PhD
University of Hawaii at Manoa
May 1994
BA
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
1984
University of Hawaii at Manoa
May 1994
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
1984
Senior Professor - Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
2017 - To Present
Chair (Committee to Monitor Sexual Harassment and Violence) - University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
2018 - To Present
Chairperson of Panel of Judges - Gratiaen Literary Awards for the Best Sri Lankan
2018
Head - Department of English, University of Peradeniya
2017
Editor - The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, published by the University of Peradeniya
2012 - 2014
Coordinator - Postgraduate Programmes of the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya,
2009 - 2014
Chair & Member of Panel of Judges - Translations into English, State Literary Awards, Sponsored by the Government of Sri Lanka
2010 - 2013
Editor - University Calendar (University of Peradeniya)
2002 - 2013
Chair - Conference Organizing Committee, International Conference on the Social Sciences and the Humanities [ICSSH 2011]
December 2011
Head - Department of English, University of Peradeniya
January 2008 - July 31 2009
Senior Lecturer - Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
May 1994 - August 2009
Head - Department of English, University of Peradeniya
July 2004 - August 2006
Joint Coordinator - Postgraduate Diploma in Translation and Member, Committee on Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya
2003 - 2006
Treasurer - Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (SLACLALS)
2003 - 2006
Chief Editor - Gratiaen Trust sponsored Transltion Project to bring out two volumes of Sinhala and Tamil short stories in Translation
2005
Chair - Panel of Judges for the HAI Goonetileke Prize for Translation (sponsored by the Gratiaen Trust)
2003 - 2004
Secretary - Alumni Association of the University of Peradeniya (AAUP)
2000 - 2001
Co-editor - Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Hawaii
January 1994 - May 1994
Graduate Assistant - Department of English, University of Hawaii
August 1993 - December 1993
Graduate Assistant - Department of English, University of Hawaii
August 1991 - May 1992
Degree Associate - East-West Center
August 1987 - August 1991
Warden - University Students‘ Residential Halls, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
1996 - 1997
Probationary Lecturer - Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
January 1985 - July 1987
Life Member - Alumni Association of the University of Peradeniya (AAUP)
Life Member - Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS)
Life Member - Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (SLACLALS)
Life Member - Sri Lanka Federation of University Women (SLFUW)
Martha Farrell Memorial Fellowship - [ACU Titular Fellowships], Awarded by the Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK, 2017
State Literary Award 2012 for Best Translation into English from Sinhala in the Creative Writing Category - Translation into English as Metta: A Story about Love, of the Sinhala novel Podu Purushaya by Sunethra Rajakarunanayake, Colombo: Three Wheeler Press, 2011.
Fellowship [one month] - under Erasmus Mundus Action II-Experts II [A Staff Exchange Programme funded by EU], to Universidad Santiago de Compostella, Spain, March/April 2013].
Fellowship - O‘Donnell Visiting Educator, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA, June 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.
Fellowship - Advanced Research and Lecturing Awards, Fulbright Hayes Foundation, USA, August 2006-May 2007.
Fellowship (South Asia Region) - Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, 2005.
A Fellowship for Female Doctoral Students - The Asia-Pacific Region from the American Association of University Women, Honolulu Branch, Fall 1993.
An International Fellowship for Doctoral Studies - The American Association of University Women (AAUW) for 1992-1993.
An Award from the Graduate Student Organization - University of Hawaii for "Outstanding Achievement as a Graduate Student Researcher, 1991-92."
An East-West Center Award - Graduate Studies at UH, 1987-1991.
A Fellowship from the British Council in Sri Lanka - to take part in the Scottish Universities' Summer Exchange Program held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from July to August 1987.
Petta Library Prize for English - for Best Performance in English at General Arts Qualifying Exam, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, 1980/81
Wickramagamage, Carmen S. (2014) Violence against Women: Exception or the Norm? Perspectives from Sri Lanka,‖ Perspectivas transculturales/Violence against Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Ed. Rita Radl Philipp and Conceiçao Fonseca-Silva, Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Wickramagamage, Carmen S. (1996) "The Empire Writes Back: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine as Post-Colonial Feminist Text." Constructions and Confrontations: Changing Representations of Women and Feminism in East and West. vol. 13 of Literary Studies East and West. Ed. Cristina Bacchilega and Cornelia Moore. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii
Wickramagamage, Carmen S. (2016 & 2017) Leonard Woolf‘s The Village in the Jungle and A.P. Gunarathne‘s Beddegama: Which the Original and Which the Translation?‖ by Phoenix: Journal of the Sri Lanka Assocation of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies,‖ Ed. S.W. Perera & Nihal Fernando, Vol. XIII & XIV, 11-24.
