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Ruvindra Sathsarani (MA)
Room : 462a
Phone: +49-(0)7071-29-76081
lehrstuhl.hotz-davies@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
- Where the Silence Speaks: Resistance Culture in Moroccan Post-Colonial Literature (Social Sciences Research Network).
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3808890
Conference Presentations
- Writing from the Colonizer- The Problem of Land Ownership and Property Rights in the Aftermath of Settler Colonialism (abstract selected for the Postcolonial Symposium October 4-5 2024, University of Mainz)
- Unlocking Unheard Voices- The Representation of the Female Subaltern Worker in Literary Fiction. 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.
Currenct Research Projects
- Title- "The Uniscovere'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 expereinces and transformations through George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo and Shehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
Research Interests
- Shakespeare Studies
- Women's Writing in English
- Post-Colonial and Colonial Literature
- Modernist Writing in English
