto Scarborough
    • 2022-2023: Instructor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
    • 2020-21: AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of History, Lancaster University, UK.
  • Digital Humanities Research Consultant
    • 2022-2024 Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough
Research Grants, Fellowships And Awards
  • 2025-British Academy Visiting Fellow, Lancaster University, UK
  • 2024- ADHO Travel Bursary Award, George Mason University, USA
  • 2024 -2026: From Uncertainty to Action: Recalibrating Digital Humanities Methods and Tools for Non-standard British Colonial South India Data, JPN Center, PI: Shanmugapriya T (₹350,000)
  • 2024 -2026: Developing an Alternative Access to Cultural Heritage: A Digital Archive of Naga Oral Heritage, JPN Center, Co-PI: Shanmugapriya T (₹400,000)
  • 2021-2022: Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellowship, Washington State University Vancouver, USA ($500)
  • Scholarships And Conference And Workshop Travel Grants
    • 2024: ADHO Travel Bursary to DH 2024: Reinvention & Responsibility, The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, USA, August 6-9, 2024($900).
    • 2023: Travel Grant to visit Historical archives Pondicherry by ‘Reimagining the ‘Good City’ from Ennore Creek, Chennai’, University of Westminster, funded by The British Academy ($1709)
    • 2023: Travel Grant to attend the 31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023) Hamburg, Germany, November 13 – 16, 2023 (Declined). ($1000)
    • 2023: Travel Grant to deliver in person talk at Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, September 26, 2023. (€1636)
    • 2023: Travel Grant to attend Digital Humanities Research Engineering Summer School, Center of Digital Humanities, Cambridge University, Alan Turing and King’s College by Critical Digital Humanities Initiative and Jackman Humanities Initiative, University of Toronto, Cambridge University, 24-26 July 2023. ($ 2500)
  • Review Editor
    • 2024: Digital Humanities Quarterly
  • Editor
    • 2024: Nature-Springer: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
    • 2025: Digital Humanities Intersections
  • Topic Editor
    • 2023-2024: Special Issue On Im/Mobilities, Migration And Digital Humanities With Frontiers In Sociology And Cross-Listing With Frontiers In Human Dynamics
  • REVIEWER
    • 2024: Frontiers in Sociology
    • 2023-present: Reviews in Digital Humanities
    • 2022-present: Digital Humanities Quarterly
    • 2023-present: Electronic Book Review
    • 2023-present: Springer Nature— Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Digital and Creative Productions Conferences, Workshops, and Collaborations
  • Keynote, Invited, Plenary Talks And Lectures
    • An Introduction to Digital Humanities. Invited talk in Faculty of Liberal Arts, ICFAI University Tripura, April 3, 2024.
    • Quantitative Analysis of Indian English Novels. Invited talk in Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, March 21, 2024.
    • Barriers in access: Issues concerning to digital creative arts in India, Keynote speech in the ELO (Un)conference: Access Works! 2024, January 18-20, 2024.
    • An Introduction to Text Mining, Digital Humanities Online Workshop, Department of English, University of Hyderabad in collaboration with IWE Online, December 14, 2023.
    • Digital Literature and Public Sphere, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, September 26, 2023.
    • Critical Making of Contemporary Information through Digital-born Creative Works, Lightening Lunch, Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, University of Toronto, September 19, 2023.
    • An Introduction to Text Mining Faculty Development Program on Digital Humanities, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, September 9, 2023.
  • Conducted And Offered Workshops And Seminars
    • Seminar On Dh Careers Opportunities, Iit (Ism) Dhanbad, April 17, 2024. (Conducted)
    • Workshop On Qgis, Department Of History, University Of Toronto, April 5, 2023. (Conducted And Offered)
    • Workshop On Text Mining, Department Of Historical And Cultural Studies, University Of Toronto, March 30, 2023. (Conducted And Offered)
  • Conference Organizing
    • International Conference On ‘Navigating Local Challenges In Digiatl Humanities Of Majority World’ 2024, Sponsor: Jharkhand Council On Science, Technology And Innovation, Indian Institute Of Technology (Ism) Dhanbad (In Preparation).
  • Program Committee
    • Part of Program Committee of 2024 Biennial Conference of Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI) in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
  • Selected National And International Conference Acceptance And Presentation
    • “Recalibrating Digital Humanities Methods and Tools for Non-standard Historical Data from Global South”, Digital Humanities Institute, The University of Sheffield, September 4-5, 2024 (Accepted and Upcoming).
    • “Digital Humanities Approaches for Unconventional Historical Data in the Global South”, ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2024: Reinvention & Responsibility, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Annual Conference, The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, United States, August 6-9, 2024 (Accepted and Upcoming).
  • Participated In The National And International Workshops, Summer And Winter Schools
    • Participating in The Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School 2024, Oxford University, August 12, 2024 (Upcoming).
    • Participated in DHSI 2023 Workshop: Outside of the Box – Online Tools for HSS, University of Victoria, Canada. June 9-16, 2023.
THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICES AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN/ON POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE: NARRATIVE, PUBLISHING AND PRAXIS.
Assistant Professor (Digital Humanities) IIT (ISM)Dhanbad
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