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]
^"Feminist Methodologies for Research on Masculinities in Sri Lanka". International Institute of Social Studies. December 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
^"Prof. Neloufer de Mel on English Teaching". Sunday Island. 14 July 2005. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
^ ab"Neloufer de Mel". DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
^Mel, Neloufer de (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 284. ISBN 9780742518070.
^"Grantees: Mel, Neloufer de". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
^ abc"Prof Neloufer de Mel – Dresden Senior Fellow at the Chair of English Literatures". Technische Universität Dresden. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
Tiger and the Bloodsucker," draws from traditional Sinhalese folklore. NelouferdeMel, a modern critic, recognizes nascent nationalism in the sisters' writing...
balancing act | McKinsey". www.mckinsey.com. Retrieved 2022-10-03. NelouferDeMel Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth...
chairman of the panel of judges who awarded her the Gratiaen Prize NelouferdeMel said, of her first book "nothing prepares you is a remarkable first...
Radicalism and Feminism in South Asia. Women Unlimited. ISBN 9788188965403. Mel, Nelouferde (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth...
of Sri Lanka. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 978-1-932705-48-5. Mel, NelouferDe (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth...
riots, the police inspector general ordered that she be surveilled. deNeloufer, Mel (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth...
II. VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften. p. 32. ISBN 9783663095279. DeMel, Neloufer (2002). Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in the...
National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 25 January 2020. Mel, NelouferDe (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth...
spearheaded Lankan nationalism". Sunday Times. Retrieved 8 November 2019. DeMel, Neloufer (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth...
Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India (born 1876) Mel, NelouferDe (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth...
"SL forces prepare for Heroes Week". TamilNet. 19 November 1997. DeMel, Neloufer (2007). Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative...
personalities. Godage International Publishers. ISBN 9789552092947. Mel, deNeloufer; Mel, NelouferDe (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism...
Islands Mutiny. (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, WA, 2001) DeMel, Neloufer. Women & the nation's narrative: gender and nationalism in twentieth...
Trotskyism in Sri Lanka. Social Scientists' Association.; Mel, deNeloufer; Mel, NelouferDe (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism...
South: Trade Unions in Sri Lanka. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-90426-4. deMel, Neloufer (2001). Women & the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth...
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