Jaishree Odin is a post-modern literary theorist who teaches at the University of Hawaii

University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...

. She has examined the feminist angle to mysticism

Mysticism

Mysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...

 and considered the current relevance of Shaivite theories of higher consciousness

Higher consciousness

Higher consciousness, also called super consciousness , objective consciousness , Buddhic consciousness , cosmic consciousness, God-consciousness and Christ consciousness , are expressions used in various spiritual traditions to denote the consciousness of a human being who has reached a...

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She is one of the recent translators of Lalleshvari, the famed 14th century Kashmiri mystic and poet.

Odin has written extensively on technology mediated narrative forms as well as the role of technology in re-visioning higher education. Some of her published articles on electronic literature have dealt with the potential of the electronic media in depicting contemporary experience in multiple ways. Her work includes critical exploration of shattered visual metaphors in contemporary literature.

External

• Homepage http://www.hawaii.edu/is/faculty/odin.htm
• Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v043/43.3odin.html
• Computers and Culture http://www.hawaii.edu/aln/cul_imp.htm