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Dr. Kanchuka Dharmasiri
Office address:
Department of Fine Arts,
University of Peradeniya,
Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka.
Phone: 0719575316
Biography
Kanchuka Dharmasiri is a theatre director, translator and comparatist.
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| Educational
Qualifications |
* BA (Peradeniya)
* MA (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
* PhD (University of Massachusetts Amherst) |
| Appointments (Selected) |
* Assistant Lecturer,
University of Peradeniya (2002-2004)
* Teaching Associate, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2007 - 2013)
* Lecturer, University of Peradeniya (2013 - Present)
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| Awards
& Recognitions
(selected) |
* College of Humanities
and Fine Arts Dissertation Fellowship,
University of Massachusetts Amherst 2010
* American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies Dissertation Planning Grant
2009
* Leigh Smith Memorial Prize for English 2002
* E.F.C. Ludowyke Memorial Prize 2002 |
| Conference
Presentations
(Selected) |
* "No Tickets: The Wayside
and Open Theatre’s Critique of the
Commercialization of Theatres and Public Spaces." American Comparative
Literature Association. 2012.
* "You Saw, I Saw: An Analysis of The Wayside and Open Theatre’s
Performances in Public Spaces." Spaces of Alterity Conference,
University of Nottingham. 2011.
* "Everything O You Can Sell: An Exploration of The Wayside and Open
Theatre’s Performances in Public Spaces." 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate
Conference, India- China Institute, the New School for Social Research,
New York. 2011.
* "Rolling in Money!": The Wayside and Open Theater’s Critique of
Neocolonial and State Power Structures through Language and
Performance." American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard,
Cambridge. 2009.
* "Taking to the Streets: Intersections of Space, Audience, and Power
in the Wayside and Open Theater in Sri Lanka." 30th Annual Mid-America
Theater Conference (MATC), Chicago. 2009.
* "In the Streets: Space, Power, and the Wayside and Open Theater in
Sri Lanka." Crossroads Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Amherst. 2008.
* "Chekhov’s Site of Paradise and Lawrence’s Dark Apathy: Accounts of
Sri Lanka by Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Literary
Figures." Southern comparative Literature Association, Chapel Hill.
2007.
* "Ionesco in Sinhala: A Critical Investigation of the Challenges and
Complications in Translating and Directing Tatta Gayikawa" Third Annual
Binghamton Amherst Translation Conference, State University of New York
Binghamton. 2007.
* "Translations in Sinhala Theater." Second Annual Translation
Conference, Kandy, Sri Lanka. 2006.
* "Creating Feminist Dialogues." Second Annual Binghamton Amherst
Translation Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst.
2006.
* "Translation and Sinhala Theater in a Postcolonial Context" First
Annual Binghamton Amherst Translation Conference, State University of
New York, Binghamton. 2005.
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| Research
Interests |
| * Theater, Performance
Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Translation
Studies, Early Buddhist Women’s Writing, Cultural Studies |
| Research
Publications
(Selected) |
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Streets Ahead with Haththotuwegama: A Collection of Articles by and
about Gamini Haththotuwegama. Assistant editors: Lohan Gunaweera
& Nicole Calandra. Ravaya Publishers: Maharagama, Sri Lanka 2012.
* "Translation and the Emergence of a Modern Sinhala Theatre in a
Postcolonial Context." The Mercurian: A Theatre Translation Review. Vol
2. No 4, University of North Carolina 2010. http://drama.unc.edu/files/2013/05/themercurianvol2number4.pdf
* "Taking to the Streets: Intersections of Space, Audience, and Power
in the Wayside and Open Theatre" Nethra Review. Vol 11. No 1.
International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2010.
http://www.ices.lk/publications/nethra_featured4.shtml
* "Space, Audience and Power in Wayside and Open Theatre Performances."
Talesabout Hatha: Gamini Haththotuwegama Felicitation Volume. Ed.
Athula Samarakoon & Sudesh Mantilleke. Arts Council, University of
Peradeniya 2010.
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| Other
Credentials |
* 2008 Panel Chair,
Crossroads Conference, University of Massachusetts
Amherst
* 2008 Panel Chair, Junior Year Writing Conference, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
* 2006 Co-Organizer, Second Annual Binghamton Amherst Translation
Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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