Dr.Dhanuka Bandara
Dr.Dhanuka Bandara Senior Lecturer (Gr. II) in English Literature
BA English Honours, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2013)
MA in English, Miami University, USA (2018) PhD in English, Miami University, USA (2022) Email: dhanukabndr@gmail.com Telephone: 0212218162 (Office)Literary modernism
Postcolonial Literature
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
Bandara, Dhanuka. “The Ritual Sacrifice of Richard de Zoysa”; ‘Not really one of us, hence one of them.” Polity, SSA, https://polity.lk/the-ritual-sacrifice-of-richard-de-zoysa-not-really-one-of-us-hence-one-of-them-dhanuka-bandara/. Accessed May 10, 2025.
Bandara, Dhanuka. “Where does Ravana fit in Sri Lanka’s Imagined Past?” Himal Southasian, https://www.himalmag.com/culture/ravan-sri-lanka-sinhala-buddhist-appropriation-mythology-early- history-sunela-jayewardene. Accessed May 10, 2025.
Bandara, Dhanuka. “State Patronage and Geopolitics are Strange Bedfellows for Sri Lanka’s Literary and Art Festivals.” Himal Southasian, https://www.himalmag.com/culture/galle-literary-festival-marata-arts-culture-geopolitics-ranil-wickremesinghe-economic-crisis-sri-lanka. Accessed July 19, 2024.
Bandara, Dhanuka. “The Limited Genius of Geoffrey Bawa.” Himal Southasian, https://www.himalmag.com/geoffrey-bawa-archives-architecture-nation-building-sri-lanka/. Accessed November 27, 2023.
Bandara, Dhanuka. “Martin Wickramasinghe: Multiculturalist or Sinhala Buddhist Nationalist,” Sahityaya, edited by Krishantha Fedricks & Kaushalya Perera, Department of Cultural Affairs, 2023, pp. 39-50.
Bandara, Dhanuka. “How agrarian utopianism shapes Sri Lanka.” Himal Southasian, https://www.himalmag.com/agrarian-utopianism-wickramasinghe-coomaraswamy-peoples-struggle-sri-lanka/. Accessed November 27, 2023.
Bandara, Dhanuka. “Post-Structuralism and Eastern Epistemology: Concordance in Discordance,” The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, Carmen Wickramagamage (editor), Volume 40, University of Peradeniya, 2015.• Bandara, Dhanuka. “Parricidal Joyce: Filial Rebellion and Liminality in James Joyce’s Fiction,” Phoenix, Walter Perera (editor), Volume 12, Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 2015.
Bandara, Dhanuka “Non-Duality in D.H. Lawrence’s Fiction,” Proceedings: Peradeniya University International Research Sessions. Liyanage Amarakeerthi (co-editor), Volume 18, University of Peradeniya, 2014.
Co-author, The Pen of Granite: A Richard de Zoysa 25th Year Memorial, Paw Print Publishing, 2015.
Fourth
Year fellowship (Fall semester 2021, Miami University)
Leigh
Smith Memorial Prize for the best results in English literature, University of Peradeniya
(2013)
E.F.C.
Ludowyk Memorial Prize for the highest mark in the Shakespeare paper,
University of
Peradeniya (2013)
E.F.C.
Ludowyk Challenge Cup for the Best Actor at the Inter Faculty Drama competition organized
by the Ceylon Dramatic Society, University of Peradeniya (2010)
Senior
Lecturer Grade II, Department of Linguistics and English, University of Jaffna (current)
Temporary
Senior Lecturer, Department of English University of Peradeniya (2023-2025)
Visiting
Lecturer, Postgraduate Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, University
of Peradeniya (2023-2025)
Visiting
Lecturer, Department of English and Linguistics, University of Sri
Jayewardenepura (2024)
Visiting
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Peradeniya (2015)
Temporary
Assistant Lecturer, Department of English, University of Peradeniya
(2013-2014)
Committee
Member, Committee for Disability Access and Inclusion, University of
Jaffna.
Editorial
assistance, The Sri Lanka Journal of South Asian Studies.
Theatrical
work
“The
Commode” (2010)
“Parallel
Stage I” (2014)
“Parallel
Stage II” (2025)