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| Sonali Perera |
| Assistant Professor of English |
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Contact Information |
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Murray Hall, 008 |
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College Ave, New Brunswick |
| Email: |
sonali.perera@rutgers.edu |
| Telephone: |
(732) 932-7214 |
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| Specialization |
| postcolonial studies, South Asian literature, feminist theory |
| Biography |
B.A., University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor Perera has written on the representation of race and class struggles in postcolonial Sri Lankan literature and theory. She is currently completing her first book All that is present and moving: Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization. Covering four continents (Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe), her book brings the labor of translation and methodologies of comparative literature and subaltern studies to bear upon questions of genre and formation. Recuperating and articulating an archive of multilingual texts from across the global economic North-South divide, her book accounts for an extended chronology and expanded map of traditions of literary internationalism, including those of the 1930s All-India Progressive Writers Associations, US popular front literary radicalism, and the NGO (non-governmental) human rights and feminist presses of the contemporary global South.
Professor Perera’s research interests include histories of internationalism, world literature, Marxist theory, feminist theory, subaltern studies, postcolonial literature, globalization studies, comparative literature,human rights, and comparative ethnic studies. From 2006-2008, she served on the executive board of the national non-profit organization, SAALT. At Rutgers, she is a core faculty member of the South Asia Studies Program and affiliated graduate faculty in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. |
| Articles |
"Rethinking Working-Class Literature: Feminism, Globalization, and Socialist Ethics"
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2008
"Between Politics and Ethics: Lessons from Contemporary Sri Lanka", Postcolonial Studies, Volume 10, Number 3, September 2007
"(Where) Language Acts in When Memory Dies", Nethra, Volume 4, Number 3&4, April-September 2000
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| Undergraduate Courses Taught |
Graduate Courses Taught: |
Gender and Genre: Real and Imagined Women
Postcolonial Texts: Literature, History, Ethics
Feminism and Globalization
Postcolonial Texts: From Internationalism to Counter-Globalist Struggle
South Asian Writing in a Global Context: Literature and Theory |
Postcolonial Texts and the Critique of Historicism
Rethinking Working-Class Literature: Feminism and Globalization |
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