Mr. Shail Jha currently serves as Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Haridwar Campus. His research explores the intersections of contemporary human migration, nostalgia, new media, and films. He is interested in how migration and memory shape identity in an increasingly digitised world. Additionally, he examines how new media platforms visibilise rural socio-cultural milieus, alongside marginalised, gendered, and othered expressions.
During his PhD, he has worked as a Teaching Assistant at BITS, Goa and as a Mentor for the BITS Online Programme. He has assisted faculty in teaching undergraduate courses, and has worked on evaluation and grading for multiple Humanities and Social Sciences courses.
As a technical writer, he has collaborated with software developers to author internal and client-facing documentation. He has also helped establish documentation processes and procedures for the technical writing team. Overall, he has authored help files, process-architecture documents, application guides, and design and development documents for software. Drawing from his experience as a technical writer in IT companies, he aims to equip students to write effectively and professionally.
He is keen on teaching literature and film studies, and fostering discussions that connect texts and media to cultural contexts. He firmly believes in the scientific method and is interested in cosmology and astrophysics, evolutionary biology, human migrations, and the history of animal domestication. Science and the humanities are deeply interconnected – philosophies in one discipline enrich the other. He wants students to explore connections between empirical inquiry and human narratives.