Thilini Meegaswatta

DAAD Research Scholar

Ms Thilini Meegaswatta M.A.

Chair of English Literary Studies

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang / Background

since 2021	Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Chair of English Literature, Technische Universität Dresden
since 2020	Doctoral researcher in English literary studies, Technische Universität Dresden
since 2018	Lecturer at the Department of Language Studies of The Open University of Sri Lanka
2014- 2017	M.A. in English Studies, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
2013-2018	Lecturer (probationary) at the Department of Languages of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka
2013	Lecturer (temporary) at the Department of English of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
2008-2013	B.A. Honours Degree in English (Second Class Upper Division Honours) University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

DAAD Scholarship for PhD funding, The German Academic Exchange Service, Germany.
AHEAD Scholarship (Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development), Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka.
Best Overall Presentation at the 4th World Conference on Women’s Studies, 2018
Session’s Best Presentation in the session titled Conflict, War, and Armed Struggle of the 4th World Conference on Women’s Studies, 2018
Best Paper at the Management, Social Sciences and Humanities session of the 9th International Research Conference, 2016 of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University

A member of the organizing committee of Notes from the Bamboo Grove: Poetry & Music for International Women’s Day, 2019 at Temple Tress.
Technical Session Judge at the Social Sciences and Humanities session of the 11^th International Research Conference, 2018 of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University.
Co-secretary of the 7^th International Research Conference- 2014 organized by the Kotelawala Defence University.
Co-cordinator of the National Consultative Workshop on Preventing Sexual & Gender Based Violence in Sri Lankan Universities-2014 organized by the Centre for Gender Studies, UoK (CGSUK) and CARE International.
A member of the organizing committee and a participant of the Consultative Workshop on Sexual and Gender Based Violence -2013 organized by the CGSUK and the Staff Development Unit, UoK
Member of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Asian Art, Culture and Heritage- 2013 organized by the Centre for Asian Studies, UoK
Coordinator for the National Workshop ‘Enhancing Gender Equity / Equality in Sri Lankan Universities’ - 2013 organized by the CGSUK

(2022). "Rohini Mohan's The Seasons of Trouble (2014): Sri Lanka's Tamil women in war and its aftermath". Contemporary South Asia. DOI:10.1080/09584935.2022.2086969
(2022). "Men and Masculine Identities in Life Narratives of Sri Lanka’s War". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2022.2055914
(2021). "The Balancing Act: Employed Women Navigating the COVID-19 Lockdown in Sri Lanka". South Asian Survey. 28(1), 157–171. SAGE. DOI: 10.1177/0971523121993342
(2019). "Violence as site of women’s agency in war: the representation of female militants in Sri Lanka’s post-war literature". Journal of International Women’s Studies, 20 (3), 28-43. Massachusetts: Bridgewater State University. Available at https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol20/iss3/4
(2014). "The representation of the masculine in Sylvia Plath’s poetry". Prabha: Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya.
(2014). "Female stereotypes in television advertising: Representations and repercussions". Nivedini Journal of Gender Studies, Vol 19, 1-22. Colombo: Women’s Education & Research Centre (WERC).

Kasuni Weerasinghe and Thilini Meegaswatta (2022). ‘Working Women in Sri Lanka’ in J. Parker, M. Baird, N. Donnelly And R. Cooper (Eds.) Women and Work in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences, challenges and ways forward. Massey University Press.
(2018). "Semantic Innovation in Sri Lankan English: Usage and Acceptance". In S. Vural, E. Erinç and A. Küçükler (Eds.), Understanding Culture through Language and Literature. (pp. 61-80). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Meegaswatta, T.N.K., Willarachchi, L., Chamba, Z.N., Niles, J. S. (2019). "Immortal Online: A Study of Digital Storytelling on Deceased Subjects". 20th International Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka (forthcoming).
(2016). "Digital Democracy: Constructing a Citizen’s History on Cyberspace". Proceedings in Management, Social Sciences and Humanities, 9th International Research Conference. Ratmalana: General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University.
(2015). "Monsoons and Potholes: A postcolonial Autoficition". In Fourth International Literary Criticism Conference Proceedings. Istanbul: DAKAM Publishing. ISBN: 978-605-9207-09-6
(2014). "Writing post-coloniality: Boundaries of Sri Lankan poetry and hierarchies within the continuum". In Literature & Culture. Kayseri, Turkey: Faculty of Arts, Erciyes University.
(2013). "New regimes and old structures: An analysis of ideological shifts and strategies of change in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura". In Manathunga, A., Wettewe, C.D.S. (Eds.) Asian, Art, Culture and Heritage. Colombo: IAAH.