Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala
Instructor
Background
Lakshmi Damayanthi Bulathsinghala is an adjunct Assistant Professor who teaches for the Departments of Theatre; Asian and Asian American Studies; Music; and the program Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She received her PhD in the program in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture from 黑料视频. She also holds two MA degrees in theatre: one from her home country Sri Lanka (University of Kelaniya) and the other from 黑料视频; in both places she majored in directing. Her directing activities at Binghamton include Patrick Marber鈥檚 After Miss Julie and Lee Blessing鈥檚 Independence. Since 2013 she has developed and taught courses titled 鈥淒ances of South Asia,鈥 鈥淚ntroduction to Asian Theatre,鈥 鈥淒ance-Drama Styles in India,鈥 鈥淚ntroduction to Indian Vocal Music.鈥 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Lives in South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora,鈥 鈥淲omen in Film: World Cultures,鈥 鈥淚magining Women in South Asia鈥 and 鈥淪outh Asian Culture and Society鈥.
Lakshmi is a noted performing artist from Sri Lanka where she has been actively engaged as an actress in theatre, television and film. In 2006 Lakshmi directed, produced and starred in the celebrated play Bera Handa, adapted from Sophocles鈥檚 fragmentary play Iqneutae by the veteran Sri Lankan playwright, the late Mr. Bandhula Jayawardena. In 2018 she produced and starred in the new television drama series Sulaga Mahameraka, which aired on the Sri Lankan national network; she will be producing and starring in another television series in June 2020. Alongside her artistic and teaching careers she is an active researcher and has presented papers at conferences around the U.S.
Her first publication in Sri Lanka is a book of poetry, Viraha (2018), and she is currently under contract to publish two other books: a work of fiction, Amuththek Awidin (鈥淎 Stranger鈥檚 Arrival鈥), and an educational text titled Dakunu Asiyanu Natya Kalawa: Indiyanu Sampradaaya (鈥淪outh Asian Drama: The Indian Tradition鈥). She is currently in the process of submitting her first scholarly book proposal in the United States, partially based on her PhD dissertation and titled The Appropriation of Folk Style in Post-Independence Sri Lankan Drama.
Education
- PhD, MA, Graduate Certificate in Feminist Theory 鈥 黑料视频, State University of New York 鈥 U.S.
- MA, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
- BA, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Diploma in Writership and Communication 鈥 University of Sri Jayawardanepura, Sri Lanka
Research Interests
- Drama and Theatre in Asia
- Theatre Studies in Sri Lanka
- South Asian Culture and Society
- Women, Gender, and, Sexuality in South Asia