Staff
Ruvindra Sathsarani (MA)
Room : 462a
Phone: +49-(0)7071-29-76081
Office Hours- 11.00-12.30 (Tuesdays)
lehrstuhl.hotz-daviesspam prevention@es.uni-tuebingen.de
bellana-withanage.ruvindra-sathsarani@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Pathway
- Doctor of Arts, English Literature (University of Tubingen)
April 2023 onwards
This dissertation is based on the depiction of the commodification of the subaltern female worker and explores answers to Spivak's famous question from 1985,- what are the methods through which the voice-consciousness of the subaltern working classes can be accessed?
- Master of Arts in English Literature and Cultures (University of Tubingen)
October 2021- April 2023
Grade- 1.38
Thesis Title- In Search of Lost Daughters: An Analysis of Mother-Daughter Relationships in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Pericles Prince of Tyre and Cymbeline.
- Bachelor of Arts (English Honours) (University of Sri Jayewardenepura)
Thesis Title- The Writer in Transition. An Exploration of the Development of the Writer in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Stephen Hero.
Publications.
- Ceylon as an Exotic Escape in James Joyce’s Ulysses
- Where the Silence Speaks: Resistance Culture in Moroccan Post-Colonial Literature (Social Sciences Research Network).
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3808890
Conference/Workshop Presentations.
- Reading the Subaltern Worker through her Master: A Deconstructive Reading of the Master-Servant Narrative within Post-Colonial Capitalism. An Analysis of Mahasweta Devi’s Truth/Untruth (translated into English in 2023) through Derridian deconstruction. (Abstract selected for presentation at the conference “Neoliberal Global Capitalism: Challenges for Postcolonial Studies”, 29-31.05.2025, University of Bielefeld).
- "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."- Disintegrated Political Structures and the Rise of Populism in Recent German Politics. An Analysis of current German political events through Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. (Abstract selected for "The (Cognitive) Keys to the Hearts of Men. The Perlocutionary Power of Political Narratives,15-16.05.2025, University of Lyon, Jean Moulin 3).
- Female Chairs only for Precarious Times: The Conflict of Gender in Senior Academic Positions. (Abstract selected for presentation at the conference “Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures”, March 20-21, 2025, University of Passau)
- Re-Creating the Criminal: The Role of Photographs in Michael Ondaatje’s verse novel The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. (Abstract selected for presentation at the conference “Korrespondenzen: Fotografien in der Gegenwartsliteratur”, March 10-14 2025, University of Tübingen).
- In Search of a Lost Past- Memory and Oblivion in Literary Narratives: A Deconstructive Analysis. Presented at the Conference "Polarized Memories: Complicating Dichotomies in Narratives about the Past", Nov.12,2024, University of Tübingen.
- Writing from the Colonizer- The Problem of Land Ownership and Property Rights in the Aftermath of Settler Colonialism. Presented at the Postcolonial Symposium Oct. 5, 2024, University of Mainz.
- Unlocking Unheard Voices- The Representation of the Female Subaltern Worker in Literary Fiction through the short stories of Mahasweta Devi in her short story collection Outcast. Presented at the Conference "The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature". University of Tübingen · Jun 11, 2024
- Everyman is Watching You: Isolated Resilience against Terrors of Surveillance- Presented at the Conference "The Ordinary Magic of Resilience". University of Stuttgart · Feb 23, 2024
- Where the Silence Speaks: Resistance Culture in Moroccan Post-Colonial Literature. Presented at the 7th International Research Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) 2021 of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
Current Research Projects
- Title- "The Undiscovere'd Country"- Purgatory as a Place of Interpreting Affects. (Working Paper Under Review)
The study focuses on how depictions of purgatory in literary fiction help in the modelling of affects of confusion, their subjective experiences and transformations through George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo and Shehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
Research & Teaching Interests
- Shakespeare Studies
- Women's Writing in English
- Post-Colonial and Colonial Literature
- Modernist Writing in English
- Affect Theory & Literature
- Post-Structuralism
- Literary Stylistics
Recent Courses
Brexit and Shakespeare- Summer Semester 2025
