PhD in English · 2019–2025 · Awarded
Aligarh Muslim University
Thesis: Politics of Space and Identity in Select Texts: Revisiting the Absurd Theatre in the 21st Century. Supervisor: Prof. M. Rizwan Khan.
Public academic CV · September 2026
S Anas Ahmad
Postcolonial Digital Humanities · Aligarh, India
saahmad.en@amu.ac.in
Research profile
S Anas Ahmad researches the postcolonial politics of digital infrastructures, AI-mediated reading, and scholarly knowledge from Indian and Global South perspectives. PhD in English, Aligarh Muslim University (2025). Research areas include postcolonial studies, Digital Humanities, electronic literature, infrastructure studies, game studies, and hermeneutic theory.
Education & professional qualifications
MA in English Literature · 2016–2018 · Awarded
Aligarh Muslim University
CGPA 7.81; class rank 2 of 50.
BA (Hons.) in Economics · 2013–2016 · Awarded
Aligarh Muslim University
Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching of English (PGDTE) · 2025–present · Ongoing
English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDHE) · 2024–present · Ongoing
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Post Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of English (PGCTE) · 2018–2019 · Awarded
English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Publications & creative work
S Anas Ahmad; M. Rizwan Khan; Filza Zaki Khan. 2026. Algorithmic Hermeneutics and the Fourth Epoch of Reading: How AI Reading Environments Restructure Interpretation.
Digital Humanities Quarterly. Under review. DOI: 10.17613/3dt0k-cd392
S Anas Ahmad. 2026. Digital Cartographies of Exclusion: Mapping Inequality in Global Virtual Flight Simulation.
Games and Culture. Under review. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/vsk2c_v2
Maria Shahid; S Anas Ahmad; Bushra Ahmad; M. Rizwan Khan. 2026. Digital Humanities and Electronic Literature in India: opportunities, challenges, and future directions.
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. Published. DOI: 10.1080/13614568.2026.2643163
S Anas Ahmad; M. Rizwan Khan. 2026. Minimal Computing and the Bidirectional Pedagogical Bridge: Inverse Disciplinary Profiles in Indian Digital Humanities Teaching.
Routledge edited collection. Under review.
S Anas Ahmad. 2026. Recognized but Not Machine-Readable: An Evidence-Tiered Audit of Sahitya Akademi Awardees in Wikidata.
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Under review. DOI: 10.17613/qrc07-nc197
S Anas Ahmad. 2026. AI-Assisted Writing, Reliance, and Learner Autonomy: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study of Indian ESL University Students.
Author preprint. Preprint. DOI: 10.17613/qc1w5-69x40
S Anas Ahmad. 2026. Beyond Digital Humanities: Cultural Authority and the Computational Future of the Humanities in India.
Global Conditions for Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities · proposed UCL edited volume. Submitted.
S Anas Ahmad; T. Shanmugapriya. 2026. Quantum Colonialism and the Constitution of Quantum Humanities: A Postcolonial Critique.
Author preprint. Preprint. DOI: 10.17613/9k24s-qas87
S Anas Ahmad; Mohammad Anas; Abdullah Nouman; Filza Zaki Khan. 2026. Governing Epistemic Sustainability: Epistemic Enclosure, Double Concealment, and Knowledge Sovereignty in India’s Viksit Bharat 2047.
Journal of Political Power. Under review. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/zgs6j_v1
S Anas Ahmad. 2026. Zara’s Odyssey: Echoes of Belonging.
Indian Electronic Literature Anthology, Volume 2 · KSHIP, IIT Indore. Published.
S Anas Ahmad; M. Rizwan Khan. 2024. Protest through Theatre: Analysing Humour and Fantasy as Resistance Tropes in Badal Sircar’s Scandal in Fairyland and Beyond the Land of Hattamala.
International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture. Published. DOI: 10.22161/ijllc.4.6.5
Filza Zaki Khan; S Anas Ahmad. 2024. Digital Technology in English Language Learning: Opportunities, Challenges, and Innovations in India’s Education Landscape.
International Journal of Teaching, Learning and Education. Published. DOI: 10.22161/ijtle.3.6.3
S Anas Ahmad. 2022. The Aborigines and The Adivasis: Sharing a Common Voice; Analyzing Judith Wright’s Bora Ring and Shanmugam Chettiar’s We are the Adivasis.
International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences. Published. DOI: 10.22161/ijels.74.15
Grants, fellowships & qualifications
Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) · 2020–2025
Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. Junior Research Fellow (2020); Senior Research Fellow (2022).
UGC National Eligibility Test, English
Qualified five times: December 2018, June 2019, December 2019, December 2023, June 2024.
Teaching experience
Guest Faculty in English · September 2026–present
Department of English, Women’s College, Aligarh Muslim University
Teaching English at Women’s College, Aligarh Muslim University.
Assistant Professor of English (Ad Hoc) · 23 July–23 August 2025
Aligarh Muslim University
Undergraduate teaching and academic responsibilities in English.
Assistant Professor of English (Contractual) · September 2024–July 2025
Aligarh Muslim University
Undergraduate instruction across B.A., B.Sc., B.Com., B.B.A., and B.Tech. programmes. Courses included Communicative English, English Language Teaching, Personality Development, and literary studies, alongside assessment, examination supervision, and academic mentoring.
Teaching Assistant · 2020–2022
Aligarh Muslim University
Assisted Prof. M. Rizwan Khan with postgraduate teaching and course administration in the Department of English.
