Dr. Dhanashree Thorat is an Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University.
Her research is situated at the intersection of Asian American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Digital Humanities. Broadly, she examines how colonial and racial ideologies shape the technological imagination, specifically in digital infrastructures, platforms, and policies. She has published articles in South Asian Review, Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Digital Humanities Quarterly.
Dhanashree is a founding Executive Council member of the Center for Digital Humanities, Pune in India. She served as the lead organizer for a biennial winter school on Digital Humanities, and advised the center on digital archival projects and DH curriculum development. She was a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities at the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas from 2017-2019. She completed her PhD at the University of Florida (2017) with a certificate in Digital Humanities.
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