Biography
Ramathi's research interests lie at the intersection of early twentieth century British and Russian literature, war literature, and the medical humanities. Her dissertation focuses on representations of illness in British and Russian wartime literature, from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the interwar period. Her research on the relationship between depictions of illness in Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" and Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" has appeared in the Woolf Studies Annual (Vol 31). She has also been a writer for "Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal." Prior to coming to Columbia, Ramathi completed a BA at the University of Pennsylvania (2018), double majoring in Philosophy & Science and English, and an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science at The University of Cambridge (2019). From 2019-22, she worked as a policy researcher, focusing on ethics, AI, data protection, health policy, and misinformation, for LIRNEasia, a regional digital policy think tank based in her native Sri Lanka and working across the Asia-Pacific.
