Professor Sandagomi Coperahewa – Professor
Department Chair
Head – Department of Sinhala
BA (Colombo) MA (Lancaster) MPhil (Peradeniya) PhD (Cambridge)
Modern Sinhala Usage and Grammar, Sociolinguistics, Language and Communication
Senior Professor Ananda Tissa Kumara – Senior Professor
BA (Colombo) PhD (Colombo)
Classical Sinhala literature, Historical Grammar, Sinhala Folkloreiew
Professor Sarath Wijessoriya – Professor
BA (Colombo) MPhil (Colombo)
Modern Sinhala Literature, Sinhala Drama, Creative Writing
Ven. Professor Agalakada Sirisumana Thero – Professor
BA (Colombo) MPhil (Colombo)
Classical Sinhala literature, Sinhala culture
Dr. (Ms) Latha Gurusinghe – Senior Lecturer
BA (Colombo) MPhil (Colombo) PhD (Colombo)
Modern Sinhala Literature, Feminist literature and Gender Studies
Dr. Premasiri Nagasinghe – Senior Lecturer
BA (Colombo) MA (Kelaniya) MPhil (Colombo) PhD (Kelaniya) , Pg.Dip. Counselling (Colombo)
Sinhala culture, Classical Sinhala literature, Art & Architecture
Dr. (Ms.) Kumudu Karunaratne – Senior Lecturer
BA (Colombo) MA (Kelaniya) MPhil (Colombo) PhD (Sri Jayawardenenpura)
Modern Sinhala Literature, Sociology of Literature, Women’s Writing
Mr. Krishantha Fedricks – Senior Lecturer
BA (Colombo) MA (Kelaniya) MA (California)
Modern Linguistic Theories, Semiotics
Dr. (Ms) T. A. C. Jayanthi Bandara – Senior Lecturer
BA (Colombo), Dip in Journalism (Colombo), PG Dip in Archeology (Kelaniya), MA (By Research) (Colombo), PhD(Colombo)
Archaeology, Journalism, Art & Culture
Dr. Ranjith Senanayake – Senior Lecturer
BA (Ruhuna), PG Dip in Education (Colombo), MPhil (Peradeniya), PhD (Jayawardenapura)
Classical Sinhala literature; Sinhala Drama; Modern Sinhala Fiction
Mrs. W. M. Kalyani Wijesundera – Senior Lecturer
BA (Colombo), MA (Kelaniya)
Inscriptions of Ceylon, Classical Sinhala Literature
Dr. (Ms) W. A. D. Abeysinghe – Senior Lecturer
BA(Kelaniya), M.A(Kelaniya), M Phil(Colombo), Ph.D (Kelaniya)
Literature Criticism, Modern Sinhala Literature, Translation Literature.
Mr. Achinthya Bandara – Lecturer
BA (Hons.) Colombo/ La Trobe University, Australia (Exchange) MA (Texas, USA)
Contact Linguistics: Pidgins and Creoles, Indo-Portuguese Creoles, Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Post-Colonial Language and Cultural Identities, English as a Second Language, TESOL, Academic Writing, Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Mr. Osanda Gunarathne – Lecturer (Probationary)
BA (Hon.) MA (Colombo)
Modern Sinhala Drama, Classical and Modern Sinhala poetry , Modern Sinhala Literature , School Grammer