Draft:Deborah Ramkhelawan

• Comment: IMDb is not a reliable source, you could consider adding it as external links instead. Many of written references are either writing from the subject or passing mentions. Some references (ref10) made me download a whole PDF file just to miss even a single subject mention in there, that wasn't so polite. ANU^writes 05:38, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

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Deborah Faith Ramkhelawan

Deborah Faith Ramkhelawan

Deborah Faith Ramkhelawan is a Canadian screenwriter. She graduated from the University of Alberta in 2014 with her Combined Honours in English and Creative Writing, adapting Evelina by Frances Burney into a 150 page copyrighted screenplay now in the public domain.

Volunteer Work

She is known for her volunteer work and has served on a number of committees in the capacity of undergraduate and graduate student representative. These include:

• Arts Faculty Council, Student Representative
• Faculty of Arts Academic and Grade Appeals Committee
• McCalla Professorship Committee
• Faculty of Arts Research Committee
• English and Film Studies Department Council

She has been a Classroom Mentor with the Office of the Senate's U-School (2013-2015), an Open House Ambassador for the Office of the Registrar's Open House (2015), and sat on committee as the Arts judge for the first Canada Cyber STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) competition (2020).

Master of Arts

Ramkhelawan did her Master of Arts in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her copyrighted thesis on Mary Evelyn, daughter of John Evelyn, founding member of the Royal Society, is open access on ERA, the University's Education and Research Archive. Titled "This Elegant Science" it is a 110 page analysis of Mary Evelyn's 13 page poem, Mundus Muliebris written in 1690.

In her Masters thesis, Ramkhelawan utilizes the methodology of New Historicism and book history approaches such as those anthologized in David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery's The Book History Reader to create her masterwork.

Academic Awards List

She is known for deep academic excellence and scholastic distinction and has won scholarships including but not limited to the following:

• Alberta Jason Lang Scholarship (2010, 2013)
• T4K Thirst For Knowledge Academic Excellence Scholarship
• Oxford WRITE Book Prize
• Priscilla Hammond Memorial Scholarship in Honours English
• James Patrick Folinsbee Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing
• Darren Zenko Memorial Scholarship
• Sarah Nettie Christie Prize in English
• Rutherford Memorial Medal in English
• Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship
• Canada Graduate Scholarship Masters Level
• Queen Elizabeth II MA Graduate Scholarship (2014, 2015)
• Graduate Students Association Academic Travel Award
• Graduate Students Association Rising Star Award
• Sarah Nettie Christie Travel Grant
• James F. Forrest Graduate Prize in Renaissance Literature
• Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction
• Churchill Oxford Scholarship
• Women in the Humanities Scholarship at St. Hughs College
• Clarendon Scholarship

Oxford DPhil

Ramkhelawan at a 2017 interview with Oxford Digital Media.

The same year she defended her Master of Arts Ramkhelawan won a full Clarendon Scholarship (2016) for her DPhil in English Language and Literature at Oxford University. She served on the Clarendon Scholars Council as Diversity Secretary. She also helped to coordinate the 2017 Clarendon Ball in Blenheim Palace. Here, she was awarded scholarship to St. Hugh's College and is an alumna at St. Edmund Hall.

Music

Ramkhelawan plays the piano and writes original soundtrack. She conducted a Baroque counterpoint for her final project in a University of Alberta Music course as well as an original three movement composition titled "Cinderella" after Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force's 1698 Book of Fairy Tales (Les Contes de Contes) and the 2015 Disney movie live-action remake of Cinderella directed by Kenneth Branagh.

She also sketches as taught by her aunt A.S. Peace, and competes in athletic events including taekwondo and fencing under ten time Olympic Gold medalist Jujie Luan.