Educational Background
Ph. D. Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, New York     
M.Sc. Chemistry, India.

Areas of Research and Teaching
Critical Theory
Science and Technology Studies
Electronic Literature
Postcolonial Literature, Kashmiri Literature, Kashmiri Shaiva and Sufi thought
Online Learning using Communication Technologies

Languages

• English, German, Hindi, Kashmiri/Urdu, Sanskrit (working knowledge)

Affiliate Faculty

• Center of South Asian Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies

Publication

• Mystical Verses of Lalla. Motilal Banarsidass: 2007.
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• To the Other Shore: Lalla's Life and Poetry. Vitasta Pub, 1999.

           Reviews of To the Other Shore: Lalla’s Life and Poetry

Ein buch , das in jeder Hinsicht Grenzen uberschreitet und sowohl poetisch wie intellectuell anregend ist (A book which in every respect crosses boundaries and is both poetic and intellectually exciting)…. Besprechungen. Inklings-Jahrbuch 18 (2000)

“A fine and precise treatise on the 14th century mystic woman poet of Kashmir”….. Hindu, January 15, 2000.

 “[Odin’s] analysis of Lalla’s life and teachings is scholarly, innovative and fresh”… The Book Review, Vol XXIV, Number 12, December 2000 

“[Odin] summarizes quite masterfully the complex ideas of Kashmir Shaivism and applies them inspiringly to Lalla’s verses… the book contains Lalla’s verses in the original with a beautiful translation.”  Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 61m N I, February2002.

• Globalization and Higher Education. Eds. Jaishree Odin & Peter Manicas. Univ of Hawaii Press, 2004.

Under Review

• On Collage, Hypertext, and the Postmodern: A Study of Literature, Technology and Culture. 

Book Chapters

• “Lalla’s relation to the Shaivite and Sufi Traditions in Kashmir ” in The Valley of Kashmir: The Making and Unmaking of a Composite Culture. Ed. Aparna Rao. Manohar Pub. Forthcoming.
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• "Embodiment and Narrative Performance" in Women Art and Technology. Edited by Judy Malloy. MIT Press, 2003.
  
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• “New Technologies and the Reconstitution of the Universities” in Globalization and Higher  Education. Eds. Jaishree Odin & Peter Manicas. Univ of Hawaii Press, 2004.

Current Book Project:

• Comparative study of the Kashmiri Shaiva and Sufi Thought in India

Published Translation

• “Lalla” in Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and Experience. Ed. Peter Heehs. NYU Press, 2002.

• “Lalla” in Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopaedia. Ed. Phyllis G. Jessica. ABC-Clio, 2004.
  
  
• “Literature and Science in the Twenty First Century” in the Encyclopedia of Literature and Science. Ed. Pamela Gossin. Greenwood Press, 2002. Other entries “Computers” and “Quantum Metaphysics.”

Web Site

• Technology and Culture 1997

Journal Guest Editor

• Co-Editor of Educational Perspectives 2002 with Hunter McEwan a special 2002 issue on online education of the UH Manoa Department of Education’s journal.

Articles:

• “The Database, the Interface, and the Hypertext: A Reading of Strickland's V” Electropoetics.  Electronic Book Review, November 2007.


• “ Lalla, poète mystique du Cachemire.” La Revue de l'Inde No. 7. 2007.


• "Nature, Culture, and Ecological Awareness: Narratives from the “Other” World.” Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. XII, No. 1, Sum 2005


• "Memory and Metamorphosis in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Under review.
  


• ""A Lotus Blooms…: Relevance of Lalla’s Verses” in Manushi. September 2003
  


• “Implementing the UH Asynchronous Learning Network: Practices, Challenges and Issues” in Special Issue on Online Learning. Educational Perspectives, Summer 2002.
  


• ""Teaching and Learning Activities in the Online Classroom.” Proceedings of Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (Ed-Media 2002), Denver, Colorado 2002, edited by Philip Barket and Samuel Rebelsky, vol 3, pp 1484-1489.
  


• ""Electronic Literature by Ethnic Writers” Arts Wire Current, 25 June 2002, Volume 11, No. 25. Republished in Fine Arts Forum.
  


• ""Text and image in Hypermedia Literature” in Iowa Review Web, September 2002.
  


• ""Effective Online Teaching/Learning: A Case Study” Proceedings of WebNet 99 World Conference. WebNet (2) 1999: 1381-1382.
  


• "Distance Learning using ALNs: Broader Implementation and Specific Pedagogical Issues.” 1998. Co-authored with Joseph Holland. Active Learning.  Issue 9 (December 1998).
  


• "The Performative and Processual: A Study of Hypertext/Postcolonial Aesthetic” Postcolonial Theory and Criticism, Brown University Website, 1998.
  


• ""The Edge of Difference: Negotiations between the Postcolonial and the Hypertextual," in the special issue Technology and Narrative of Modern Fiction Studies, edited by N. Katherine Hayles and Patrick O'Donnell. Fall 1997.
  


• ""Gender and Identity in Anita Desai's Novels." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Vol 1, No. 1, Fall 1993.
  


• ""Suggestiveness - Poe's Writings from the Perspective of Indian Rasa Theory" in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4, Winter 1986.
  

Reviews and Interviews

• “Does E-Moderating an Active Classroom Make? ” On The Horizon. Fall 2002.
  
• “Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities” On The Horizon. Summer 2002.
  
• "Into the space of previously undrawable diagrams": An Interview with Stephanie Strickland. September 1, 2002.
  
• “Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia: A Journey to Re-member History.” Electronic Book Review 12.  Fall 2001.

Awards and Grants

• 2006 University of Hawaii Research Relations Award ($5,000) to do research in India on the Indigenous Sufi Tradition of Kashmir.
• 2004 Sloan Award ($4,600) for Online Course Development .
• 2002 UHM Chancellor’s Assessment Award ($5,600). Principal Investigator, Liberal Studies Program Assessment Project.
• 1999 Alfred Sloan Foundation Grant ($405, 000): Co-principal investigator and project director of the University of Hawaii’s Asynchronous Learning Network. Project.
• 1996 Alfred Sloan Foundation Grant ($30, 000): Principal investigator for creating UH’s first online course.
• 1995 NEH Summer Institute ($4000) for College Teachers "Literature in Transition: The Impact of Information Technologies on Literature" directed by Professor Katherine Hayles, UCLA.
• University of Hawaii Research Relations Award ($4,946) in Fall 1991 to do research in India in the summer of 1992 on the fourteenth century Kashmiri poet Lalla.

Peer Reviewer

• McArthur Foundation Peer Reviewer:2002.
  
• Guggenheim Foundation Peer Reviewer: 2000 & 2001.
  
• 6^th International ALN Conference Track Chair: of the track on New Directions in Asynchronous Learning Network (Online Education).  The conference was held at the University of Maryland University College in November 2000.
  
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Peer Reviewerof the 1996 NEH Teaching with Technology Grants, 1997 Humanities Focus Grants, and 1998 Education Development and Demonstration Grants.
  
• Sloan Foundation Peer Reviewer—1996, 1997, 2000 Asynchronous Learning Networks.
  
• Pre-Publication Peer Reviewer forMosaic and the University of Minnessota Press.
  

Membership in Professional Organizations

• Modern Language Association
• Society of Literature Science and the Arts
• Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
• Indic Studies Network based at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies.

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