Suvendrini Perera is John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor and Research Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University.

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.

Selected works

Reaches of Empire: The English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens (Columbia University Press, 1991) Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats and Bodies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

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