Jaishree Odin
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Jaishree Odin is a literary scholar who is the director and a professor of the Program of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her research relates to cultural studies of science and technology, literary and political ecology, ecology and ethics, system's ecology, and eco-literacy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her work ranges from German philosophy<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and the feminist angle to mysticism.Template:Citation needed She has also considered the current relevance of Shaivite theories of higher consciousness.Template:Citation needed
Jaishree is sister of computer scientists Avinash Kak and Subhash Kak.
Education and careerEdit
Odin obtained a Master of Science degree in chemistry from India, following which she went on to earn a doctorate in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.Template:Citation needed
Odin teaches in the Liberal Studies program at the University of Hawaii. Besides, she is the director of a Sloan foundation-funded online distance learning project at the university, which is intended to increase access to higher education in the state of Hawaii.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
WorksEdit
TranslationsEdit
She is one of the translators of Lalleshvari, the famed 14th century Kashmiri mystic and poet.<ref>To the other shore: Lalla's life and poetry. Hillsboro Beach: Vitasta (1999)</ref><ref>J. Odin Kak, Mystical Verses of Lalla. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2009)</ref> She has also translated Kashmir's early Sufi poetry, especially that of Nunda Reshi.<ref>J. Odin, Lalla to Nuruddin: Rishi-Sufi Poetry of Kashmir. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2013)</ref> Odin's essays have been published in Commonwealth Studies and in the collection Postcolonialism and American Ethnicity.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Electronic literatureEdit
Odin wrote To the Other Shore: Lalla's Life and Poetry (Vitasta Pub, 1999).
Odin's work includes Through the Looking Glass: Technology, Nomadology and Postmodern Narrative which the Electronic Literature State of the Arts Symposium describes as a critical exploration of shattered visual metaphors in contemporary literature which includes electronic literary forms.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Odin has written extensively on technology-mediated narrative forms as well as the role of technology in re-visioning higher education.<ref>Manicas and Odin, Globalization and Higher Education. Mānoa: University of Hawaiʻi (2004)</ref> Some of her published articles on electronic literature have dealt with the potential of the electronic media in depicting contemporary experience in multiple ways.<ref>Ponzanesi, S. and Koen, L. On digital crossings in Europe. Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, Volume 5, Number 1, March 1, 2014, pages 3–22</ref> Ponzanesi and Koen claim: "As Jaishree Odin has so aptly written, both the hypertext and the postcolonial are discourses are characterized by multivocality, multilinearity, open-endedness, active encounter and traversal. Both disrupt chronological sequences and spatial ordering (1997), allowing for a contestation of master narratives and the creation of subaltern positioning."
Odin's work includes critical exploration of shattered visual metaphors in contemporary literature<ref>J. Odin, Hypertext and the Female Imaginary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2010)</ref>
AwardsEdit
For her work, she has been awarded various awards and grants, including a Fulbright Research Fellowship, the Alfred Sloan Foundation award and University of Hawaiʻi Relations Research Award.
BibliographyEdit
- Computers and Cultural Transformation. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (1997).
- "The Edge of Difference: Negotiations Between the Hypertextual and the Postcolonial Template:Webarchive". MFS Modern Fiction Studies 3 (43): 1997. Pages 598–630
- Globalization and Higher Education. Mānoa: University of Hawaiʻi (2004). Template:ISBN
- Hypertext and the Female Imaginary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2010). Template:ISBN
- To the other shore: Lalla's life and poetry. Hillsboro Beach: Vitasta (1999). Template:ISBN
- Mystical Verses of Lalla. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2009). Template:ISBN
- Lalla to Nuruddin: Rishi-Sufi Poetry of Kashmir. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2013). Template:ISBN