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Roopika Risam edits the Higher Education section<\/a> of Public Books<\/em>. She is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative Literature in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster at Dartmouth College. She is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Northwestern University Press, 2018) and co-editor of\u00a0The Digital Black Atlantic<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of Minnesota Press, 2021). Risam also co-edits the journal\u00a0Reviews in Digital Humanities<\/i><\/a>, which offers peer review of digital scholarly outputs. Risam is the Principal Investigator of the\u00a0Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium<\/a>, an initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build capacity for teaching at the intersections of digital humanities and ethnic studies. Her current book project, \u201cInsurgent Academics: A Radical Account of Public Humanities,\u201d traces a new history of public humanities through the emergence of ethnic studies.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32554,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32553","pbauthor","type-pbauthor","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRoopika Risam - Public Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Roopika Risam edits the Higher Education section of Public Books. 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