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About Roopika Risam

Roopika Risam joined the Salem State University faculty in 2013. She serves as Assistant Professor of English, Faculty Fellow for Digital Library Initiatives, Coordinator of the Digital Studies Graduate Certificate Program, and Coordinator of the Secondary English Education BA/M.Ed. Program. Risam is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Worlds in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (Northwestern UP) and co-editor of The Digital Black Atlantic for the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (University of Minnesota Press). She is the director of the NEH and IMLS-funded Regional Comprehensive Digital Humanities Network and co-founder of Reanimate, an intersectional feminist publishing collective. Her scholarship has appeared in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Debates in the Digital Humanities, Popular Communications, South Asian Review, and College and Undergraduate Libraries, among others. She is a frequent speaker on her research interests in race, difference, and the digital; globalization and technology; migration and media; pedagogy and technology; and social media and public scholarship. Risam is also a recent recipient of the Massachusetts Library Association's Civil Liberties Champion Award for her work promoting equity and justice in the digital cultural record. More information and her CV is available at roopikarisam.com.

Positions

Present Faculty Member, Salem State University
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Curriculum Vitae




Grants

2017 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant
National Endowment for the Humanities
2016 Common Good Reads Grant
Mass Humanities
2016 DiFelice Grant for Digital Humanities in the Secondary Humanities Classroom
Salem State University
2016 Graduate Research Assistantship for Digital Salem
Salem State University
2015 Council of Teaching and Learning Summer Grant
Salem State University
2015 Graduate Research Assistantship for “A Cultural Atlas of Global Blackness."
Salem State University
2015 Mini Grant for “Postcolonial Digital Humanities"
Salem State University
2015 Strategic Innovation Grant for “Digital Humanities Intern Program”
Salem State University
2014 Seed Grant for “Digital Humanities and the Common Core: Attitudes and Awareness"
Salem State University
2013 Micro-Grant for “Digitizing Chinese Englishmen”
Association for Computers and the Humanities
2012 Dean’s Teaching Fellowship
Emory University
2012 Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Fellowship
Emory University
2007 - 2012 Arts and Sciences Fellowship
Emory University
2011 Race and Difference Initiative Seed Grant
Emory University
2010 Gustafson Research Grant for “The Realities of Race"
Emory University
2005 - 2007 Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship Fellowship
Georgetown University
2005 - 2007 Ford Foundation Fellow
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School
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Professional Service and Affiliations

Member, American Comparative Literature Association
Member, Association for Computers and the Humanities
Member, Critical Ethnic Studies Association
Member, Fembot Collective
Member, Modern Language Association
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Education

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2013 Ph.D., Emory University
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2007 M.A., Georgetown University ‐ English with Distinction
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2003 B.A., University of Pennsylvania ‐ Creative Writing and South Asian Studies
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Books (1)

Presentations (6)

Research Works (1)

Articles (14)

Book Chapters (2)

Book Reviews (1)