Been somewhat consistent with my blogging. Let me know if you have any thoughts or get a moment to read/browse any of these. :-) medium.com/@sritamachat...

What advice do you have for a graduate student who has only a few more months of access to institutional resources in the USA? Any advice about back-up, storage, software, writing and training programs that I should have that will help me in navigating the next phase. No job. Field: Humanities.

What advice do you have for a graduate student who has only a few more months of access to institutional resources in the USA? Any advice about back-up, storage, software, writing and training programs that I should have that will help me in navigating the next phase. No job. Field: Humanities.

I have spent so many months and years just translating the primary texts for my dissertation. HOW HAVE I NEVER WRITTEN ABOUT TRANSLATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE publicly? Like, why?

If the MLA is going to suppress our ability to discuss important issues and take collective action, we can withhold our dues & stop doing service for them. Join me in pledging to not renew your membership & to resign from any governance/leadership position you hold: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Oh hey, just a thing I wanted to share with other teachers. Some of my students are using AI in a way I did not anticipate, and so I did not warn specifically against it. (Some of the warning I gave covered this in a general sense but I want to be more specific in future.) So: a lil thread.

i did not spend my whole undergrad listening to speeches about the importance of using scholarly sources to now accept ChatGPT as a legitimate source of information just because technocrats have lost their minds

This is truly an amazing resource on close reading www.closereadingarchive.org/teaching

Will you read if I write a short blog piece of 800-1000 words? Alternatively any places looking for short and hot takes?

Hello! Bluesky. This is Sri(Sritama). I am a researcher and teacher in Postcolonial Environmental Humanities, Oceanic Literature and Feminist methods. Looking to connect with folks with similar(ish) interests but does not have to. Here for community and banter.