FACULTY
Dr. Maya Dodd received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and subsequent post-doctoral fellowships at the Committee for South Asian Studies at Princeton University, USA and at the Centre for Law and Governance, JNU, India. In South Asian studies, a new opening for contemporary engagement with archives and digital tools has allowed for an exploration of new practices via “digital humanities” (or Dh/dh). As a means to bringing new questions in imagining cultural issues to the fore in India, especially in terms of public history, she has been associated with DH in India and her current research is focused on questions of the digital in India.
Prior to receiving her Ph.D. from Stanford University, where her dissertation, "Archives of Indian Democracy" focused on technologies of witness since the Emergency of 1975-77, she received her B.A in English Literature from St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai. She also taught Rhetoric and Composition while receiving an M.A. in English from the University of Florida and also during her graduate study at Stanford University.
Since 2007, she has been at FLAME University and has served as the Assistant Dean for Teaching, Learning and Engagement, as the Chair of the Department of Humanities and Languages, and the FLAME Centre for South Asia. At FLAME she teaches Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of Humanities. She offers several inter-disciplinary courses such as Cybercultures, Introduction to Digital Humanities (DH), South Asian Cultural Studies, Indian Law and Cultural Studies, and Indian Intellectual History. Her pedagogy can be viewed on her YouTube channel and her student work on DH is hosted at https://southasianculture.
Currently she serves as Director of the FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research and is working on a digital resource for legislative history in India. You can find her on twitter @mayadodd
- “Digital Cultures in India: Digitality and its Discontents.” in Zaidi, Nishat. ed. Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India, Routledge, 2022.. ISBN 9781032056739.
- Exploring the Digital Humanities in India. Eds. Dodd, Maya and Nidhi Kalra. Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9780367347932
- Introductory chapter co-written with anthology editor, Hyesu Park. Media, Culture, and Race Matters in Asia. Rutgers University Press, 2020. ASIN B087M327DD
- “Understanding Taste in India: From Social Systems to Digital Spaces” in intervalla Vol. 7, 2020 ISSN: 2296-3413
- Book Review of Asha Sarangi, Language and Politics in India, in “Contributions to Indian Sociology,” September/December 2011. DOI: 10.1177/006996671204700110
- “Liberalizing Education: The Quantity and Quality Debate.” Tomorrow Today (UNESCO and Tudor Rose). Nov 2010. ISBN 0953614085
- “Legitimacy and Legality: Nehruvian Statism and Individual Exceptionalism” in History and Sociology of South Asia, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 91-102. July 1, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1177/22308075100040020
- Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania’s “India In Transition” series: “Liberalizing Education.” Appeared on September 13 2010 at: http://casi.ssc.upenn.edu/iit/dodd
- “Violence Makes the Body Politic.” Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict. Eds. Anderson, Patrick and Jisha Menon. Palgrave-Macmillan, December 2008. ISBN 978-0230537262
In-press
- “Querying Info-Solutionism”. Biblio: A Review of Books.Vol. 27 Nos. 10 –12 October-December
- 2022 (In prep Monograph). Dodd, Maya. A Critical Introduction to Digital Humanities in South Asia. Routledge, UK.
- (In prep). Anthology. Learning By Doing. Routledge, India/UK. 2024. Co-edited with Dr. Nirmala Menon.
- Digital Humanities in Asia, Routledge Book Series, Taylor and Francis
- Peer Reviewer (Invited) Digital Humanities Quarterly, Convergence (Sage), Springer Book Series, Digital Formations (Peter Lang Verlag).
DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS AND OUTREACH IN MEDIA
Article: The Paradox of Open: How To Build A Better Internet. Oct 12, 2021 scroll.in
Article: “As Indians Turn to Social Media For Help. May 19, 2021.
Podcast: Prison Diaries and the Indian Emergency: The Swaddle Interviews
Video: Humanities Commons: Uploaded from the presentation on “Towards a Decolonial Indian Digital Humanities” See at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLJgOsC-8ds&t=1635s (2020)
Video: Webinar: Archives, Databases and Timelines, Exploring Digital Humanities in Connexions: A series on interdisciplinarity at FLAME University (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGaX534J-Is&t=16s
Audio and Transcript: Digital Humanities and Food Studies, Centre for Internet and Society Researchers at Work (RAW) Conference, https://medium.com/rawblog/digitalpedagogies-ebda95720926 (2019)
Poster: Re-thinking Regions: Comparative Food Studies in Digital South Asia https://repository.brynmawr.edu/blended_learning/2017/2017/41/ (2017)
Youtube channel of Public Recordings and Outreach: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT00iirLlfnR7WmJMf8B4bJB3dqW_hUM4