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Nimanthi Rajasingham
Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
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English and Creative Writing, Women's Studies- T 1:00pm - 3:00pm (103 East Hall)
- W 1:00pm - 2:00pm (414 Lathrop Hall)
Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham's book, Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka's War, is an imprint of the series, Critical Insurgencies, published by Northwestern University Press. Her book explores the role that colonialism, contemporary forms of globalization, and nationalism play in the the production of ethnic identities and ethnic violence, as they are articulated in aesthetic content influenced by ethnographic modes and forms of inquiry. To this end, she studies popular rural festivals, female workers' theater, novels on ethnic war, theaters of trauma and violence, and protest art and literatures.
She has recently begun research on South Asian diasporas in South Africa, the UK, and the United States to explore their strategies of refusing segregation and racial domination in these countries, especially after the commencement of the War on Terror.
She completed her doctoral work at the English Department at Rutgers University (2013), and her Masters at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2002).
Watch an interview she did in South Africa about her research
