New Award and Publications for Themal Ellawala
Themal Ellawala, PhD student and is currently teaching GLAS/GWS 263 this semester, just received milestone achievements.
Themal published two articles in leading journals on feminism/gender studies.
- Ellawala, T. I. (accepted). “Revisiting Austerity: Queer Aesthetics and Moral Disciplining.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies.
- Ellawala, T. I. 2023. “Indeterminacies: Queer Tales of Love and Suffering.” Feminist Review 133(1): 48-62.
He also won the 2024 Sarah Pettit Fellowship for participating in a dissertation workshop at Yale University.
Finally, you can hear an interview with him as part of Queering the (Court)Room, the Socio-Legal Review’s Special Series on the Indian Marriage Equality Debate. The title of the interview is “Of Shared Struggles Beyond the Water: A Sri Lankan Perspective with Themal Ellawala,” and you can listen to it here: https://www.sociolegalreview.com/post/of-shared-struggles-beyond-the-water-a-sri-lankan-perspective-with-themal-ellawala.
The Global Asian Studies community extends a huge congratulations on these fabulous accomplishments and for all the work he is doing in the classroom and beyond, with and for our students.
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