‘The Antilibrarian Project’
Drawing on the digital humanities and cultural informatics training I received at Jadavpur University’s School of Cultural Texts and Records, I created ‘The Antilibrarian Project’ on Instagram, which now has more than 45k+ followers. Here, I regularly write book reviews and create reels promoting local bookstores, World Literature, and Literature in translations to showcase voices and perspectives from culturally diverse aesthetic traditions and literary trends. The Antilibrarian Project is part of my larger Digital Humanities project, which aims to study market trends in publishing houses, social media algorithms, demographic reading practices, influences on generic curricula & syllabi, and the shifting perception of ‘Literature’ in the age of social media. I wish to expand the project into a podcast with invited guest speakers who will talk about literature and art cultures from the Global South and South Asia.
