Dr. Deepshikha Behera is an IASH Digital Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. A comparatist working on untranslatability and language plurality in the Global South, Deepshikha received her doctorate in 2025 from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. Since September 2024, she has been a collaborator on the AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation Project at the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre, University of Oxford.
Her postdoctoral project engages with questions of AI ethics, creativity, and the integration of multimodal resources of ‘low-resource’ languages in LLM hard assessment, rethinking the notion of decoloniality in AI. She is a member of the Creativity, AI, and the Human cluster at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Deepshikha also serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Oral History Association of India and is an Early Career Member of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)’s Research Development Committee. She is one of the founding members of Comparatists in Conversation, a digital platform connecting a global network of scholars working across interdisciplinary areas. She has previously taught at the University of Hyderabad, India.
