Jaishree Odin is a literary scholar who is the director and a professor of the Program of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi.[1] Her research relates to cultural studies of science and technology, literary and political ecology, ecology and ethics, system's ecology, and eco-literacy.[2] Her work ranges from German philosophy[3] and the feminist angle to mysticism.[citation needed] She has also considered the current relevance of Shaivite theories of higher consciousness.[citation needed]
Jaishree is sister of computer scientists Avinash Kak and Subhash Kak.