MsMesh Tennakoon

(She/Her)

Graduate Researcher

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

  • Graduate Researcher
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Mesh Tennakoon is a writer of short fiction and a Creative Writing PhD candidate. Her research focuses on the cross-cultural dialogue between Theravādin Buddhism and the work of Jacques Derrida and how this provides a context for creatively and critically responding to the concern: Learning to Live. Her creative work has been published in Meanjin, Going Down Swinging, Island Magazine and Scratchthat and Mesh's MA creative artefact was published in the Anthology of Deakin's 2024 Postgraduate Prize for Writing.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Graduate Researcher
    Deakin University, Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Sessional Tutor - Marking
    Deakin, Australia1 Aug 2025 - present

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Creative arts and writing

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Communication and Creative Arts