Professor Neloufer de Mel
Neloufer de Mel is Chair Professor of English at the Dept. of English, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. The author of Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Armed Conflict (2007), and Women and the Nation’s Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in 20th Century Sri Lanka (2001), her most recent co-edited volume is titled In the Shadow of Transitional Justice: Cross National Perspectives on the Politics of Remembrance (Routledge, 2021). Her work provides feminist, postcolonial and cultural studies perspectives on questions of gender justice and security, art and performance.
Areas of Research
Gender and culture; gender justice, arts based methods in conflict zones
Publications
- In the Shadow of Transitional Justice: Cross-National Perspectives on the Transformative Potential of Remembrance (London: Routledge, 2021).
- Conjunctures of Silence: Aphonias in the Prosecution of Conflict Related Sexual Violence in Sri Lanka – the Vishvamadhu Case (London: The Gender Justice and Security Hub, 2022).
- “Women’s Access to the Law: Gendering the Promise of Postwar Justice,” in In the Shadow of Transitional Justice: Cross-National Perspectives on the Transformative Potential of Remembrance, eds. Guy Elcheroth & Neloufer de Mel (London: Routledge, 2021) 125-137.
- “Actants and Faultlines: Janakaraliya and Theatre for Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka,” Theatre Research International 46 no. 1 (2021) 39-52.
- Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Armed Conflict (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007).
