She is the co-founder of Postcolonial Digital Humanities (#dhpoco), a movement that foregrounds global explorations of difference within cultures of technology. Along with #dhpoco collaborator Adeline Koh, Roopika is co-writing a book on postcolonial studies and digital humanities. Roopika is the co-director of The Harlem Shadows Project, an experiment in producing digital critical editions of public domain texts, with Chris Forster, as well as co-director of Digitizing Chinese Englishmen, a digital archival recovery project, with Adeline Koh. Roopika’s research interests span postcolonial, African American, and Black British literary and cultural studies, as well as digital pedagogy and secondary education teacher preparation. Roopika is a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the founding editorial board of DHCommons, and MLA Delegate Assembly.