Nirmala Menon's Talk on Postcolonial Digital Humanities

Nirmala Menon is Chair Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, where she leads the Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group and serves as Chair of the JPN National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities. She is also an Affiliate Research professor with the University of Oxford and currently a Fulbright Fellow with Northeastern University, Boston, MA, for the year 2025-26. Her research spans interdisciplinary areas such as postcolonial studies, digital humanities, and multilingual scholarly publishing, with a sustained focus on decolonizing knowledge infrastructures. Menon is the author of Migrant Identities of Creole Cosmopolitans (Peter Lang, 2014) and Remapping the Postcolonial Canon (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and co-editor of the first multilingual volume of electronic literature published from India. Her recent book, Practices of Digital Humanities in India: Learning by Doing, edited with Maya Dodd, looks at DH projects conceptualised and contextualised in India. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Digital Humanities Intersections (DHI) and serves on the editorial boards of Digital Humanities Quarterly and several Routledge book series. She is a founding member of DHARTI (Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations), has been a Governing Board member of ADHO, Vice President of CenterNet, and is also serving on various national research committees.

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