About Praveen Tilakaratne

MICRO-BIO

  • My research focus is in coloniality/decoloniality (with emphasis on epistemology), race and sexuality, aesthetics, and Indian Ocean Studies.

EXPERIENCE

  • Cornell University
    • PhD Candidate
    • Comparative Literature
    • 2024 to Present

EDUCATION

  • Cornell University
    • PhD Candidate
    • January 2021 to Present

    Comparative Literature

DISCIPLINES

  • South Asian Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics, General

  • South Asian Studies

  • Cultural Studies/Critical Theory And Analysis

  • Comparative Literature

Interests

  • Psychoanalytic Theory

  • Indian Ocean

  • Sri Lanka

  • Decolonial Theory

  • Postcolonial Studies

Languages

  • Bengali

  • Sinhalese

  • English

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