Minoli Salgado

Professor Minoli Salgado is a Professor of International Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester Met), where she co-leads the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies (MAPS). Previously, she held a Professorship in English and co-directed the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on postcolonial literature, diasporic narratives, and the intersection of trauma, memory, and migration, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. She has authored award-winning critical and creative works, including Witness Literature (2025) and Twelve Cries from Home (2022). Salgado’s work is supported by prestigious fellowships like the Leverhulme and grants such as the AHRC. She has been honored with literary prizes and nominations, including the Orwell Prize and the DSC Prize.

Education:

• BA (Sussex)
• PGCE (Manchester)
• MA, PhD (Warwick)

Research Interests: Professor Salgado’s scholarship examines witness literature, silenced narratives from the Global South, and the mediation of time, place, and memory in diasporic contexts. Her theoretical frameworks include biopolitics, trauma studies, and post-structuralist migration analysis. She is committed to ethical storytelling and has developed training programs in Sri Lanka.

Awards and Recognition:

• Twice Leverhulme Research Fellow
• SI Leeds Literary Prize Winner
• Nominated for Orwell Prize, DSC Prize, and Republic of Consciousness Prize
• Olympic Poet for Sri Lanka (2012)

Grants and Advising: Recipient of AHRC Research Grant; advisor on ethical storytelling initiatives. Her creative and critical works bridge academic and literary spheres, influencing both scholarship and public discourse on postcolonial issues.

Labs/Teams: Co-leads the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies (MAPS) at Manchester Met.