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 […]
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 […]
