Sharanya curated data on the Digital Social Reading communities in India for her doctoral thesis, commenting on the various private and social dynamics of reading, and the current trends of reading amongst Indian readers. Her research interests include reading studies, digital pedagogy, cognitive literary studies, and mixed methods research in the Digital Humanities. In 2023 Sharanya and her co-authors won the prestigious Paul Forties Prize at the annual Alliance of the Digital Humanities Organizations conference organized by the University of Graz, Austria, for their work on the current Digital Humanities landscape of India. She was also awarded the Data Collection Abroad Fellowship in 2023 for her research visit to the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. For her postdoctoral project, Sharanya is looking at the evolution of digital reading amongst the Bengali readership analyzed from the lens of gender, generation, and mobility.
Notable Publications:
- Horváth, A. et al. "Multilinguality in Action: Towards linguistic diversity and inclusion in Digital Humanities". magazén: International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities. Edited by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities.
- Ghosh, S. & Banerjee, D. (2023). “Sociocultural Learning and Literary Pedagogy: An Overview of Collaborative Digital Annotation”. Puthiyedath, S. (Ed). Teaching English Literature in India: Pedagogy and Practice. 228-247. The English and Foreign Languages University Press, Hyderabad. (print). Ghosh, S. (2018).
- Ghosh, S. & Chattopadhyay, C. "The State of Digital Social Reading in India: A Qualitative Study". South Asian Popular Culture. Taylor & Francis.
- Dahiya, V.¹, Dahiya, L.¹, Ghosh, S.¹ & Chadha, A.² "Making(s) of DH journeys in India: Notes from the Field". Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Oxford University Press.