Roopika Risam

Roopika Risam is Assistant Professor of English and Education at Salem State University. Her research focuses on African diaspora studies and digital humanities. Her book, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy will be published by Northwestern University Press in 2018. She is currently co-editing Debates in the Digital Black Atlantic for the Debates in the Digital Humanities series from University of Minnesota Press. Risam's work has appeared in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Popular Communication, and Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, among others.

At the Shifting (the) Boundaries Symposium, Roopika Risam will present: Knowing Your (Intersectional) History: A Jigsaw Approach to Undergraduate Digital Humanities Research.