PhD
University of Wisconsin
2004
MA
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2000
BA
University of Colombo
1994
University of Wisconsin
2004
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2000
University of Colombo
1994
Professor of Sinhala - University of Peradeniya
2014 - To Present
Visiting Lecturer - Postgraduate Institute of English. Open University, Sri Lanka
2014 - To Present
Visiting Lecturer - Postgraduate Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Peradeniya
2008 - To Present
Visiting Lecturer - FGS, University of Kelaniya
2010 - To Present
Reviewer for Program and Institutional Review - Quality Assurance Council, University Grant Commission
2014 - To Present
Sinhala Language Instructor - Intercollegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE ) Programme
2009 - To Present
Visiting Lecturer, International Folklore Workshop - Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
April 2015 - To Present
Chair of the Study Board in Language and Literature - Postgraduate Institute of the Humanities and the Social Science, University of Peradeniya
2014-2021
Visiting Fellow - University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2013
Visiting Lecturer - University of Colombo
2011-2012
Senior Visiting Fellow - Harvard University
January-April 2010
Visiting Lecturer (Translation Diploma Program) - National Language Training Institute, Ministry of National Languages and Social Integration
2009-2012
Lecturer - Cornell University, New York
2004-2008
Teaching Assistant to Prof. Uli Shamiloglu - UW-Madison
2004 Spring
Lecturer - UW-Madison
2003 Spring
Grader/Reader for Course on Religions of Asia - UW-Madison
2003 Spring
Grader/Reader for Course on Religions of Asia - UW-Madison
2002 Summer
Visiting Lecturer of Creative Writing - Audiovisual Media School of National Youth Council, Maharagama
1997-1998
Research Assistant to Prof. Shibua Toshio - Waco University, Japan
1996-1997
Assistant Lecturer - Department of Sinhala, University of Colombo
1995-1998
Editor - Yavvanaya Newspaper published by Ravaya Publishers
1995
Freelance and Staff Journalist - Ravaya Sinhala Newspaper
1994-1997
Research Assistant to Prof. Edirivira Saracchandra - Sarvodaya Research Institute
1993-1994
Editor - Ulpata Magazine, Sarvodaya Head Quarters
1990-1994
National Literary Award - Department of Cultural Affairs
2021
National Literary Award - Department of Cultural Affairs
2020
Godage Award for the best Collection of Short Stories - Godage & Sons
2018
Swarna Pustaka Award (Golden Book Award) - Publishers’ Association of Sri Lanka
2016
Swarna Pustaka Award (Golden Book Award) for the Best Novel the year - Publishers’ Association of Sri Lanka
2014
Bunka Cultural Award for Literature - The Japan Sri Lanka Friendship Cultural Fund
2013
Award for the best Collection of Short Stories - Vidyodaya
2013
Erasmus Mundus: One Month Fellowship at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain - European Union
2013
Fellowship of Senior Visiting Scholar - Harvard University
2010
Award for the Best Novel - National Literary Festival, Sri Lanka
2008
Tuition Fellowship - School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University
2005
Dissertation Fellowship - University of Wisconsin
2003
Award for Best Collection of Short Stories - National Literary Festival, Sri Lanka
2000
Fulbright Fellowship - Fulbright Commission
1998-2000
Best Translation, State Literary Festival - North Western Province-Sri Lanka
1997
Best Collection of Short Stories, State Literary Festival - North-Western Province-Sri Lanka
1995
Prof. M.B. Ariyapala Award “Most Competent Student of the Year” in Special Degree Program (Sinhala) - University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
1994
International Folklore Workshop
“Sri Lankan Folklore in the Context of a Large Subcontinent”
Bangla Academy, Dhaka
2014
International Folklore Workshop
“Critical Folklore Studies and Folk Criticism: Folklore as a Political Practice"
Bangla Academy, Dhaka
2014
South Asia Program, Cornell University
“Nativist Modernism: Literary Identities in Modern Sinhala Fiction”
Cornell University, USA
2006
Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference
“Karmic Realism: Buddhist Ways of Transcending Structural Limits of Literary Realism"
University of Michigan- Anne Arbor
2003
South Asia Conference at University of Wisconsin- Madison
“Poetics of Storytelling in Ummagga Jataka”
University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA
2002
Duwana Wattiya ha Hina wena Tikira - a collection of short stories, 2021
Gedarawata Sithiyama - a collection of stories, 2020
"A Story of a dreamy Sky" in World Literature Today (translated by Chamini Kulatunge), 2020
Ratu Iri Adina Ata - a novel, 2019
Alu Peheti Aranchi - a collection of short stories, 2017
Hamuweda Ape Wena Thata - a collection of poems, 2017
Ahambakara - a novel, 2015
Kurulu Hadawata (The Bird’s Heart) – a novel, 2013
Ara Mihiri Sinu Naadya (That Sweet Sound of the Bell) - a collection of Short stories, 2012
Ekamat eka Pita Rataka - a collection of poems, 2009
Atawaka Putthu - a novel, 2008
Vila Saha Mala - a collection of Sinhala short stories, 2003
Mama Den Nidami (Now, I Sleep) - a collection of Sinhala short stories, 1999
Muhude Giligiya Diana Kumariya - Sinhala adaptation of a South African Story for Children, 1998
Weeriyawanthayo (The Brave Ones)- a novel, 1995
Nandana Uyana (The Garden of Bliss) - a collection of short stories, 1994
Mahakanda Pamula (Under the Mountain) - a novel, 1992
Rala (The Wave) - a collection of short stories, 1992
Manawa Baktiya Ha Sittara (The Painter and Humanitarianism) - a collection of short stories, 1990
ENG 404 - Introduction to Sinhala and Tamil Literature
Department of English
To Present
SLS 410/SLS 3015 - Social and Cultural Studies of Literature
Department of Sinhala
To Present
SLS 405 - Western Theories of Aesthetics and Art
Department of Sinhala
To Present
SLS 404 - Comparative Literature
Department of Sinhala
To Present
SLS 307/SLS 3009 - Modern Western Literary Theory
Department of Sinhala
To Present
SLS 304/SLS 3007 - Western Literary Theory and Criticism
Department of Sinhala
To Present
SLS 310/SLS 312 - Translation Theory and Practice. Part 2
Department of Sinhala
To Present
SLS 210 - Translation Theory and Practice
Department of Sinhala
To Present
SLS 202/SLS 2002 - Modern Drama and Contemporary Sinhala Theatre
Department of Sinhala
To Present
FND 103/ESS 1002 - Academic Writing
Department of Sinhala
To Present
FND 114 - Law and Ethics
Department of Sinhala
To Present