1. Decolonizing DH
Theories and Practices of
Postcolonial Digital Humanities
#S679

2. Participants
Presider: 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Intellectual Genealogies of
#dhpoco
Digital lineage in the digital humanities:
#transformDH, Digitizing Chinese Englishmen, TransAtlantic 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,

6. 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

7. 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