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Professor Dushyanthi Mendis

BIOGRAPHY

I am currently a Professor in English at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. I have a BA in English from the University of Peradeniya, an MA in Linguistics (TESOL) from Ohio University, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan. My research interests are the broad fields of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, academic English and Sri Lankan English(es). My favoured approaches to the study of language are genre analysis and corpus linguistics.

Teaching Areas

Poetry (1st year)

Sociolinguistics

Discourse Analysis

Language Policy and Planning

    Positions

    • To date2023

      Chairperson, Ethics Review Committee for Social Sciences and Humanities

      Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo

    • 20222022

      Chairperson, Ethics Review Committee for Social Sciences and Humanities

      Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo

    • 20222022

      Coordinator

      Accelerating Higher Education Development (AHEAD) Research Grant, Department of English

    • To date2021

      Member, Advisory Board, Sinhala Dictionary Compilation Office

      Sri Lanka

    • To date2020

      Member, Official Languages Commission

      Sri Lanka

    • 20182015

      Member, Academic Board, National Institute for Language Education and Training

      Sri Lanka

    • To date2013

      Professor, Department of English

    • 20112011

      Director of Studies, Faculty of Arts

    • 20102010

      Director of Studies, Faculty of Arts

    • 20082005

      Coordinator, IRQUE Institutional Block Grant 2

      Faculty of Arts