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Amaleena Damlé
Amaleena Damlé is assistant professor in French at Durham University (UK). Her research interests reside in questions of embodiment, affect, gender, sexuality and race in contemporary French and Francophone literature and philosophy. She is the author of The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), and has co-edited, with Gill Rye, three books on twenty-first-century women’s writing in French. Amaleena’s publications on Ananda Devi’s writing include ‘Phantasmal relics: Psychoanalytical and deconstructive ghosts in the literature of Ananda Devi’, in P. Collier, A. Elsner and O. Smith (eds), Anamnesia: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Culture (Lang, 2009), pp. 229–40; ‘Devenir-autre: Female corporeality and nomadic transformation in Ananda Devi’s writing’, in V. Bragard and S. Ravi (eds), Écritures mauriciennes au féminin: Penser l’altérité (L’Harmattan, 2011), pp. 151–77; and ‘Towards a poetics of reconciliation: Humans and animals in Ananda Devi’s writing’, The Postcolonial Human, International Journal of Francophone Studies 15:3&4 (2013), pp. 497–516. She is currently working on two research projects: a critical exploration of notions of wonder in contemporary philosophy and literature in French, and a comparative cross-cultural analysis of recent narratives of birth.