Graduate Associate
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research Keywords:
Tamil Studies; translation
Research Region(s):
Sri Lanka
Research Diaspora(s):
Tamil Diaspora
Nedra Rodrigo (she/they) is the founder of the Tamil Studies Symposium at York University, and the bilingual event series, The Tam Fam Lit Jam. She is a translator, academic, curator of multi-arts events and a Member of the Board of Directors for the Tamil Community Centre Project in Scarborough, Ontario. Nedra’s published translations include In the Shadow of the Sword (SAGE Yoda 2020); His Sacred Army and A Time of Questions, Vols. 1 & 2 of the Devakanthan quintet Prison of Dreams (Mawenzi House 2021). Her essays have appeared in Briarpatch, C Magazine, Studies in Canadian Literature, river in an ocean, and Human Rights and the Arts: Essays on Global Asia. Her translations of poetry
have featured in Words and Worlds, Jaggery Lit, Still We Sing: Voices on Violence Against Women, Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia, and Out of Sri Lanka. Her translation of Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Prison of Dreams are forthcoming with Mawenzi House in 2024. She has conducted workshops in community capacity building, literature and archives as well as translation in schools, universities and community.