Jaishree Odin
{{short description|Post-modern literary theorist}}
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Jaishree Odin is a literary scholar who is the director and a professor of the Program of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi.{{Cite web |url=http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/ |title=UHawaii site |access-date=February 16, 2015 |archive-date=February 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224133818/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/ |url-status=dead}} Her research relates to cultural studies of science and technology, literary and political ecology, ecology and ethics, system's ecology, and eco-literacy.{{Cite web|title = Jaishree Odin {{!}} Interdisciplinary Studies|url = http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/|website = manoa.hawaii.edu|access-date = 18 December 2015|archive-date = February 24, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200224133818/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/|url-status = dead}} Her work ranges from German philosophy{{cite book|last1=Nissler|first1=Paul J.|last2=University|first2=The Pennsylvania State|title=Overlapping aesthetic perspectives as international, revolutionary space in presentations from the German revolution to the Spanish Civil War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5F_P6FQO_EC&pg=PA390|access-date=March 27, 2012|year=2006|isbn=978-0-549-99193-9|pages=390–}} and the feminist angle to mysticism.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} She has also considered the current relevance of Shaivite theories of higher consciousness.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
Jaishree is sister of computer scientists Avinash Kak and Subhash Kak.
Education and career
Odin obtained a Master of Science degree in chemistry from India, following which she went on to earn a doctorate in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
Odin teaches in the Liberal Studies program at the University of Hawaii. Besides, she is the director of a Sloan foundation-funded online distance learning project at the university, which is intended to increase access to higher education in the state of Hawaii.{{Cite web|title = ELO State of the Arts Symposium: Jaishree Odin|url = https://eliterature.org/state/bio-OdinJaishree.shtml|website = eliterature.org|access-date = 18 December 2015}}
Works
=Translations=
She is one of the translators of Lalleshvari, the famed 14th century Kashmiri mystic and poet.To the other shore: Lalla's life and poetry. Hillsboro Beach: Vitasta (1999)J. Odin Kak, Mystical Verses of Lalla. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2009) She has also translated Kashmir's early Sufi poetry, especially that of Nunda Reshi.J. Odin, Lalla to Nuruddin: Rishi-Sufi Poetry of Kashmir. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2013) Odin's essays have been published in Commonwealth Studies and in the collection Postcolonialism and American Ethnicity.{{Cite web|title = Jaishree K. Odin – The Edge of Difference: Negotiations Between the Hypertextual and the Postcolonial – Modern Fiction Studies 43:3|url = http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/4930/postcolonial/odin.htm|website = yorku.ca|access-date = 18 December 2015}}
=Electronic literature=
Odin wrote To the Other Shore: Lalla's Life and Poetry (Vitasta Pub, 1999).
Odin's work includes Through the Looking Glass: Technology, Nomadology and Postmodern Narrative which the Electronic Literature State of the Arts Symposium describes as a critical exploration of shattered visual metaphors in contemporary literature which includes electronic literary forms.{{Cite web |date=March 1, 2023 |title=Biography |url=https://www.eliterature.org/state/bio-OdinJaishree.shtml |access-date=March 1, 2023 |website=Electronic Literature Organization}}
Odin has written extensively on technology-mediated narrative forms as well as the role of technology in re-visioning higher education.Manicas and Odin, Globalization and Higher Education. Mānoa: University of Hawaiʻi (2004) Some of her published articles on electronic literature have dealt with the potential of the electronic media in depicting contemporary experience in multiple ways.Ponzanesi, S. and Koen, L. On digital crossings in Europe. Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, Volume 5, Number 1, March 1, 2014, pages 3–22 Ponzanesi and Koen claim: "As Jaishree Odin has so aptly written, both the hypertext and the postcolonial are discourses are characterized by multivocality, multilinearity, open-endedness, active encounter and traversal. Both disrupt chronological sequences and spatial ordering (1997), allowing for a contestation of master narratives and the creation of subaltern positioning."
Odin's work includes critical exploration of shattered visual metaphors in contemporary literatureJ. Odin, Hypertext and the Female Imaginary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2010)
Awards
For her work, she has been awarded various awards and grants, including a Fulbright Research Fellowship, the Alfred Sloan Foundation award and University of Hawaiʻi Relations Research Award.
Bibliography
- [http://www.hawaii.edu/aln/cul_imp.htm Computers and Cultural Transformation]. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (1997).
- "[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v043/43.3odin.html The Edge of Difference: Negotiations Between the Hypertextual and the Postcolonial] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063825/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fmodern_fiction_studies%2Fv043%2F43.3odin.html |date=March 4, 2016}}". MFS Modern Fiction Studies 3 (43): 1997. Pages 598–630
- Globalization and Higher Education. Mānoa: University of Hawaiʻi (2004). {{ISBN|0-8248-2826-7}}
- Hypertext and the Female Imaginary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2010). {{ISBN|0-8166-6670-9}}
- To the other shore: Lalla's life and poetry. Hillsboro Beach: Vitasta (1999). {{ISBN|81-86588-06-X}}
- Mystical Verses of Lalla. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2009). {{ISBN|9788120832558}}
- Lalla to Nuruddin: Rishi-Sufi Poetry of Kashmir. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2013). {{ISBN|9788120836907}}
References
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External links
- [http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/ Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224133818/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/ |date=February 24, 2020}}
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