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Copyright

Hart Cohen; Ujjwal Jana;

Published On

2024-11-06

Page Range

pp. 5–16

Language

  • English

Print Length

12 pages

1. Introduction

This chapter introduces the main rationale for developing a collaboration between India and Australia in the Digital Humanities (DH). We argue that the time is right to reflect the expansion of the footprint of the Digital Humanities to the sub continent and to continue the collaborative ethos of DH in this ongoing exchange between India and Australia. We will provide an overview of the current state of the Digital Humanities in India and Australia and where the scholars from these research contexts fit in the global sphere of Digital Humanities studies.

Contributors

Hart Cohen

(author)
Professor in Media Arts in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University
Member of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University

Dr Hart Cohen is Professor in Media Arts in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and a member of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He is currently the university’s Discipline Leader for Communication and Media. Dr Cohen has published widely in the field of visual anthropology, communications, f ilm and media studies and directed three Australian Research Council Projects related to the Strehlow Collection. Three films have been made in relation to these projects: Mr. Strehlow’s Films (SBSi 2001), Cantata Journey (ABC TV 2006), and Ntaria Heroes (2016). Dr Cohen is co-author of the award-winning book, Screen Media Arts: An Introduction to Concepts and Practices (2009) and editor of the Global Media Journal (Australian Edition (2007–present) (https://www.hca.westernsydney.edu.au/ gmjau/). His most recent book is The Strehlow Archive: Explorations in Old and New Media (2018).

Ujjwal Jana

(author)
Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts at University of Delhi

Dr Ujjwal Jana is Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. Professor Jana’s areas of academic and research interest include Digital Humanities, Translation Studies, Disability Studies and Literary Studies with interdisciplinary orientation. Professor Jana was a Fulbright Scholar in Indiana University, Bloomington, USA in 2007–2008. He was a visiting faculty member in the Departments of English, Leipzig University, Germany and University of Johannesburg, South Africa in 2014 and 2017 respectively. He received Hungarian State scholarship awards in the academic year 2021–2022 and 2022–2023 funded by the Tempus Foundation of the Government of Hungary to carry out collaborative research projects. He was the Indian Principal Investigator of the SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) sponsored International collaborative Project (2019–2023) on “Digital Humanities in the Indian Rim” in collaboration with Western Sydney University, Australia, funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. Professor Jana’s Bengali translation of Amit Chaudhuri’s Sahitya-Akademi-Award-winning English novel, A New World (2000) by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters, was published in 2021. Presently he is the Indian Principal Investigator of another SPARC-sponsored International Project (2023–2025) on “Indian-European entanglements: exploring trans-cultural relationships through Digital Humanities”, to collaborate with Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities. Ghent University, Belgium funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. He is currently carrying out a research project funded by the Indian Council of Historical Research, India on the 19th-century poet saint of Odisha, Bhima Bhoi, during 2024–2026. Professor Jana has edited an anthology on Digital Culture in Humanities: Contemporary Trends published by a Delhi-based publishing house in January 2023.