Maryse Jayasuriya, Ph.D.
Professor
English
Education
B.A. Mount Holyoke College
M.A. Purdue University
Ph.D. Purdue University
Research Interests
Postcolonial literature and theory; South Asian literature; 20th and 21st century British literature; Asian American literature; Feminist criticism and theory; trauma studies; immigration.
Publications and Media Placements
Books:
Authored:
Terror and Reconciliation: Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature, 1983-2009. Lexington, March 2012.
Edited Volumes and Special Issues:
Critical Insights: The Immigrant Experience. Salem Press, April 2018.
Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature: Special Issue of South Asian Review 33.3. Co-edited with Aparna Halp茅. 389 pp; December 2012.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
鈥淐umulative Trauma, Structural Racism, and Displacement in Contemporary Sri Lankan
Fiction: Sharon Bala鈥檚 The Boat People and Anuk Arudpragasam鈥檚 The Story of a Brief
Marriage.鈥� Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature edited by Goutam Karmakar and Zeenat Khan. Routledge, 2022. 193-201.
鈥淓thics and Empathy in Sri Lankan Representations of Refugees.鈥� Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture edited by Waseem Anwar and Nosheen Yousaf. Routledge, 2022. 366-377.
鈥淲ar and Identity: Writing the Sri Lankan Ethnic Conflict.鈥� MLA Volume on Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers. Ed. Deepika Bahri and Filippo Menozzi. Modern Language Association of America, 2021.
79-97.
鈥淢igration and Sexuality in S.J. Sindu鈥檚 Marriage of a Thousand Lies.鈥� Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women鈥檚 Narratives: Alien Domiciles. Ed. Shilpa Daithota Bhat. Lexington, 2020. 95-106.
鈥淎spiration and Disillusionment: Undocumented Experiences in Imbolo Mbue鈥檚 Behold
the Dreamers.鈥� Critical Insights: The Immigrant Experience. Ed. Maryse Jayasuriya. Salem Press, 2018. 196-208.
鈥淏ricks, Mortar, Words: Memorializing Public Spaces Destroyed in the Sri Lankan Ethnic
Conflict.鈥� South Asian Review Volume 37.3 (2017): 25-36.
鈥淩eading Terror, Reading Ourselves: Conflict and Uncertainty in Mohsin Hamid鈥檚 The
Reluctant Fundamentalist.鈥� Critical Approaches: Multicultural. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Salem Press, 2017. 249-261.
鈥淐arl Muller鈥檚 Palimpsestic Urban Elegy in Colombo: A Novel.鈥� Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature. Ed. Madhurima Chakraborty and Umme Al-wazedi. Routledge, 2016. 223-238.
鈥淟egacies of War in Current Diasporic Sri Lankan Women鈥檚 Writing.鈥� Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Volume 10. 1 (2016): 145-156.
鈥淭error, Trauma, Transitions: Representing Violence in Sri Lankan Literature.鈥� Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies Volume 3 (2016): 195-209.
鈥淚rony and Epistolary Form in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni鈥檚 鈥楳rs. Dutta Writes a Letter鈥�
and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie鈥檚 鈥楾he Thing Around Your Neck.鈥欌�� Contemporary Immigrant Short Fiction: Critical Insights. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Salem Press, 2015. 195-207.
鈥淎mnesia, Hallucinations and Fantasy: Narrating Sri Lanka鈥檚 Post-War Conflict in Romesh
Gunesekera鈥檚 Noontide Toll and Lal Medawattegedera鈥檚 Playing Pillow Politics at the
MGK.鈥� Phoenix: Sri Lanka Journal of English in the Commonwealth XII (2015). Special Issue edited by Senath Perera.
鈥淲omanly 鈥楢cts鈥�: 鈥楢ttaining Age鈥� in Contemporary Sri Lankan Writing.鈥� South Asian Review 34.3 (2013): 121-131. Special Issue on Gender and Sexuality in South Asian Literature
and Culture edited by Kanika Batra.
鈥淓xploding Myths: Representing the Female Suicide Bomber in the Sri Lankan Context
in Literature and Film.鈥� Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies 4.1 (2013): 233-257. Special Issue on Women Suicide Bombers edited by V.G. Julie Rajan.
鈥溾�榃riting is not a unilateral act鈥�: An Interview with Vivimarie VanderPoorten.鈥� South Asian Review 33.3 (2012): 315-325.
鈥淐ontestation, Marginality and (Trans)Nationalism: Considering Sri Lankan Anglophone
Literature.鈥� With Aparna Halp茅. South Asian Review 33.3 (2012): 17-28.
鈥淪exuality, Class and Consumption in Punyakante Wijenaike鈥檚 Giraya.鈥� Margins 1.1 (2011): 147-63.
鈥淭he Shadow Class鈥�: Immigration and Class in Contemporary South Asian/American Fiction.鈥�
Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. 10.1 (2009): 69-81.
鈥淓xotic Ruses?: Sri Lanka as seen through Romesh Gunesekera鈥檚 Reef and Michael Ondaatje鈥檚
Anil鈥檚 Ghost.鈥� South Asia and Its Others: Reading the 鈥楨xotic.鈥� Ed. Atreyee Phukan and Julie Rajan. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 102-22.
鈥溾�榁iolence spilt blood smashed glass鈥�: Representations of Sri Lanka鈥檚 Conflict in
the Works of Jean Arasanayagam and Kamala Wijeratne.鈥� South Asian Review 29.1 (2008): 83-102. Special Issue on South Asian Women Writers edited by Feroza Jussawalla
and Deborah Weagel.