Title: Assistant Professor

M. Neelika Jayawardane teaches contemporary Southern African literature, film, and art; new memoirs and fiction centering on the transnational and postcolonial experience; and courses in globalization, theory, and culture.  Her primary and secondary education was at an all-girls' Buddhist school in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and a school set up by the Zambia Consolidated Cooper Mining Company in the Copperbelt Province in Zambia, where the city's public library was her first introduction to what she later understood to be her colonial subjectivity.  She holds a doctorate in English, with a focus in Creative Writing, from the University of Denver, Colorado; her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees are from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.  Her current research at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town focuses on the manner in which labouring bodies have been historically documented, removed, and erased in order to fulfil colonial desires – and how individuals have disconnected themselves from the branding machinery of the nation state as a means of protesting the categorization of the “Othered” body through the map of passports, visas, and permits.

The photograph was taken off Bantry Bay, Cape Town, by Italian photographer Emilia Ciccone.

email: jayaward@oswego.edu

Phone: (315) 312-2604

Office: Campus Center P303E

Office Hours: TR 4-5, and by appointment

Class Schedule: 
ENG 360/810, TR 9:35, Campus Center P322
ENG 360/820, TR 11:10, Campus Center P322
ENG 102/920, TR 2:20, Piez 230
ENG 395/595, T 5 - 6:30, Campus Center P322

Personal Web Site:  www.oswego.edu/~jayaward