Decolonizing DHTheories and Practices of

Postcolonial Digital Humanities#S679

ParticipantsPresider: Roopika Risam, Assistant Professor of English, Salem State University, @roopikarisam

Respondent: Anna Everett, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara

Adeline Koh, Director of DH @ Stockton and Assistant Professor of Literature, Richard Stockton College, @adelinekoh

Alex Gil, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Division of Columbia University Libraries, @elotroalex

Amit Ray, Associate Professor of English at Rochester Institute of Technology, @amitorit

Porter Olsen, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland – College Park, @pwolsen

What is #dhpoco?

A movement dedicated to global explorations of race,

class, gender, sexuality, and disability within cultures

of technology

Merges postcolonial studies and digital humanities

and theory and praxis

Found on Twitter (#dhpoco), Facebook (Postcolonial

Digital Humanities), and the web (http://dhpoco.org)

Created by Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam

Intellectual Genealogies of

#dhpoco

Digital lineage in postcolonial studies: Deepika

Bahri’s Postcolonial Studies at Emory, George

Landow’s The Postcolonial Literature and Culture

Web, Adeline Koh’s The Stockton Postcolonial

Studies Project, Kavita Daiya’s 1947Partition.org

Theoretical lineage in postcolonial studies: Aijaz

Ahmad, Arif Dirlik, Ella Shohat, Benita Parry, Sandra

Harding and postcolonial science and technology

studies

Intellectual Genealogies of

#dhpoco

Digital lineage in the digital humanities:

#transformDH, Digitizing Chinese Englishmen, Trans-

Atlantic Slave Trade Database, Jessica M. Johnson’s

Black Diaspora Hypertext, Crunk Feminist Collective

Theoretical lineage in the digital humanities and new

media: Tara McPherson, Alan Liu, Lisa Nakamura,

Peter Chow-White, Alondra Nelson,

Goals of #dhpoco

Probe intersection of postcolonial studies and digital

humanities

Mediate in critiques of lack of cultural criticism in the

digital humanities

Intervene in critique of postcolonial studies as passé

or too abstract, reviving activist spirit of field

Goals of #dhpoco

Build community of scholars around the world whose

work intervenes in both postcolonial studies and

digital humanities

Decolonize the digital

Foreground anti-colonial thought in studies of

technology

Disrupt narratives of globalization and technological

progress