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Maya Dodd | |
|---|---|
 Maya Dodd | |
| Occupations | Academic, researcher |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Archives of Democracy: Technologies of Witness in Literatures on Indian Democracy Since 1975 (2006) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Digital humanities, South Asian studies |
| Institutions | FLAME University |
| Website | Official website |
Maya Dodd is an Indian academic and researcher. She is an associate professor in Humanities & Languages at FLAME University, Pune, and director of the FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research. Her research and teaching interests include digital humanities, South Asian cultural studies, digital archives, digital cultures and public history.[1][2]
Dodd has edited and co-edited books on digital humanities in India, including Exploring Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogies, Practices, and Institutional Possibilities (2020) and Practices of Digital Humanities in India: Learning by Doing (2024).[3][4]
Early life and education
[edit]Dodd received a bachelor's degree in English Literature from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, in 1998 and a master's degree in English from the University of Florida in 2000. She received a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 2006.[1]
Her doctoral dissertation was titled Archives of Democracy: Technologies of Witness in Literatures on Indian Democracy Since 1975.[1]
Following her doctorate, Dodd held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University and the Centre for Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University.[1][2]
Academic career
[edit]Dodd joined FLAME University in 2007. She has served as Assistant Dean for Teaching, Learning and Engagement and as chair of the Department of Humanities and Languages. She teaches Literary and Cultural Studies and has taught courses including Cybercultures, Introduction to Digital Humanities, South Asian Cultural Studies, Indian Law and Cultural Studies, and Indian Intellectual History.[1][2]
She is director of the FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research, where she works on a digital resource concerning legislative history in India.[2]
Dodd has also held visiting and research fellowships outside India. In 2024, she was a Digital Scholarship Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Her fellowship project was titled Digital Humanities as Public History in India.[5][6]
Research and digital humanities
[edit]Dodd's research examines digital methods in the study of South Asian culture, history and archives. Her work has addressed digital cultures, public history, archival practices, citizenship and the use of digital tools in humanities research.[1][2]
She has taught Digital Humanities at undergraduate level at FLAME University and has supervised research involving digital archives and cultural documentation.[1][2]
Dodd is a series editor of the Routledge book series Digital Humanities in Asia. The series focuses on digital humanities research and practices in Asian contexts, including digitisation, digital preservation, data, cultural heritage and digital scholarship.[7]
Her edited volume Exploring Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogies, Practices, and Institutional Possibilities, co-edited with Nidhi Kalra, was published by Routledge in 2020. The book examines digital humanities in India, including digital pedagogy, archives, cultural heritage and digital research practices.[3]
Dodd and Nirmala Menon edited Practices of Digital Humanities in India: Learning by Doing, published by Routledge in 2024. The volume brings together studies of digital humanities projects, pedagogy, tools, archives and community-based projects in India.[4]
The book has been reviewed in the scholarly journal Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, which discussed the volume in the context of the development of digital humanities in India.[8]
Dodd has also contributed chapters to edited scholarly volumes, including Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India and Digital Humanities and Laboratories: Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture.[9][10]
Archives and public history
[edit]Dodd has been involved in initiatives concerned with community archives, digital preservation and public history in India.
Milli Archives Foundation
[edit]Dodd was one of the founding members of Milli, a collective focused on archives and public access to archival resources in India. A 2021 article in Connect with IISc identified her as one of Milli's founding members and discussed her work in digital humanities and community archives, as well as efforts to improve public awareness of and access to archival collections.[11]
Dodd is the director of the Milli Archives Foundation, which works on archival preservation, documentation and access.[12]
Pune Architectural History Archive
[edit]Dodd is a founding trustee of the Pune Architectural History Archive (PAHA), a digital archive documenting Pune's twentieth-century architectural heritage. The archive digitises materials relating to the city's architectural history and makes them publicly accessible for research and other uses.[13]
PAHA was launched in 2025. The Indian Express reported that a team including Sarah Melsens, Maya Dodd and Pushkar Sohoni developed the archive as a free online resource documenting Pune's twentieth-century architectural heritage. At the time of that report, the archive contained records relating to 701 buildings, 17 interviews and 7,614 digital objects.[14]
Ownership of Public History in India
[edit]Dodd was a co-recipient of a 2020 British Academy grant for the Ownership of Public History in India (TOPHI) project. The project examined public history and community knowledge, including ways of bringing the perspectives of marginalised communities into educational contexts. In 2022, Passionate in Marketing reported on a TOPHI workshop on Adivasi foodways led by Dodd.[15][16]
Professional activities
