Amaya Kodituwakku

Biography

Amaya Kodituwakku is a MPhil student in the Department of English at Queen’s University. They hold a Honours BA in English Literature and Rhetoric (Legal Studies minor) from the University of Waterloo. Their research investigates the rhetorical strategies employed by anti-nationalist feminists protesting against state gender-based and sexual violence, particularly during civil wartime and unrest in Sri Lanka and North America. Outside of their graduate research, they are also a researcher affiliated with SIGNAL (Strategies for Intersectional Gender justice, Networked Action, and Liberation).

Research Interests

Transnational feminisms; Rhetorical theory; Women's civil war writing; feminist governance; South Asian literature; Feminist media and technology studies; Queer theory; migration and diaspora studies. 

Selected Publications

Kodituwakku, Amaya, and Andie Kaiser. “Solidarity as (Social Media) Method: The Four D’s of Feminist Media Disruption.” Solidarity as Method: Countering Networked Misogyny Through Collective Action, Lexington Books, Forthcoming 2026. In production. 

Wiens, Brianna, and Amaya Kodituwakku. “The Future of Digital Feminism: Surviving Surveillance, Misinformation, and Machine Learning Misogyny.” IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, Special Issue, Dec. 2025, pp. 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1109/TTS.2025.3615509.

Awards and Recognition

SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Master's (2026-2027)

Graduate Supervision

Angela Facundo, Juliane Okot Bitek