PhD in Interdisciplinary Arts
Ohio University, USA
2016
MA in Linguistics
Ohio University, USA
2012
BA (Hons) in English
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
2007
Ohio University, USA
2016
Ohio University, USA
2012
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
2007
Head-of-Department - Department of English, University of Peradeniya
July 2020 - To Present
Director, Extension Course in English for Professionals - Department of English, University of Peradeniya
2019 - To Present
Senior Lecturer in English - Department of English, University of Peradeniya
- To Present
Member of the Jury for the Gratiaen Prize 2021 - Gratiaen Trust
2021
Co-Editor, The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities (SLJH) - University of Peradeniya
May 2017 - April 2020
Coordinator - Internal Quality Assurance Unit, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya
2019 - September 2021
InterArts Excellence and Diversity Fellowship 2014-2015 - School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University
2015
Seigfred Award 2014-2015 (for outstanding performance in oral and written comprehensive examinations, coursework, and teaching) - School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University
2015
“‘So Black, So Beautiful’: The Western Idea of Race in Peter Brook’s Reconceptualization of the Mahabharata” in Phoenix: Sri Lanka Journal of English in the Commonwealth, Vol. 13 & 14, 2016-2017. Ed. S.W. Perera and Nihal Fernando. (Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies)
“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.” (Co-authored with Carmen Wickramagamage and Prasad Sethunga) Proceedings and Extended Abstracts of the Peradeniya University Research Sessions PURSE 2010 15 (2010): 841-843
ENG 3003 (ENG 303) - Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Peradeniya
2019 - To Present
ENG 2003 (ENG 203) - Varieties and Norms of English (English Across the World)
Department of English, University of Peradeniya
2017 - To Present
ENG 4001 (ENG 401) - Language, Culture, Thought, Ideology
Department of English, University of Peradeniya
2019
ENG 2001 (ENG 201) - The Structure of the English Language
2017
2021 - To Present
IART 1170 - Introduction to the Arts: Arts in Contexts
School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University, USA
Sep' 2012 - May 2016
IART 1180 - Introduction to the Arts: Objects and Events
School of Interdisciplinary Arts
Sep' 2012 - May 2016
LING 270 - The Nature of Language
Department of Linguistics, Ohio University, USA
Sep' 2010 - June 2012