Volume 2

Preface

Electronic literature (e-lit) has advanced into a domain of inquiry that both inhabits and expands the methodologies of digital humanities (DH). E-lit has become central to DH as it synthesises cultural expression, computational media, and narrative form, modelling how literature might be reconceived in an algorithmic age. Contemporary scholarship emphasises…

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Works

Editors

Professor 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 Jay Prakash Narayan National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities. Her research spans interdisciplinary areas such as postcolonial studies, digital humanities, and multilingual scholarly publishing, with a sustained focus on decolonizing knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Nirmala 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. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Digital Humanities Intersections 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) and currently serves as Vice President of CenterNet. Prof. Nirmala has published extensively in leading international journals and led numerous nationally and internationally funded projects that advance digital and multilingual scholarship.

Justy Joseph is Visiting Assistant Professor at Ashoka University and serves as CE for KSHIP, IITI. She works at the intersections of Digital Humanities, Electronic Literature, Publishing Studies, Partition Studies, and Digital Subaltern Studies. She has contributed to projects such as the Multilingual Literature Research (MLR) Database and Knowledge Sharing in Publishing (KSHIP) and holds a Ph.D. in Digital Humanities from IIT Indore. Justy also serves as the Managing Editor of the journal Digital Humanities Intersections. Her publications advance critical discussions on knowledge infrastructures, computational text analysis, AI ethics, electronic literature, and digital subaltern studies, and have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. She has held visiting research positions at the University of Oxford and Lancaster University.

Shanmugapriya T is an Assistant Professor (Digital Humanities) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. She was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada, from 2022 to 2024. She was an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK, from 2020 to 2021. She has also been a SPARC Visiting Researcher and a British Academy Visiting Fellow in the Department of History at Lancaster University in 2019 and 2025. Her research and teaching interests include an interdisciplinary focus on digital humanities, digital environmental humanities, and digital literature. She earned her Ph.D. in Indian English Literature and Digital Humanities from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. She currently serves as Secretary of DHARTI and as a Board Director of the Electronic Literature Organization.