M. Neelika Jayawardane
Associate Professor of English at SUNY-Oswego.
She was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in a mining town in Copperbelt Province,
Zambia, and completed her education in the United States. Her Ph.D. is
in English, with a focus in Creative Writing, from the University of Denver,
Colorado. At SUNY-Oswego, she teaches transnational memoirs, and
fiction, film and visual art connected to the immigrant and postcolonial
experience, including contemporary Southern African and South Asian
work. Her academic publications focus on the nexus between South African
literature, photography, and the transnational/transhistorical implications of
colonialism and apartheid on the body. Her most recent work include an
essay on apartheid-era photography exhibit at the International Center for
Photography in Manhattan for
Art South Africa
and "Everyone's Got Their
Indian: A Photographic History of South Africa's Asians" in
Transitions
. She
is a regular contributor to the online magazine, Africa is a Country, and
has been a regular visiting fellow at the Centre for African Studies in the
University of Cape Town
neelika.jayawardane@oswego.edu
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