Professor Saliya Kularathne is attached to The Department of Sinhala, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He earned his BA (Hons.) in Sinhala from The University of Peradeniya in 1993 and M.Phil in Sinhala from The University of Peradeniya in 2002. Subsequently, he obtained his PhD from The University of Peradeniya in 2010.