Englisches Seminar

Staff

Ruvindra Sathsarani (MA)

Room : 462a                                                            

Phone:  +49-(0)7071-29-76081                                                

lehrstuhl.hotz-daviesspam prevention@es.uni-tuebingen.de

Academic Pathway 

  • Doctor of Arts, English Literature (University of Tubingen)

April 2023 onwards

I'm researching on the depiction of the commodification of the third-world woman and exploring answers for 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

DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v2i2.68

  • 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. 

  • 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)
  • In Search of a Lost Past- Memory and Oblivion in Literary Narratives. Workshop on "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) 

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 
  • Literary Stylistics