Editorial & reviewing activity
Corresponding and Lead Guest Editor · 2026–2027
Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress
Digital Marginalisation, AI Bias, and Cultural Representation in South Asia, with M. Rizwan Khan and Samya Brata Roy.
Peer Reviewer · 2024
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
Peer review for Taylor & Francis.
Peer Reviewer · 2025
Digital Humanities Intersections
Peer review for KSHIP, IIT Indore.
Academic service
Judge · 2025–2026
New Media Writing Prize, Bournemouth University
Judging creative work in new media writing.
Core Committee Member, GIAN Courses · 2022–2025
Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University
Organisation and facilitation of four Ministry of Education-sponsored courses on electronic literature and AI, audiovisual translation, African and Indian writing, and culturally empowering teacher training.
Organising Team Member · March 2020
UGC SAP DRS-II National Seminar, Aligarh Muslim University
Violence of Translation: Assessing the Impacts.
Organising Team Member · February 2018
IACLALS Conference, Aligarh Muslim University
Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies conference.
Leadership & creative practice
Founder, SHABD India · October 2024–present
Scholarly Humanities Alliance for Bhasha and Digitalisation in India. A field-building initiative for Digital Humanities and vernacular language scholarship, with attention to underrepresented linguistic traditions and minoritarian cultural production.
Core team member, E-Lit India · July 2024–present
Contributing to the electronic literature community in India, supporting Indian-language digital creative practices and the recognition of electronic literature as a scholarly field.
Author · interactive fiction, Zara’s Odyssey: Echoes of Belonging · 2026
A work of electronic literature about cultural identity and belonging. Reader choices shape a British-Indian woman’s journey to India, bringing creative practice into conversation with postcolonial research.
Author · working monograph, Data for Data · In development
A book project on access, extraction, and the postcolonial digital. It develops Postcolonial Access Governance to explain how digital participation can require people to exchange identity, language, money, data, and technical labour for access that remains conditional and revocable.
Conference presentations & workshops
3–4 June 2025
Conference presentation
Re-Imagining Archival Accessibility: Digital Humanities Collaboration Between India and the UK
Collaboration Beyond Boundaries · UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Annual Conference
Glasgow, United Kingdom
31 January–1 February 2025
Conference presentation
Beyond Postcolonial Digital Humanities: Quantum Humanities as a Framework for Inclusive Decolonial DH in India
Digital Humanities and AI: Intersections, Innovations, and Implications
IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India
8–10 February 2024
Conference presentation
Transformative Engagement: Redefining Storytelling and Audience Participation with Immersive VR in Theatre
XXI International Conference of the Indian Society for Theatre Research
MBM University, Jodhpur, India
19–21 December 2023
Conference presentation
AI and Mythopoeia in Digital Humanities: Rediscovering Tolkien’s World with DALL·E 3
Mapping the Marvellous: Mythopoeia, Multiverse & Fantasy Across Literature(s), Films and Media
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
4–5 November 2023
Conference presentation
Children’s Literature in the Age of Digital Storytelling and Generative AI
Children’s Literature: Classics to Contemporary
Aligarh Muslim University, India
12–15 July 2023
Conference presentation
Electronic Literature and Digital Humanities in Indian Higher Education: Perceptions, Prospects, and Challenges
Electronic Literature Organization International Conference and Media Arts Show
Coimbra, Portugal
28–29 April 2023
Conference presentation
Yesteryear Mythologies and their Influence on Popular Culture: An Analysis of Fantasy Works and their Effect on Society
Literature & Society
IIMT University, Meerut, India
25–26 February 2023
Conference presentation
The Digital Eliot Project: Rehashing T.S. Eliot in India Using Digital Humanities and AI
100 Years of The Wasteland, Ulysses and Jacob’s Room
Aligarh Muslim University, India
25–26 February 2023
Conference presentation
Re-visiting T.S. Eliot in 21st Century: A Study of Style and Language
100 Years of The Waste Land, Ulysses and Jacob’s Room
Aligarh Muslim University, India
16–18 February 2023
Conference presentation
Protest through Theatre: Analysing Humour and Fantasy as Resistance Tropes in Badal Sircar’s Scandal in Fairyland and Beyond the Land of Hattamala
XVIII International Conference of the Indian Society for Theatre Research
Alwar, India
15 March 2022
Workshop
Translating Subhadra Kumari Chauhan’s Short Story Heengwala from Hindi to English
UGC SAP DRS-II Workshop cum Seminar on Translation Studies
Aligarh Muslim University, India
19 March 2018
Conference presentation
The Adivasis and Aborigines: Sharing a Common Plight: An Analysis of Poems of Judith Wright and Shanmugam Chettiar
Graduate Seminar on Representation and the Voice of the Orient in Postcolonial Studies
Aligarh Muslim University, India
Professional development
DH101: Introduction to Digital Humanities · December 2020
HarvardX (edX)
History of English Language and Literature · September–December 2020
NPTEL / IIT Madras · 12-week Faculty Development Programme
Introduction to Literary Theory · September–November 2020
NPTEL / IIT Kanpur · 8-week Faculty Development Programme
Gender and Literature · September–November 2020
NPTEL / IIT Madras · 8-week Faculty Development Programme
Short-Term Course on Climate Change · March 2020
HRDC, Aligarh Muslim University
Short-Term Course on Gender Studies · December 2019
HRDC, Aligarh Muslim University
Digital Literatures and Literatures in the Digital · May 2022
GIAN, Aligarh Muslim University
Languages
English and Hindi; working knowledge of Urdu.