S Anas AhmadPostcolonial Digital Humanities · Aligarh, India
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Projects & field-building

Making room for other voices.

Research also means building the communities, practices, and spaces through which knowledge circulates.

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.

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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.

Corresponding and lead guest editor

Digital Marginalisation, AI Bias, and Cultural Representation in South Asia

2026–2027

A special issue of the Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress, co-edited with M. Rizwan Khan and Samya Brata Roy. The issue examines how digital systems shape exclusion, representation, and knowledge in South Asia.

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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.

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Field-building as scholarly work

These activities extend my research on representation, linguistic diversity, and the infrastructure of scholarly fields. They connect critical inquiry with editorial responsibility, community formation, and born-digital creative practice.

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