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Professor & Director
Interdisciplinary Studies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
Jaishree Odin’s areas of teaching and
research include cultural studies of science
and technology, literary and political ecology, critical theory, new-media literature,
postcolonial literature, and Kashmiri literature. She has also
published on new technologies and their impact on higher
education.
Odin
recently published a book on new-media literature Hypertext and the
Female Imaginary
(University
of
Minnesota Press, 2010). A
book chapter on new-media literature appeared in Women, Art
and Technology (MIT Press, 2004). Several other essays on
new-media literature, literary ecology, and postcolonial
literature were published in Genre, Electronic Book
Review, Iowa Review Web, Modern Fiction Studies, Arts
Wire Current, Postcolonial Theory and Criticism Web, Studies
in Humanities and Social Sciences, Journal of Commonwealth and
Postcolonial Studies, and Comparative Literature Studies.
She has also contributed entries to the Encyclopedia
of Literature and Science (Greenwood Press, 2002).
In
addition, Odin has worked extensively on medieval Kashmiri
literature. Her
two published books on the Kashmiri Shaiva poet Lalla are: Mystical
Verses of Lalla. Motilal
Banarasidass Pub., 2007
and To the Other Shore:
Lalla’s Life and Poetry.
Vitasta Publishers: 1999.
A book chapter on this topic was published in The Valley of Kashmir: The Making and
Unmaking of a Composite Culture (Manohar, 2008). Other
essays have appeared in the Aligarh
Journal of Islamic
Philosophy, Manushi, and La
Revue de l'Inde. Odin has also contributed to
the Holy
People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia.
Ed. Phyllis G. Jessica. ABC-Clio, 2004.
Currently she is working on a book project on the medieval
Rishi Sufi tradition of Kashmir.
Odin
has also worked on the intersections of new technologies and
their impact on higher education. She has co-edited
a volume of essays on Globalization
and Higher Education, with Peter Manicas (University
of
Hawai’i
Press, 2004).
She has written many essays on new technologies and pedagogy which
have appeared in academic journals and conference proceedings--Educational
Perspectives, Active
Learning, Proceedings of Educational Multimedia,
Hypermedia and Telecommunications (Ed-Media 2002), and Proceedings
of WebNet 99.
Education
Ph.D.
in comparative literature from the State University of New York
at Stony Brook.
M.Sc.
in chemistry from
India
.
Awards
and Grants
- 2008-09 Fulbright
Senior Research Fellowship. Research on Kashmiri
literature in India.
- 2006
UH Research Relations Award. Research on Kashmiri literature
in
India
.
- 2004
Alfred Sloan Foundation Award to develop IS 331: Science
and Culture course.
- 2002
University
of
Hawaii
Assessment Fund . Principal
Investigator of the Liberal Studies Program Assessment
project.
- 1999
Alfred Sloan Foundation Grant: Co-principal
investigator and project director of UH Manoa’s Sloan
Foundation grant proposal
University
of
Hawaii’s Asynchronous
Learning Network.
- 1996
Alfred Sloan Foundation Grant: Principal investigator to
develop an online course..
- 1995
NEH Award: Summer Institute for College Teachers
"Literature in Transition: The Impact of Information
Technologies on Literature" directed by Professor
Katherine Hayles.
- 1991
University
of
Hawaii Research Relations Award
to do research in
India
in the summer of 1992 on the fourteenth century Kashmiri
poet Lalla.
Odin
has served as a
peer reviewer for Fulbright Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation,
McArthur Foundation, Alfred Sloan Foundation, and National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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