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Nalin Jayasena

Nalin Jayasena teaches courses on modern British literature, postcolonial South Asian literature and culture, and Asian and Asian American cinema. He has published several peer-reviewed essays on Sri Lankan cinema.

 

Teaching

Dr. Jayasena teaches courses on modern British literature, postcolonial South Asian literature and culture, and Asian and Asian American cinema. Since he was trained in the humanities, Nalin primarily teaches courses on literature and film but also teaches a course on Asia and globalization, which relies largely on social science scholarship.

Research

Dr. Jayasena is currently completing a book manuscript titled The Bounty of War: Cinema and the Sri Lankan Armed Conflict. He has published several peer-reviewed essays on Sri Lankan cinema. Nalin's first research project culminated in a book on British colonial literature and culture, Contested Masculinities: Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray (Routledge, 2007).

Education

• Ph.D., University of California at Riverside
• M.A., University of California at Riverside
• B.A., University of California at Riverside