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Bio:

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University, Ireland. I research photographs from the 19th century; my specific interest is in tracing photographic circulation through structured data. I am also interested in data analysis and visualization. A short résumé, with the most recent work, follows.

Résumé

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Digital Humanities, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2016
• M.A. in English Literature, Jadavpur University, India, 2009
• B.A. in English Literature, Jadavpur University, India, 2007

Research

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Maynooth University, October 2016 to Present
• Doctoral Researcher, Trinity College Dublin, September 2011 to September 2015
• Research Assistant, Trinity College Dublin, December 2012 to February 2013

Projects

• Photo-circulation and Photographic Ontologies, October 2015 – Pesent
• Data Scientist and Workflow Coordinator, The Letters of 1916, October 2015 – Present
• Software Solutions Developer, Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge, October 2015 to Present
• Primary Web Architect and Co-editor, South Asia Digital Humanities (sādh), 2014 to Present
• Curator & Primary Web Architect, Recalling Jewish Calcuta, 2014
• Project Staff, Bichitra: Online Tagore Variorum, 2011

Teaching

• Lecturer and course coordinator for Creating Digital Humanities Artefacts (AFF609A), Maynooth University, 2016
• Lecturer and course coordinator for Analogue Pasts, Digital Futures (UG course), Maynooth University, 2016
• Lecturer for MA module on humanities data modelling (AFF604A), Maynooth University, 2016
• Lecturer and course coordinator for undergraduate course in Digital Humanities (AFF260), Maynooth University, 2015-16
• Adjunct lecturer on text mining, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University Calcutta, 2015-16
• Lecturer and course coordinator for undergraduate course in Digital Humanities (AFF260), Maynooth University, 2014-15
• Module lecturer on data visualisation, Maynooth University, 2013-14
• Module lecturer on text analysis, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University Calcutta, 2013-14

Workshop

• Workshop instructor, ‘Data-mining the Semantic Web and Visualizing the Results’, Arts Technology Research Lab, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, May 2015
• Workshop instructor, ‘XML, TEI, and Data Visualization’, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, April – May 2015
• Workshop instructor, ‘Spatial Data Visualization’, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 2015

Technical Proficiency

• Metadata attribution (with a focus on standards for visual resources)
• Structuring data with Linked Data technologies
• XML technologies including Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
• Relational databases & Graph databases
• Database query langauges inlcuding SQL & SPARQL
• Statistical analysis with R
• Programming with Python & Javascript
• Web development with HTML, CSS, and related Javascript frameworks

Conference Papers (recent)

• ‘Materiality and Metadata of Digitised Photographs: A Theoretical Inquiry’ at Digital Humanities 2016, Krakow, Poland, 2016
• ‘Notes from the Transcription Desk: Modes of engagement between the community and the resource of the Letters of 1916’ at Digital Humanities 2016, Krakow, Poland, 2016
• ‘The Many Lives of Photographs: The Image and the Object as Digital Data’ at Symposium on Research in the Digital Age, The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 2015
• ‘The Material and the Immaterial in an Age of Anxiety’ at Digital Material Conference, Galway, 2015
• ‘Considering Materiality: A Reflection of Images in Transformation’ at University of Cork, 2014
• ‘Readings of a Photograph: Cognition and Access’ at Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne, 2014

Publications

• ‘The Aftermath of Digitization: Studying the Synecdochic Photograph from the British Raj’, peer-reviewed, Critical Imprints, Department of English Loreto College: Kolkata, 2015
• Commissioned review of Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come, ed. Jerome McGann, Houston, Texas: Connexions, 2011. EQUAL: The Book Issue, Vol. 2, issue 1, January 2015
• Series of Photographs on the Book Trade in Calcutta, India, in Kolkata, Book City: Readings, Fragments and Images. ed. Jennie Renton and Sria Chatterjee. Kolkata: Textualities, 2009

Honours

• Paul Fortier Prize nominee
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Digital Repository of Ireland
• PRTLI V Digital Arts and Humanities Scholarship