Saambaviy Sivaji is a lecturer (probationary) attached to the Department of English Language Teaching, University of Colombo. She obtained her MA in Anglophone Literatures, Cultures, and Media from the Goethe University of Frankfurt, and her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in English, is from the University of Colombo. Her areas of research interest include Sociolinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Translanguaging, Memory Studies, Transcultural Literature, Diaspora Studies, and Translation and Interpretation.