Jaishree Odin’s current areas of teaching and research include cultural studies of science and technology, literary and political ecology, ecology and ethics, system’s ecology, eco-literacy and wisdom traditions.
Odin has 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).
Another area of Odin’s research has been 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. She has also contributed to the Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia, ed. Phyllis G. Jessica. ABC-Clio, 2004; and Brill Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, ed. Knut A. Jacobsen, Brill Pub. 2012. Her recent translation project, funded by a Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, has been published as Lalla to Nuruddin: Rishi-Sufi Poetry of Kashmir, Motilal Banarasidass Pub., 2013.
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.
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