My dissertation examines how caste in India, historically anchored in embodied and spatial regimes of untouchability, is reconfigured in twenty-first-century speculative fiction as it moves into urban, digital, and transnational spaces, and the complexities of this deterritorialization. The grant will support my participation in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Montreal, where I will take the course “Convivial Machine Learning”. This course’s speculative and hands-on approach will help me think critically about computation as an interpretive system and equip me with the conceptual tools to refine my understanding of how digital infrastructures complicate historically embedded systems of social hierarchy.
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