Samya Brata Roy

Assistant Professor

Department of English and Other Languages

GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Hyderabad

Education

sroy4@gitam.edu

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Samya works in E-Lit, Games and DH. He is an affiliate faculty at San Diego State, a researcher with Regensburg and has a PhD from IIT Jodhpur. He was a fellow with SAS London, ELO and HASTAC. He is currently editing special issues with the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia and Reviews in DH. He co-founded eLitIndia, is a governing member of DHARTI and a graduate member of ARDIN. He was an IITF member of ADHO, a tech member of hcommons and a liaison with ACH.

Research Publications

Roy, Dibyadyuti, Roy, Samya Brata and Kayal, Surojit Community and Digitality in/of Indian DH: Exploring Legacies, Presents and Futures: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice, eds. Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard J. Lane and Ray Siemens, Routledge UK, July 2025 ISBN 9781032333854.
e-Sahitya, or the contested emergence of the electronic within the literary in India, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2025. ISSN:1361-4568. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2025.2453677
Ensslin, Astrid and Roy, Samya Brata Electronic LiteratureS as Postcomparative Media, CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, Classiques Garnier (Paris), vol 5, no. 1, May 24, 2023, pp. 145- 172. ISSN: 2780-2523. https://doi.org/10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14861-6
Hitman 2 and its spectre of Mumbai: A city lost in translation: Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India, eds. Nishat Zaidi and A. Sean Pue, Routledge India, December 2022 ISBN 9781032406756.
Indian Solo Electronic Writing and its Modernist Print Anxiety, Electronic Book Review, January 9, 2022, ISSN: 1553-1139 https://doi.org/10.7273/sj5h-fa44.

Expertise

Electronic Literature
Videogame Studies
Digital Humanities
New Media Studies
Literary Studies