Workshop on Poetry Writing – 27th June 2017
Dr. Vivimarie VanderPoorten, Senior Lecturer in English Language, Literature and Linguistics at the Open University of Sri Lanka, conducted a session on poetry writing for students of the Department of English in the following two courses: “Rhetoric and Style and Contemporary Sri Lankan Writing in English: Thematic Approaches” on 27th June 2017. Dr. VanderPoorten’s first […]
Lecture by Savithri Rodrigo – 16th June 2017
Savithri Rodrigo, award winning Media Person, Interviewer, Writer, Moderator and Communications Consultant, delivered a guest lecture titled “Women in the Workplace: Progressive or Regressive?” at the Department of English on 16th June 2017. Many students attended.
Lecture by Prof. Stefan Horlacher – 29th March 2017
Prof. Stefan Horlacher, Chair of English Literature at the Technical University, Dresden, Germany, conducted a lecture titled “What Makes a Man a Man? Masculinity studies in Germany and Beyond: New Perspectives and Alternatives” on 29th March 2017 at the Department of English. His lecture explored developments in the field of Masculinity Studies combined with Transgender […]
Fairway Galle Literary Festival: North-South University Collaboration
Eight first-year students of the Department of English and one staff member took part in the 2017 Fairway Galle Literary Festival 11th – 15th Jan. 2017. They participated as part of the North South University Collaboration along with students and lecturers from five other universities across the country. The event offered a unique learning experience […]
Lecture by Dinidu Karunanayake
Dinidu Karunanayake, graduate of the University of Colombo and currently PhD student of Miami University, Ohio, USA, conducted a lecture titled “Postmemory and Love Marriage – Refiguring the archive in Sri Lankan diasporic fiction“. The lecture took place on 16th November 2016 at the Department of English.
Talk by Lal Medawattegedara
Gratiaen Prize winner Lal Medawattegedara delivered a guest lecture on 30th June 2016 at 12pm at the Department of English during which he focused on his novel, Playing Pillow Politics at MGK. His talk drew on themes present in the novel, as well as on the process of imagining and writing the novel itself.
‘Superman’ – A play by undergraduates
The play Superman was written, directed, and staged by second and first year students of the Department of English in February 2016 at the Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo.
Talk by Dr. Minoli Salgado
Academic of the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, and Author, Dr. Minoli Salgado, gave a talk titled “South Asian and Migrant Writing” on 20th January 2016 at the Department of English. Following the talk, she was interviewed by faculty member Thakshala Tissera.
Creative Writing Workshop by Nayomi Munaweera
The Department of English hosted a creative writing workshop by Nayomi Munaweera, author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors (2012) which was awarded the Commonwealth regional prize for Asia on 12th December 2014. The workshop was open for both undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Colombo. “At university, we pay attention primarily […]
Guest Lecture by John Swales, Professor Emeritus of the University of Michigan, USA
John Swales, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, conducted a lecture titled “Citational Practice: From Parenthetical Plonking to Intertextual Storytelling” at the invitation of the Department of English on the 29th of October, 2014. Prof. Swales was Director of the University of Michigan’s English Language Institute from 1987 […]
