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".
[7] Much of her work has focused on cultural studies of postwar Sri Lanka from a perspective of feminism, justice, and the arts.
[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.