Neloufer de Mel

Neloufer de Mel is a professor of English at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka and a feminist scholar.[1]

As a child, she attended Bishop's College, a private girls' school in Colombo.[2] She holds a PhD from the University of Kent, where her 1990 dissertation was entitled "Responses to History: The Re-articulation of Postcolonial Identity in the Plays of Wole Soyinka & Derek Walcott 1950–76".[3][4]

In 1999, de Mel was awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant;[5] in 2009 she was a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University;[6] and in 2019 she was a Dresden Senior Fellow at TU Dresden.[7]

Much of her work has focused on cultural studies of postwar Sri Lanka from a perspective of feminism, justice, and the arts.[7] She has written extensively on the militarization of Sri Lankan society during the quarter-century of ethnic war, and its lingering effects after the war's end.[7]

De Mel is also interested in multidisciplinary studies of gender, literature, film, and performance art and has served on juries for literature and film prizes and festivals.[3]

Works

Books
  • Women and the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka (2001)[8]
  • Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Armed Conflict (2007)[9]

References
  1. "Feminist Methodologies for Research on Masculinities in Sri Lanka". International Institute of Social Studies. December 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  2. "Prof. Neloufer de Mel on English Teaching". Sunday Island. 14 July 2005. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. "Neloufer de Mel". DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  4. Mel, Neloufer de (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 284. ISBN 9780742518070.
  5. "Grantees: Mel, Neloufer de". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  6. "Women, Religion & Gender: Fellows". Yale University. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  7. "Prof Neloufer de Mel – Dresden Senior Fellow at the Chair of English Literatures". Technische Universität Dresden. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  8. Mohanty, Sachidananda (2003). "Book Reviews: Neloufer de Mel, Women and the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka. New Delhi: Kali for Women. 2001. 296 pages. Rs. 250". Indian Journal of Gender Studies. 10 (3): 487–493. doi:10.1177/097152150301000308. S2CID 145252709.
  9. Nayar, Pramod K. (January 2008). "Book Review: Public Memory and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka". ESS Book Review.


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