Publications

  • Recent articles in refereed journals (international)

Perera, K. (2023). Narratives of privatization: Three stories of affect and position from public universities, Journal of Education Policy. 38:2, 193-211 (advanced online version published in 2021). DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2021.2004453

Perera, K. (2021). Interviewing academic elites: A discourse analysis of shifting power relations. Qualitative Researcher, 21(2), pp.215-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120924208 [article first published online on 9 June 2020].

Perera, K. (2020). The interview as an opportunity for participant reflexivity. Qualitative Research, 20(2), pp.143-159. [article first published online in February 2019] https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794119830539

Perera, K. & S. Makoni. (2019). The securitization of language education [Forum article]. Applied Linguistics, 40(5), 859-863. [Advance Access published on 31 August 2018] https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amy029

Perera, K. (2019). “Cracking a strange veiled code”: Language learning experiences in American memoirs of South Asia, Applied Linguistics, 40 (1), pp. 132–151, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amx013 [Advance Access published on 6 June 2017]

  • Articles in refereed journals (local)

Perera, K. (2021). “Marrying the monster”: World Bank loans and English language projects in Sri Lankan universities. University of Colombo Review (New Series III), 2 (1), 42 – 60.

L. Abesooriya and K. Perera. (2019). Directives in Sinhala: Children’s Speech and Adult Child Directed Speech. OUSL Journal, 14:1, 121-138

Perera, K. (2017-2018). The Sri Lankan undergraduate in the Sinhala press. Kalyani [Journal of University of Kelaniya], XXXII, 83-107.

  • Chapters in edited books
Perera, K.(2021). Kiwwalu: Quotatives expressing speech in Sinhala. In H. Rambukwella, K. Fedricks & P. Kariyawasam (Eds), Sahithya: Literary Journal 2020-2021 (pp.161-176). Colombo: Department of Cultural Affairs, Sri Lanka. 
ISBN 9786245726035

Perera, K. & S. Canagarajah. (2010). Globalization and English Teaching in Sri Lanka: Foreign Resources and Local Responses. In V. Vaish (Ed.) Globalization of Language and Culture in Asia, (pp.106-119). London: Continuum Press.

  • Recent published conference proceedings and conference papers
Perera, K. (2022). සිංහල සාක්ෂ්‍යතාව ගැන විධිමත් අධ්‍යයනයකට මූලික පියවරක්  [A preliminary attempt at mapping Sinhala evidentiality]  Proceedings of the Sinhala Studies Symposium 2021 (pp.161-173) Colombo: University of Colombo.

Perera, K. (2019). විද්‍යුත් මාධ්‍ය දේශපාලන කතිකාවල ප්‍රශ්න කිරීමේ කාර්ය [The use of questions in mediated political debates in Sinhala]. Proceedings of the Sinhala Studies Symposium 2018 (pp.257-265) Colombo: University of Colombo.

Perera, K. (2011) Sex in your tongue: Sexual Rights from a Language Perspective [Background paper] CREA. Count Me In! South Asia Conference for Women. 16-18 April, Kathmandu, Nepal.

  • Articles in non-refereed local and international journals

Perera, K. (2020, September). ලෝක බැංකු සල්ලි සහ අපේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාල: ලෝක බැංකුවේ ණය ව්‍යාපෘති සහ රාජ්‍ය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලවල මෑතකාලීන විපර්යාස​ය. [World Bank money and our universities: The World Bank’s loan projects and recent changes in state universities]. Pravada, 36, pp.53-75. Available at http://ssalanka.org/pravada-36/

Perera, K. (2006). Young, Lesbian, Activist? Or all? Women in Action. (1). 99-106.

Perera, K. (2001). Nationalism in Sri Lankan Poetry on War – The Combatants. Pravada, 7(3), pp 25-27.

  • Book review 

Perera, K. (2007). [Review of] Postcolonial Identity of Sri Lankan English. TESOL Quarterly, 41(4), 831-832.