Graduate Mini-Conference – 2014
The inaugural Department of English Graduate Mini-Conference was held on the 26th of August 2014. The event featured paper presentations by the Department’s most recently graduated Honours (Special) Degree class based on their BA dissertation research. The event attracted a large number of current students and is expected to become an annual feature of the […]
Guest Lecture by Professor Joybrato Mukherjee
Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee held a lecture titled “English in Post-Postcolonial Sri Lanka: Looking at the Nation’s Link Language from Outside” on the 29th of August 2014 at the Department of English. In addition to being the President of Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany and Vice President of DAAD, Professor Mukherjee is also Co-Principal Investigator […]
Women Radicalism Politics
A seminar titled “Women Radicalism Politics” was held on 23rd April 2014 at the Department of English. The speakers were Prof. Rajeswari Mohan, Guest Lecturer from Haverford College, Prof. Neloufer de Mel, University of Colombo, and Dr. Shermal Wijewardene, University of Colombo. The titles of the talks were as follows: Narrating Women’s Subversive Bodily […]
Sri Lanka Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference – 2013
Final year Special Degree students of the Department of English volunteered at the 7th Sri Lanka Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference (2013) held in Colombo recently. They are seen with Professor Walter Perera, Conference Chair.
Award-winning writer Shyam Selvadurai introduced his new book
Shyam Selvadurai introduced his latest book The Hungry Ghosts on Friday 23rd August 2013 at 10am at the Department of English. SHYAM SELVADURAI is the acclaimed author of the best-selling novels Funny Boy, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens, which was shortlisted […]
Playwright Ernest MacIntyre at the Department of English
Ernest MacIntyre, an internationally acclaimed and well known Sri Lankan playwright, who has been active in the Sri Lankan English theatre for the last 50 years presented a talk on his work at the Department of English on 26 July 2013. His work has been performed in many countries including Australia and Sri Lanka. During […]
