Suvendrini Perera
Suvendrini Perera | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Cultural studies |
| Institutions | Curtin University |
Suvendrini Perera is John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor and Research Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University.[1][2]
Education and career
Perera completed her undergraduate education at the University of Sri Lanka and her PhD at Columbia University. She first taught at the City University of New York before moving to Australia and joining Curtin University.[1]
Selected works
- Reaches of Empire: The English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens (Columbia University Press, 1991) ISBN 9780231075787[3][4][5]
- Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats and Bodies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) ISBN 9780230613539[6][7]
- Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) ISBN 9781137444639[8]
References
- ^ a b "Suvendrini Perera". Curtin University. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
- ^ Perera, Suvendrini (6 November 2017). "In an Impaired State: Citizenship, Voice, Waste in Australia's Drama of Legitimacy". ABC News. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
- ^ Sabin, Margery (1993). "Review of Reaches of Empire: The English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens". Victorian Studies. 36 (3): 385–386. ISSN 0042-5222. JSTOR 3828334.
- ^ Peters, Ross (1992). "Review of Reaches of Empire: The English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens". Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Languages Association. 78 (1): 156. ProQuest 1311102240.
- ^ Zonana, Joyce (1993). "Review of Reaches of Empire: The English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens". Studies in the Novel. 25 (3): 363–365. ISSN 0039-3827. JSTOR 29532964.
- ^ Stratford, Elaine; McMahon, Elizabeth; Jackson, Mark; Farbotko, Carol (2011). "Reading Suvendrini Perera's Australia and the Insular Imagination". Political Geography. 30 (6): 329–338. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.06.001.
- ^ Pugliese, Joseph (2011). "Review of Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats, and Bodies". Continuum. 25 (1): 134–137. doi:10.1080/10304312.2011.538038.
- ^ Thiruvarangan, Mahendran (3 July 2017). "Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka". South Asian Diaspora. 9 (2): 226–228. doi:10.1080/19438192.2017.1280934.