Prof. Arjun Ghosh | Faculty Profile | IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi
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Research Areas

Digital Humanities Performance and Theatre Studies Authorship Copyright and Intellectual Property Political Communication

Biosketch

Arjun Ghosh is currently a Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He was formerly a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He is the author of A History of the Jana Natya Manch: Plays For the People, Freedom from Profit: Eschewing Copyright in Resistance Art and an annotated translator of Bijon Bhattacharya’s Nabanna (with a critical introduction).

Leadership & Service

President, the Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI).

Member of the Editorial Board, Digital Humanities Intersections.

Member of Programme Committee for DH2020 conference, Washington, USA.

Professional Affiliations

Founder - Governing Body Member, the Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI) (2018 to Present)

Member of Voyant Consortium – a consortium of international scholars and institutions for the Voyant Tools for Text Analysis.

Member, Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS)

Member, Science and Technology Studies India Network

Teaching Portfolio

Online Course for NPTEL-SWAYAM: Text, Textuality and Digital Media

Undergraduate course – Indian Theatre

Undergraduate course – Rise of the Novel

Undergraduate course – Codex to Hypertext

Post-graduate course – Foundations in Digital Humanities

Post-graduate course – Programming for the Digital Humanities

Post-graduate course – Introduction to Digitization

Post-graduate course – Political Theatre

Post-graduate course – Working with Humanities Data

Post-graduate course – Performance/Theatre: Theory/Practice

Post-graduate course – Authorship and Copyright

Awards & Recognitions
  • Winner of the Gyan-Setu National AI Innovation Challenge for India’s Manuscript Heritage, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, on 11-13 September 2025 as part of the Gyan Bharatam Mission. The award was received jointly with Chetan Arora (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi) for work on Lipikar, an OCR solution for over twenty Indian languages and scripts.