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English literature and cultural studies
Diploma in English Language and Literature
Meegaswatta, T.N.K. (2026). Hyphenated Bodies, Disassociated Masculinities: Configurations of Sex and Gender in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. In: Raji, W. (eds) Gender and Sexuality in Transdisciplinary African Humanities. Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the
Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-18081-0_7
Horlacher, S. and Meegaswatta, T.N.K. (2006). Creating Meaning out of Dirt: Anuk’s Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage and the Point Zero of Signification. In S. Horlacher & T. Meegaswatta (Eds.) Contemporary Sri Lankan Art and Literature: The Creation of a New Community in the
Aftermath of War. Routledge.
Weerasinghe, K. and Meegaswatta, T.N.K. (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.
Meegaswatta, T.N.K. (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. (2026), Book Review: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka.
Kanchana N Ruwanpura and Amjad Mohamed Saleem (eds) Routledge, London, UK & New York,
USA, 2025, pp. xxi + 446. ISBN 978-1-032-29308-0 (hbk). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.
https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.70077
Meegaswatta, T. N. K. (2026). The friend I would die for: subversive homosocial imaginaries in South
Asian conflict literature. Global South Literary Studies, 1(1), 54–66.
https://doi.org/10.1080/30684781.2026.2639491
S. Horlacher, T. Meegaswatta. (2023). Book review: Silvia Mergenthal: A Man Could Stand Up:
Masculinities in British and Australian Literature of the Great War. Archiv für das Studium der
neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 260, 2, p. 444 – 445.
Meegaswatta, T. N. K. (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
Meegaswatta, T. N. K. (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
Meegaswatta, T. N. K. (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
Meegaswatta, T. N. K. (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
Meegaswatta, T. N. K. (2014). The representation of the masculine in Sylvia Plath’s poetry. Prabha:
Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya.
Meegaswatta, T. N. K. (2014). Nivedini Journal of Gender Studies, Vol 19, 1-22. Colombo: Women’s
Education & Research Centre (WERC).
Graduate Academy (TUD) Travel Awards for conference participation (2024)
OUSL Research Awards (2022)
AHEAD Scholarship (Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development), Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka. (2021)
Best Overall Presentation, 4th World Conference on Women’s Studies, 2018
Best Paper, Management, Social Sciences and Humanities session of the 9th International Research Conference, 2016 of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. (2016)
