Dr. Roopika Risam to Host Workshop for Rhetoric & Writing Students on Digital Humanities Research

Dr Roopika Risam, an Assistant Professor from Salem State University, will host a workshop for Rhetoric & Writing Students on Thursday, March 30 from 1:30-3:00 pm in East Hall 206. Her workshop is titled Digital Research Methods and Growing Methods from Questions. Dr. Risam’s Salem State Univeristy bio reads as follows:

She serves as Assistant Professor of English, Coordinator of the Secondary Education English Undergraduate Program, Coordinator of the Digital Studies Graduate Certificate Program, and Chair of the Program Area for Content Educators. She is finishing a monograph on the intersections of postcolonial studies and digital humanities, which is under contract with Northwestern University Press. Her other major project examines postcolonial and global themes in W.E.B. Du Bois's writing. Additionally, she is the co-founder of Postcolonial Digital Humanities, a movement and emerging academic subfield within digital humanities that foregrounds global explorations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability within cultures of technology. She is a frequent speaker on issues of race, difference, and the digital; globalization and technology; pedagogy and technology; and social media and public scholarship.

Dr. Risam will also be a keynote speaker at the Fembot Collective Conference at BGSU on March 30-31, 2017.

Anyone interested in learning more about Dr. Risam’s work can visit her website.