Profile
Dr
Harshana Rambukwella recently completed his doctoral research
at the School of English, HKU on narratives of nationalism
in Sri Lanka and their representation in historical and literary
texts. Since the completion of his PhD Harshana has been involved
in building a database on Hong Kong English Literature and
has also taught at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. His
primary research interests are in postcolonial literatures
and theory, representations of nationalism in the South Asian
context and the role of historical narratives and historiography
in community identity.
Courses
taught in 2010-11:
ENGL2095
The East
ENGL6075 The Politics of
English
Publications
Refereed
Journal Articles
2006 (With E Y L Ho). "A question of belonging: Reading
Jean Arasanayagam through nationalist discourse." Journal
of Commonwealth Literature 40(2): 61-81
2007. "In search of the nation: When Memory Dies and
the [im]possibility of a national imaginary in postcolonial
Sri Lanka." The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities XXXIII (1 &2): 57-70
Book chapters
2010 (Forthcoming). "Sri Lankan English" In The
Routledge Handbook of World Englishes, edited by Andy
Kirkpatrick. London: Routledge
Co-authored with Dushyanthi Mendis
Encyclopaedia entries
2005. "Jean Arasanayagam." The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5902
"Jean Arasanayagam." The Blackwell Encyclopedia
of Twentieth-Century Fiction. (forthcoming, 2010)
"Yasmine Gooneratne." The Blackwell Encyclopedia
of Twentieth-Century Fiction. (forthcoming, 2010)
Miscellaneous
2005. "In search of theory." Article published in
The School of Criticism and Theory newsletter (Cornell University) InTheory. http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/sct/pdf/SCT_newsletter_2005.pdf
2001. Co-edited with Matthew Rotando. Slippage: A collection
of original Sri Lankan writing in English. Kandy, Sri
Lanka: Auspicious Feet.
