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Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe is a Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education at Stanford University. Lakmali completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Stanford University and has been teaching and mentoring both college and high school students since 2004. In 2016, Lakmali was awarded the Stanford-City College of New York Teaching Fellowship, while in 2020, she was selected as a Provostâs Teaching Fellow. Lakmali has taught a variety of courses in the liberal arts and the humanities intersecting literature, film, comparative literature, philosophy, literary theory, linguistics, history, global health, medicine, human biology, law, ethics, and human rights. She has also facilitated ten quarter-long workshops for the Stanford Humanities House. Lakmali is an Assistant Editor of the Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopaedia (General Editor: Prof. Patricia Parker; Associate Editor: Prof. Roland Greene), and a Senior Editor of the Stanford International Policy Review (Chair of Faculty Advisory Board: Prof. Francis Fukuyama). She is also a Research Associate at the Poetic Media Lab; a digital humanities lab at Stanfordâs Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). During the 2021-2022 academic year, Lakmali is affiliated with the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester, New York as an Associate of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on âUnbordering Migration in the Americas: Causes, Experiences, Identitiesâ. In 2016/17, she was a Visiting Ph.D. Scholar at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, New York. Lakmali has won over twenty fellowships and awards during the last few years, the most recent being the 2021 Stanford Historical Societyâs Susan W. Schofield Oral History Award for Excellence in the Practice of Oral History for her oral history project âIn Transit: An Oral History Project on Crossing Bordersâ. During four consecutive years, she won awards at the Annual Korean Literature Essay Competition (double-blind and peer reviewed) organized by the Korea Translation Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. Lakmali was also the recipient of the Graduate Film Studies Academic Paper Prize awarded by the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the recipient of the Fulbright MA Fellowship, the Endeavor Award (to pursue doctoral studies at the Australian National University), the Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellowship awarded by the Stanford Humanities Center, and several fellowships and grants awarded by the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies, the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, the Stanford Europe Center, the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, and the Stanford d.School / the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Lakmaliâs research interests include topics in immigration, visa law and policy, border surveillance, human rights, and human dignity. She works across literature, film, oral history, law, and the digital humanities using cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methods. Lakmali is currently working on a book that explores the ways in which visa laws and policies impinge on the rights and dignities of applicants from the Global South by putting such laws in conversation with narratives from literature, film, and oral histories. An article based on this work is forthcoming in the double-blind peer-reviewed journal Law and Literature. |