Scholarship
Ariyasinghe, Marlon. “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance. By Kellen Hoxworth. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2024. Pp. 280 + 20 Illus. $100 Hb; $36 Pb.” Theatre Research International 50, no. 1 (2025): 94–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883324000427.
Publications
Liyanage, Saumya, Honcharova, Lyudmyla, Ariyasinghe, Marlon (eds). “Lamp in a Windless Place: Developing an Actor Training Methodology through Sri Lankan Combative Art Angampora.”
Editorial Projects
Articles in Journals and Edited Volumes
Ariyasinghe, Marlon. “Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? Embodied Metaphors in Angampora.” Mise en Abyme, VIII, Issue 2, (July-December 2021).
Ariyasinghe, Marlon. “The Migrant Writer as Historian: A Glissantian Reading of the Construction of Sri Lankan History in Running in the Family, When Memory Dies and Cinnamon Gardens.” Phoenix: Sri Lanka Journal of English in the Commonwealth, XIII-XIV (2016/17), 72-82.
Ariyasinghe, Marlon. “Expatriate depictions of the village in Estuary and The Lament of the Dhobi Woman.”Phoenix: Sri Lanka Journal of English in the Commonwealth, 10-11 (2013), 89-96.
Reviews
Ariyasinghe, Marlon. “Chinaman" in The Literary Encyclopedia: Sri Lankan Writing and Culture, 10.3.4 Ed. by Birte Heidemann (September 2019). https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38944
Conference Presentations
“Performative Things: Gendered Violence and Revenant Resistance in Sri Lankan Kōlam.” FGSS Decolonizing Gender & Sexuality Conference. Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University, 1 May 2025.
“Racialized Other in Sri Lankan Rukada Natya: Race, Caste, and National Identity.” Poster presentation. RITM Race, Social Justice, and Democracy Plenary. Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale University, 25–26 October, 2024.
“Performing Counter Memory: Theatre as a Communal Space for Memorialization.” 53rd Annual Conference on South Asia. University of Wisconsin–Madison, 22–25 October, 2024.
“Trysts with the supernatural: (re)performing Sri Lankan Kolam.” Assemble. 29th Performance Studies International Conference. University of London, 20-23 June, 2024.
“Migrant Writer-Historian: A Glissantian reading of the construction of Sri Lankan History in Running in the Family, When Memory Dies and Cinnamon Gardens.” A Translocal World? Exploring the Postcolonial Today. 8th SLACLALS conference. Kandy, October 2016.
“The Vicious Cycle of Moral Hazard in Kate Jenning’s Moral Hazard and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.” Economies of English. SAUTE 2015. University of Geneva, April 2015. https://www.unige.ch/saute2015.
“Expatriate depictions of the village in Estuary and The Lament of the Dhobi Woman.” The Postcolonial in Transition. 7th SLACLALS conference, Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo, June 2013.
Awards and Fellowships
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies PhD Student Summer 2025 Research Grant
University of Calgary Artistic Research Award: “Honourable Mention” Workshop “Angam
Mechanics: Developing a performer’s bodymind through embodied repertoire” at Performance
Studies International, London, 2024.
RAISE: Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement Doctoral Fellowship ($9,000
project funding, 3 quarters of Tuition support, and stipend)
Arts + Justice Student Grant, The Stanford Arts Institute (SAI).
EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University.