Contributor, South Asian Studies
Rimi Nandy is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus, India. She holds a Ph.D.in Arts (Studying Facebook as an Autofiction in the Indian context) from Jadavpur University, India, and specialises in Digital Humanities, platform studies, social media narrative, narratology, posthumanism, and Japanese Cultural Studies. Her research engages substantively with decolonial archival practice, with an empirical project documenting the oral traditions and endangered cultural memory of the Katkari indigenous community of Maharashtra. Her international recognitions include an Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Fellowship (Bath Spa University), a Solidarity Scholarship (University of Lausanne), and a HASTAC Scholars appointment (2024–2026). She has extensively published in the field of Digital Humanities and New Media Studies.