Arththi Sathananthar is Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Leeds and gained her Associate Fellowship at the British Higher Education Academy. She is also editor of the Tamil Academic Journal. Her research is positioned at the intersection of life writing and postcolonial studies with a focus on diaspora, transculturalism, and home. Her work explores the socio-political dimensions of life narratives, in particular memoirs, and argues for this genre as an alternative form of historiography. Her work has appeared in the Journals of Women’s Writing, Intercultural Studies, and Algerian Journal of Research and Human Studies among others, as well as in several Routledge edited collections.

Participant in: August 2019 Fellowship: The Arts as a Tool for Peacebuilding