Dr.M.Thiruvarangan
Senior
Lecturer (Gr. 2) in English Literature
BA
(Hons.) in English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2009)
MA
in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA (2013)
PhD
in English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA (2019)
Email:
thiruvarangan@univ.jfn.ac.lk
(Official)/ mahevarangan@yahoo.com (Personal)
Telephone: 0212218162 (Office)
Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
Literature, Land and Coexistence
Nationalism and Postcoloniality
Radical Democracy
Review of Rahul K. Gairola’s Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transnational Belonging in South Asian Diaspora, vol. 10, no. 2, 2018, pp. 175-177. (Invited Publication)
“Imagining against the Nation State: Radical Singularity and Transnationalism in Nuruddin Farah’s Maps” in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 53, no. 6, 2017, pp. 702-714.
Review of Suvendrini Perera’s Survival Media in South Asian Diaspora, vol. 9, no. 2, 2017, pp. 226-228.
“Identities, Ideologies and Narrative Fissures: Reading Resistance in The Whirlwind.” In Phoenix: Sri Lanka Journal of English in the Commonwealth, vol. IX, 2012, pp. 127-138.
“Sri Lankan English: An ‘Other’ English or ‘Othering’ English?” in Trajectories of Language, Literature and Pedagogy: Two Hundred Years of English Language Use in Sri Lanka, 2012, pp. 11-22.
Unpublished Dissertations:
Being Together: Imaginaries of Coexistence and Resistance in Contemporary South Asian Writings. PhD Dissertation submitted to the PhD Program in English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA – September 2019. Supervisor: Prof. Peter Hitchcock
“Home” and “Homeland”: The Politics of Narrating the Exodus of 1995. Undergraduate Dissertation submitted to the Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka – July 2009. Supervisor: Dr. Sivamohan Sumathy
Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year (2019-2020), PhD Program in English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (shared with another person)
Florence J. Bloch Dissertation Fellowship (2018-2019), The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Calder Dissertation Fellowship (2017-2018), PhD Program in English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Graduate Center Fellowship (2013-2018), The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Teaching Associateship (2011-2013), The Writing Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
EFC Ludowyke Prize for English, University of Peradeniya (2010)
Leigh Smith Prize for Greatest Competency in English, University of Peradeniya (2010)
Ashley Halpé Scholarship for the student who obtained the highest marks in the first-year examinations in English, University of Peradeniya (2006)
Senior Lecturer (Gr. 2) in English Literature, Department of Linguistics & English, University of Jaffna, January 2021 to date
Lecturer (Probationary) in English Literature, Department of Linguistics & English, University of Jaffna, November 2018 to January 2021
Lecturer (Probationary) in English, Department of English, University of Peradeniya, January 2018 – November 2018
Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, Queens College, City University of New York, August 2017 – December 2017
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Queens College, City University of New York, August 2014 – May 2017
Graduate Research Fellow, The PhD Program in English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, August 2013 – May 2014
Teaching Associate, The Writing Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, August 2011 – May 2013
Temporary Assistant Lecturer in English Literature, University of Jaffna, February 2011 – August 2011; February 2010 – November 2010
Temporary Instructor in English, University of Peradeniya, July 2009 – February 2010
Editor, Maanudam Research Conference – 2022
Language Editor, UoJ News, Newsletter of the University of Jaffna -since 2021
Language Editor, Pathivu, Newsletter of the Faculty of Arts, Universityof Jaffna – since 2021
Member, Editorial Committee, 1st Undergraduate Research Symposium – 2021
Member of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna-October 2020 onwards
Member of the Committee on Academic Counselling, Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna – 2019 onward
Resource Person, Center for Open and Distance Learning – since 2019
Editor of the Newsletter of the University of Peradeniya – 2018
Member of the Gratiaen Trust – since January 2023