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'''Jaishree Odin''' is a literary scholar who is the director and a professor of the Program of Interdisciplinary Studies at the [[University of Hawaiʻi]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/ |title=UHawaii site |access-date=February 16, 2015 |archive-date=February 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224133818/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> Her research relates to cultural studies of science and technology, literary and [[political ecology]], ecology and ethics, system's ecology, and eco-literacy.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Jaishree Odin {{!}} Interdisciplinary Studies|url = http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/|website = manoa.hawaii.edu|access-date = 18 December 2015|archive-date = February 24, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200224133818/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/|url-status = dead}}</ref> Her work ranges from German philosophy<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nissler|first1=Paul J.|last2=University|first2=The Pennsylvania State|title=Overlapping aesthetic perspectives as international, revolutionary space in presentations from the German revolution to the Spanish Civil War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5F_P6FQO_EC&pg=PA390|access-date=March 27, 2012|year=2006|isbn=978-0-549-99193-9|pages=390–}}</ref> and the [[feminist]] angle to [[mysticism]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} She has also considered the current relevance of [[Shaivite]] theories of [[higher consciousness]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Jaishree is sister of computer scientists [[Avinash Kak]] and [[Subhash Kak]].

==Education and career==
Odin obtained a Master of Science degree in chemistry from India, following which she went on to earn a doctorate in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Odin teaches in the Liberal Studies program at the University of Hawaii. Besides, she is the director of a [[Sloan foundation]]-funded online distance learning project at the university, which is intended to increase access to higher education in the state of Hawaii.<ref>{{Cite web|title = ELO State of the Arts Symposium: Jaishree Odin|url = https://eliterature.org/state/bio-OdinJaishree.shtml|website = eliterature.org|access-date = 18 December 2015}}</ref>

==Works==
===Translations===
She is one of the translators of [[Lalleshvari]], the famed 14th century [[Kashmir]]i [[mysticism|mystic]] and poet.<ref>To the other shore: Lalla's life and poetry. Hillsboro Beach: Vitasta (1999)</ref><ref>J. Odin Kak, Mystical Verses of Lalla. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2009)</ref> She has also translated Kashmir's early Sufi poetry, especially that of Nunda Reshi.<ref>J. Odin, Lalla to Nuruddin: Rishi-Sufi Poetry of Kashmir. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2013)</ref> Odin's essays have been published in ''Commonwealth Studies'' and in the collection ''Postcolonialism and American Ethnicity''.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Jaishree K. Odin – The Edge of Difference: Negotiations Between the Hypertextual and the Postcolonial – Modern Fiction Studies 43:3|url = http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/4930/postcolonial/odin.htm|website = yorku.ca|access-date = 18 December 2015}}</ref>

===Electronic literature===
Odin wrote ''To the Other Shore: Lalla's Life and Poetry'' (Vitasta Pub, 1999).

Odin's work includes ''Through the Looking Glass: Technology, Nomadology and Postmodern Narrative'' which the Electronic Literature State of the Arts Symposium describes as a critical exploration of shattered visual metaphors in contemporary literature which includes electronic literary forms.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 1, 2023 |title=Biography |url=https://www.eliterature.org/state/bio-OdinJaishree.shtml |access-date=March 1, 2023 |website=Electronic Literature Organization}}</ref>

Odin has written extensively on technology-mediated narrative forms as well as the role of technology in re-visioning higher education.<ref>Manicas and Odin, Globalization and Higher Education. Mānoa: University of Hawaiʻi (2004)</ref> Some of her published articles on electronic literature have dealt with the potential of the electronic media in depicting contemporary experience in multiple ways.<ref>Ponzanesi, S. and Koen, L. On digital crossings in Europe. Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, Volume 5, Number 1, March 1, 2014, pages 3–22</ref> Ponzanesi and Koen claim: "As Jaishree Odin has so aptly written, both the hypertext and the postcolonial are discourses are characterized by multivocality, multilinearity, open-endedness, active encounter and traversal. Both disrupt chronological sequences and spatial ordering (1997), allowing for a contestation of master narratives and the creation of subaltern positioning."

Odin's work includes critical exploration of shattered visual metaphors in contemporary literature<ref>J. Odin, Hypertext and the Female Imaginary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2010)</ref>

==Awards==
For her work, she has been awarded various awards and grants, including a [[Fulbright]] Research Fellowship, the [[Alfred Sloan Foundation]] award and University of Hawaiʻi Relations Research Award.

==Bibliography==
*''[http://www.hawaii.edu/aln/cul_imp.htm Computers and Cultural Transformation]''. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (1997).
*"[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v043/43.3odin.html The Edge of Difference: Negotiations Between the Hypertextual and the Postcolonial] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063825/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fmodern_fiction_studies%2Fv043%2F43.3odin.html |date=March 4, 2016}}". ''MFS Modern Fiction Studies'' 3 (43): 1997. Pages 598–630
*''Globalization and Higher Education''. Mānoa: University of Hawaiʻi (2004). {{ISBN|0-8248-2826-7}}
*''Hypertext and the Female Imaginary''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2010). {{ISBN|0-8166-6670-9}}
*''To the other shore: Lalla's life and poetry''. Hillsboro Beach: Vitasta (1999). {{ISBN|81-86588-06-X}}
*''Mystical Verses of Lalla.'' Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2009). {{ISBN|9788120832558}}
*''Lalla to Nuruddin: Rishi-Sufi Poetry of Kashmir.'' Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (2013). {{ISBN|9788120836907}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/ Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224133818/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/is/jaishree-odin/ |date=February 24, 2020}}

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