Neloufer de Mel is a professor of English at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka and a feminist scholar.^[1]

As a child, she attended Bishop's College, a private girls' school in Colombo.^[2] She holds a PhD from the University of Kent, where her 1990 dissertation was entitled "Responses to History: The Re-articulation of Postcolonial Identity in the Plays of Wole Soyinka & Derek Walcott 1950–76".^[3][4]

In 1999, de Mel was awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant;^[5] in 2009 she was a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University;^[6] and in 2019 she was a Dresden Senior Fellow at TU Dresden.^[7]

Much of her work has focused on cultural studies of postwar Sri Lanka from a perspective of feminism, justice, and the arts.^[7] She has written extensively on the militarization of Sri Lankan society during the quarter-century of ethnic war, and its lingering effects after the war's end.^[7]

De Mel is also interested in multidisciplinary studies of gender, literature, film, and performance art and has served on juries for literature and film prizes and festivals.^[3]

• Women and the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka (2001)^[8]
• Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Armed Conflict (2007)^[9]

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