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Sandamini Ranwalage

Assistant ProfessorSandamini Ranwalage

Office: Palamountain 317
Phone: 518-580-5193
Email: sranwalage@skidmore.edu

Education:

  • B.A. University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
  • M.A. and Ph.D. Miami Univeristy, Ohio
Teaching and research interests:
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Theater and Performance Studies
  • South Asia and South Asian Diaspora
  • Nostalgia Studies
  • New Media and Popular Culture
  • Gender Studies
Courses taught:
  • EN 105: Nostalgia
  • EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 237: Postcolonial Literature
  • EN 238: World Literature
Publications:
  • “Uncivil Performances: National Politics of the Sri Lankan Theatre Space.” South Asian Review, Vol. 43, No. 3-4, 2022, pp. 231-248. 

  • “Everywhere, All the Time, 3:42—Collaborative Encounters with the Mundane.” Performance Research, Vol. 28, Issue 4, 2024.

  • “‘Hello, It’s Me, Auntie Netta! I Am Calling from Abroad’: Aunties and Digital Diasporas in Nimmi Harasgama’s Online Performances.” Global Sri Lankan Literature and Culture, special issue of the South Asian Review. (Forthcoming 2024)