Wickramagamage, Carmen S, P Sethunga & M Kalugampitiya. (2010) The Pursuit of Equity and Excellence in English through English Medium/Bilingual Education in the Sri Lankan Education System: Effective Strategy to Meet Desired End?‖ Proceedings of the Peradeniya University Research Sessions (iPURSE), 16th December 2010. Volume 15 – Part II. University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. 84-1843.
8th SLACLALS Conference
Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle and A.P. Gunarathne's Beddegama: Which the Original and Which the Translation? A Translocal World? Exploring the Postcolonial Today, 29th - 30th October 2016, Organized by the Sri Lanka Assocation for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Tr. The VIIIth Conference of Formation Education, Gender and Equality. Multiple Forms of Violence against the Women. Diverse Appearances
Armed Conflict and Gender-Based Violence: the Case of Sri Lanka,‖ VIII Journadas De Formacion Educacion, Genero E Iqualdad: Formas multiples de violencia contra las mujeres. Aspectos diversos” , Organized by Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigacions Feministas e de Estudos do Xenero [CIFEX], University of Santiago de Compostela [USC], Spain, April 12, 2013.
International Conference on ―Gender Equity and Exclusion in South and Central Asia: Emerging Challenges
Women, Armed Conflict and Gender-Based Violence: Reflections on Feminist Praxis in Post-War Sri Lanka,17th –18th October, 2011, Organised by Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit & Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi and IWID.
8th Media Summit
Reproducing the Conditions of Production? The Fourth Estate and Conflict in the Case of Sri Lanka,‖, November 24th and 25th, 2011, Oganized by Friedrick Ebert Stiftung Foundation and International Convention Centre, Goa, India.
Peradeniya University Research Sessions [PURSE]
The Pursuit of Equity and Excellence in English Education through English Medium/Bilingual Education in the Sri Lankan Education System: Effective Strategy to Meet Desired End?‖ , With Prasad Sethunga and Maduranga Kalugampitiya, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, December 16, 2010.
Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies [SLACLALS]
From Kaduwa to Manne? Thoughts on Recent Official Measures to Re-invent the Status of English in Sri Lanka,‖ Royal Mall Auditorium, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, October 25, 2010
Fourth International ASAA Conference
The Sense of Place in the Search for Home in Chandani Lokuge‘s If the Moon Smiled and Turtle’s Nest.‖ ,Australasia-Asia: Change, Conflict and Convergence.‖ Hotel Suisse, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2nd to 5th December, 2008.
Conference organized by the British Council, Towards the 21st Century: Cross-Cultural Identities in Contemporary Sri Lankan and British Writing,‖
'Fish Without a Bicycle'?: Annalukshmi‘s Choice in Selvadurai's Cinnamon Gardens.” 29 March-1 April 2000, British Council Auditorium, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Seventh National Convention on Women‘s Studies
'Her Body, Her Right'?: Interrogating the Discourse on Abortion Rights in Sri Lanka.‖ 23-26 March 2000, CENWOR Auditorium, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sixth National Convention for Women‘s Studies organized by CENWOR
What the Sri Lankan Organizations for Women Do: A Crtical Appraisal.‖ (Colombo, Sri Lanka), 19-21 March 1998.
Conference on ―Women in Politics‖ organized by ICES
Women‘s Politics vs. Women in Politics: Investigating the Role of NGOs for Women.‖ (Kandy, Sri Lanka), 10-11 February, 1996
Regional Conference on American Literature
`Whose Story Is It Anyway?‘: The Ethnic Woman Writer and Ethno-Cultural Politics in the U.S.‖, Quetta, Pakistan), 25-28 September, 1995.
Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for South Asian Studies
"The 'Women' of Sigiriya: Some Notes towards a History of Male Specularity in Sri Lanka." (University of Hawaii, USA), 5-7 March 1992.
Conference on Asian American Literature titled Asian American Cultural Transformations: A Literature of One's Own.
"Re-location as Positive Act: the Immigrant Experience in Bharati Mukherjee's Novels." Presented at a (UC Santa Barbara, USA) 26-28 April, 1991.
Presented at the Annual Graduate Students
"Reluctant Concessions: the Representation of Indian Women in R.K. Narayan's Novels." The School for Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies (University of Hawaii, USA), 14-15 April, 1989.
Is Abortion a Woman‘s Right?‖ Two Lectures for Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science Students on 03 March and 15 March 2000, at the EOE Pereira and Upper Physics Lecture Theatres, University of Peradeniya.
Lecture on ―Violence Against Women in Sri Lanka‖ to Faculty of Arts Students at the Arts Theatre, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, on March 17, 1999.
Two lectures [in Sinhala] on the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to local government officials, politicians, and NGO workers in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on September 17 and 26, 1996, at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya
Feminism: Its Philosophy and Politics" [in Sinhala], Organized by the Institute for International Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 8 July 1995.
Panel Discussions on "Sexual Harassment" and "Women in Foreign Employment in Sri Lanka‖ on Radio [in Sinhala], the Hill Country Service, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 21 June and 5 July 1995.