[edit]Dodd has served on the governing committee of DHARTI, an organisation concerned with digital humanities scholarship in India, and has been involved in academic and public programmes relating to digital humanities, archives and civic education.[5][11]
She has served on the global advisory board of the University of Rochester's Humanities in the World programme and on the editorial boards of the journals Public Humanities and IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities.[5]
In 2022, Dodd was elected Joint Secretary of the Oral History Association of India.[5]
Selected publications
[edit]Edited volumes
[edit]- Dodd, Maya; Kalra, Nidhi, eds. (2020). Exploring Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogies, Practices, and Institutional Possibilities. Routledge. ISBN 9780367347932.[17]
- Dodd, Maya; Menon, Nirmala, eds. (2024). Practices of Digital Humanities in India: Learning by Doing. Routledge. ISBN 9781032350882.[18]
Book chapters
[edit]- Dodd, Maya (2022). "Digital Cultures in India: Digitality and its Discontents". In Zaidi, Nishat (ed.). Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India. Routledge. ISBN 9781032056739.[19]
- Roy, Dibyadyuti; Dodd, Maya (2023). "Digital Humanities Laboratories and its Discontents: Experiments and Perspectives from India". In Pawlicka-Deger, Urszula; Thomson, Christopher (eds.). Digital Humanities and Laboratories: Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture. Routledge.[20]
- Park, Hyesu; Dodd, Maya (2020). "Introduction". In Park, Hyesu (ed.). Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978804135.[21]
Selected articles and reviews
[edit]- Dodd, Maya. "The Paradox of Open: How to Build a Better Internet." Scroll.in, 12 October 2021.[22]
- Dodd, Maya. "As Indians Turn to Social Media for Covid-19 Help, Online Resources for Smaller Cities Begin to Grow." Scroll.in, 19 May 2021.[23]
- Dodd, Maya. "Querying Info-Solutionism." Biblio: A Review of Books, 2022.[24]
- Dodd, Maya. "The Right to Internet is a Human Right: Rethinking Digital Access." TVW News India, 12 January 2023.[25]
- Dodd, Maya. Review of Asha Sarangi's Language and Politics in India. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 2011. doi:10.1177/006996671204700110.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Maya Dodd". Stanford University, Modern Thought & Literature. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Maya Dodd". FLAME University. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- 1 2 Maya Dodd; Nidhi Kalra, eds. (2020). Exploring Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogies, Practices, and Institutional Possibilities. Routledge. ISBN 9780367347932.
- 1 2 Maya Dodd; Nirmala Menon, eds. (2024). Practices of Digital Humanities in India: Learning by Doing. Routledge. ISBN 9781032350882.
- 1 2 3 4 "Dr Maya Dodd". Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ IASH Annual Report 2023–24 (PDF) (Report). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ "Digital Humanities in Asia". Routledge. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ Bala, Apsara; Menon, Nirmala (2024). "Exploring Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogies Practices and Institutional Possibilities. Maya Dodd and Nidhi Kalra (eds)". Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 39 (1): 446–447. doi:10.1093/llc/fqad070.
- ↑ Dodd, Maya (2022). "Digital Cultures in India: Digitality and its Discontents". Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India. Routledge. ISBN 9781032056739.
- ↑ Roy, Dibyadyuti; Dodd, Maya (2023). "Digital Humanities Laboratories and its Discontents: Experiments and Perspectives from India". Digital Humanities and Laboratories: Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture. Routledge.
- 1 2 Why Are Indian Archives Coming Together?, Connect with IISc, September 2021.
- ↑ The Future of the Past: Policy and Practice in Archival Preservation, Centre for Social and Economic Progress.
- ↑ About PAHA, Pune Architectural History Archive.
- ↑ Hidden Stories: Amid Pune's construction frenzy, an archive that remembers those who built it, The Indian Express, 22 November 2025.
- ↑ "FLAME University hosts workshop on 'The Ownership of Public History in India Project' to explore Adivasi foodways". Passionate in Marketing. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ "Ownership of Public History in India". The British Academy. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ Dodd, Maya; Kalra, Nidhi, eds. (2020). Exploring Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogies, Practices, and Institutional Possibilities. Routledge. ISBN 9780367347932. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ Dodd, Maya; Menon, Nirmala, eds. (2024). Practices of Digital Humanities in India: Learning by Doing. Routledge. ISBN 9781032350882. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ Dodd, Maya (2022). "Digital Cultures in India: Digitality and its Discontents". In Zaidi, Nishat (ed.). Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India. Routledge. ISBN 9781032056739.
- ↑ Roy, Dibyadyuti; Dodd, Maya (2023). "Digital Humanities Laboratories and its Discontents: Experiments and Perspectives from India". In Pawlicka-Deger, Urszula; Thomson, Christopher (eds.). Digital Humanities and Laboratories: Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture. Routledge.
- ↑ Park, Hyesu; Dodd, Maya (2020). "Introduction". In Park, Hyesu (ed.). Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978804135.
- ↑ Dodd, Maya (12 October 2021). "The paradox of open: How to build a better internet". Scroll.in. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ Dodd, Maya (19 May 2021). "As Indians turn to social media for Covid-19 help, online resources for smaller cities begin to grow". Scroll.in. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ Dodd, Maya (2022). "Querying Info-Solutionism". Biblio: A Review of Books. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ Dodd, Maya (12 January 2023). "Right to Internet is a Human Right: Rethinking Digital Access". TVW News India. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
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