Roopika Risam
@roopikarisam.bsky.social
Author of DATA EMPIRE (Harper & Torva, July 2026), Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
Roopika Risam is an associate professor of film and media studies and of comparative literature and faculty in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster at Dartmouth College. She was formerly Chair of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education at Salem State University. She is a scholar of digital and postcolonial humanities. .. more
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Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: History
This season, culture wars and their origins are dissected, fascism and its opponents are profiled, and enclaves of the rich and famous are infiltrated.
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AAAAAAAAAAH. Publisher's Weekly named DATA EMPIRE one of the top 10 history books to look for Spring 2026!!!!!!!! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
I mean same. I just won’t cook with two buck chuck.
In 5 hours, the annual battle over Christmas Eve seafood night will commence, pitting the plebeians who think it’s acceptable to cook mussels in crap wine against me and my dad who believe you should only cook with wine you would drink.
In important math news: new shape just dropped (the noperthedron) www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine
After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.
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The noperthedron is the shape we all need for 2026.
It is totally warming my heart how many friends who are home for the holidays are telling me their parents are excited about my book 💖
I put on the Labubu episode to explain Labubus to my sister, left the room when it was over to do something else, then came back an hour later and my parents were watching the autoplaying episodes and in hysterics. 😳
I did not have my parents being enthralled by the current season of South Park on my 2025 bingo card but here we are.
Most of my life they didn't go on vacation because they didn't have vacation days and were saving for my college education. Now my dad's retired and my mom is salaried so they travel once a year and I'm glad to be able to do something for them for once.
I have always wanted to be able to send my parents on a vacation to the beach destination they have dreamed of visiting, and this is the year that I can finally do it. 🥰
knowing enough to be able to feel like they can teach effectively under the circumstances.
I see continuities with how we do/do not talk about academic dishonesty and plagiarism but with a side of technology that’s definitions and operations are unclear to people who don’t actually engage with it or scholarly discourse around it… I don’t expect them too but want a middle ground for +
Oh and the reason for trying to do anything related to this mess is students are floundering and many are making some questionable decisions, trust between students and faculty is eroding, and students want conversation and guidance.
Soooo goood. An excellent 6am read.
conversations. As many different kinds as possible since people gravitate to different places. And, to be clear, the baseline I am hoping for is “be able to articulate your position and engage students in a conversation.”
This whole situation is such a mess and I feel like I and several colleagues are in the position of having to try to fix a mess we didn’t make while countermessaging from on high works at cross purposes. My suggestion has been to tap into places where people are comfortable engaging and having +
Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here.
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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 27 | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | Manifold @CUNY
<h3>Edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh</h3>
<p>“More students in a single classroom; fewer instructors to engage them. Extravagant AI co...
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There is excellent work in this issue and you should read it!
I am so gonna have to watch it again!!!!
Legit my favorite movie when it came out and I was definitely too young for it.
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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 27 | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | Manifold @CUNY
<h3>Edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh</h3>
<p>“More students in a single classroom; fewer instructors to engage them. Extravagant AI co...
cuny.manifoldapp.org
Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here.
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
I really need to do that this year.
Sooooo many stories.
May we all look this great and have our memories as intact as his when we are 85.
It's my dad's 85th birthday! I showed him my digital project and he was excited. He recalled memories of Nkrumah's son from their London doctor days and then started naming everyone he knew who was involved in the Bandung conference. Maybe I am not the Welsh nationalist milkman's child after all! 🎈
Review: Visualizing Women in Science
A review of Visualizing Women in Science, a data visualization project examining the relationships between women scientists, directed by Serenity Sutherland, David Ragnar Nelson, and Bayard L. Miller
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* Visualizing Women in Science, a data visualization project examining the relationships between women scientists, directed by Serenity Sutherland, David Ragnar Nelson, and Bayard L. Miller, reviewed by @caitlynjones.bsky.social #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/visualiz...
Review: US Latina Writers
A review of US Latina Writers, a digital exhibit of US Latina Writers published by Arte Público Press between 1984 and 2024, directed by Monika Dabrowska, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, and Carolina Villaroe...
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* US Latina Writers, a digital exhibit of US Latina Writers published by Arte Público Press between 1984 and 2024, directed by Monika Dabrowska, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, and Carolina Villaroel, reviewed by @kelleykreitz.bksy.social #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/us-latin...
Review: George Eliot Archive (2025)
A review of George Eliot Archive, a resource providing access to and analysis of all of Eliot's writing, directed by Beverley Park Rilett
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* George Eliot Archive, a resource providing access to and analysis of all of Eliot's writing (re-reviewed for updates since 2020), directed by Beverley Park Rilett, reviewed by @lauramandell.bsky.social #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/george-e...
