New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (2018)
Roopika Risam is an associate professor of film and media studies and of comparative literature and faculty in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster at Dartmouth College. She was formerly Chair of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education at Salem State University.[1] She is a scholar of digital and postcolonialhumanities.
Risam's work focuses on the intersections between postcolonial humanities and ethnic studies.[2] She is the co-director of Reanimate, "an intersectional publishing collective that produces multimodal editions of archival writings by activist women in media."[3] She has published articles in First Monday[4] and Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.[5] She has also included writing in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies[6] and the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media.[7]