Professor Nirmala Menon is the Institute Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, Convener of the J. P. Narayan National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities (JPN Centre), and an Affiliate Research Professor at the University of Oxford. She leads the Digital Humanities and Publishing Studies Research Group, where her research and institutional initiatives bring together Digital Humanities, Postcolonial studies, Translation Studies, Multilingual and Scholarly Publishing, and Digital Preservation to develop innovative approaches to humanities research in the digital age.

Professor Menon is internationally recognised for her contributions to Digital Humanities and for advancing the field within India through research, institutional leadership, and global collaboration. Her work explores digital archives, multilingual knowledge infrastructures, open-access scholarly publishing, digital heritage, and computational approaches to humanities scholarship, with particular attention to the epistemic and cultural contexts of the Global South. By integrating humanities scholarship with digital technologies, her research addresses questions of knowledge production, preservation, accessibility, and equitable participation in digital research ecosystems.

She is the Founding President of the Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI India) and Project Director of KSHIP (Knowledge Sharing in Publishing), an open-access publishing initiative dedicated to multilingual scholarly communication and sustainable digital publishing. Through these initiatives, she has established collaborative research networks that connect scholars, institutions, and cultural organisations across India and internationally, contributing to the growth of Digital Humanities research, training, and scholarly infrastructure.

Professor Menon has authored four scholarly books and more than sixty peer-reviewed publications and has for books and articles led numerous interdisciplinary research projects supported by national and international funding agencies, including the Ministry of Education (formerly MHRD), SPARC, UKEIRI, and Academia Europaea. She serves as Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly and Series Editor for Routledge, while contributing to the editorial and advisory boards of several international scholarly organisations and publishing initiatives.

An accomplished academic leader and mentor, Professor Menon has supervised doctoral researchers, postdoctoral fellows, Fulbright scholars, and postgraduate students across Digital Humanities, literary studies, translation, and publishing studies. Her research continues to shape interdisciplinary scholarship by developing digital knowledge infrastructures, fostering international collaborations, and creating inclusive models for humanities research and scholarly communication.