Dr. K. Shrikarunaakaran

University Education

• Ph.D in English Literature (2018) 
  The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Telangana.India.
  Doctoral Thesis title: Migration and Selfhood in the Select Fiction of Michael Ondaatje.
• MA in English Literature (2010) – (two year regular programme) 
  The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Telangana,India.
• BA (Hons) in English (2006) – Four year programme University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
• National Diploma in English (two years) Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technical Education (SLIATE), Sri Lanka.
• Senior Certificate Course in English (one year) 
  Vavuniya Campus, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
• Certificate Course in English (one year) 
  Affiliated University College, Vavuniya, Sri Lanka.
• BA (Hons) in English Dissertation title: An Analysis of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.

Professional Qualifications

• Teaching Methodology Course, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
• Short Course in Qualitative Research, Open University, Sri Lanka.

Academic Profession

• Senior Lecturer in English Gr.II 2018 to date
• Lecturer in English 2010 – 2018
• Assistant Lecturer in English (2007 -2008)

Level of Language Proficiency

• Tamil       GCE(Advanced Level)
• English    Post Graduate (PhD)
• French     As a subject for BA (Hons)
• Sinhala    Manageable Proficiency

Workshops participated

• Student Centered Learning (SCL) conducted by The British Council, Sri Lanka and University of Leicester, UK. 2019.
• Participated in Southern Epistemologies Workshop conducted together by Birmingham University, UK and EFLU, Hyderabad. 2018.
• Digital Reference Management Software for Research Scholars, conducted by Ramesh Mohan Library, EFL University, Hyderabad, India. 2017.
• Cognitive Poetics organized by Department of English Literature at EFL University, Hyderabad in 2014.
• Ten-day MOODLE Training workshop at CICT, EUSL 2011
• Write to Reconcile Workshop on Creative Writing organized by National Peace Council in Kandy and Batticaloa in 2014 - Week-long residential workshop
• Workshop on ELT jointly organized by English Language Teachers Association of India (ELTAI - Hyderabad Chapter), and G.Narayanamma Institute of Technology & Science, in Hyderabad 2017.
• Workshop for Researchers on Academic & Research Writing, and English Language Pedagogy, organized by English Language Teachers Interaction Forum (ELTIF), India, 2015.
• Workshop on Subject Benchmark Formulation organized by the UGC, Colombo.
• Workshop on English Medium Instruction – Whole Systems  Thinking and Action planning for the transition to English Medium Instruction 14-16 Oct. 2019, UGC, Colombo.
• Stakeholders’ meeting of the External Degree Programmes at Hotel Renuka,Kolpitiya, Colombo on 14 March 2014. Conducted by UGC.
• Workshop on the Current Economic Growth & Development at Central Bank, Colombo in 2012.
• Workshop on University Code and Ethics conducted by SDC, EUSL, 2013.
• Workshop on Literary Translation jointly organized by The Gratian Trust, Colombo and Sea Gull publishers, Calcutta.

Research Papers

• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘Edward Said’s Orientalism : Imaginative Geography -Orientalizing the Orient -A Response’. Neithal 7:1, ISSN 2012-6573 FAC, EUSL, 2014.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘The Place of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in Postcolonial Literature’. The English Research Express, IJELL - International Journal of English Language and Literature, Vol.2, Issue: 8, Pp.113 – 124. ISSN: 2321-1164.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘“Stifling Dust in the Air”: Glimpses of Personhood of an Egyptian Anti-Hero’. The Achievers Journal (Quarterly). Pp.18-30. ISSN (print) 2454-2296.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘The Question of Meaning: A Theoretical Deliberation on Reader-Response Perspectives’. Contemporary Discourse (Biannual). Vol.8 Issue 2. (2017) Pp.23-28. ISSN 0976-3686.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘Enduring Aristotle: A Prefatory Study on His Legacy of Ethics and Aesthetics.’ i-manager’s Journal of English Language Teaching (Quarterly), Vol.7. No.3 (July-September 2017). Pp.1-6. ISSN 2231-3338.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘“A Case for Fragmentation of the “Subject”: A Study on the Poststructuralist Turn”’. The Atlantic Critical Review (Quarterly). Vol.16. No.3. July-September 2017. pp.115-139. ISSN 0972-6373.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘The Least Privileged Place: A Reading of Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table’. Scholarcritic, Volume.02 Issue.02. Pp.27-39. ISSN.2348-6945.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘The Self across Time: A Historical Trajectory’. Langlit(Quarterly), Vol.3. Issue 1. ISSN 2349-5189.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘“Immoderate Desire”: Robinson Crusoe as an Allegory of Civilization of Man’. Research Scholar (Quarterly), Vol.5 Issue 1. ISSN 2320-6101.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘Identity Politics and the Empowerment of the Marginalised in the Post-Independent Indian Context’. Literary Herald, Vol.2. Issue 4. Pp.258-261. ISSN 2454-3365
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘Othering as Self-identity Construction: A Religious Context from India’. Langlit (Quarterly). Vol.3 Issue 4. ISSN 2349-5189
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘Self as a Construct in Select Fiction of Michael Ondaatje’. Global English-Oriented Research Journal (Quarterly). Vol.2 Issue 4. ISSN 2454-5511.

Creative Writing

• Shrikarunaakaran, Kandiah. ‘Ellaikal’, ‘Kuppy Lamps’, ‘Exodus’. Write To Reconcile II: An Anthology. Ed. Shyam Selvadurai. Colombo: National Peace Council. 2015. Page: 56-60. ISBN: 978-955-4787-01-8 (www.writetoreconcile.com).
• Citation in Routledge journal:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14688417.2016.1246197
• Catalogued in SAGE journal:Perera, Walter. ‘Sri Lanka’. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Volume: 51 issue: 4, 2016. Pp. 685-699.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989416672023

Paper Presentations &Publication of Abstracts

• Shrikarunaakaran, K. 'Narrating the Self in Michael Ondaatje’s Memoir Running in the Family.’ Abstracts of Papers presented at the International Conference. The English Language Teachers Interaction Forum (ELTIF), in Kannur, Kerala,2015.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘Migration and Selfhood in Ondaatje’s Memoir Running in the Family.’ Abstracts of Papers presented at the International Conference.Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (OUCIP), Hyderabad & Indian Society for Commonweal Studies (ISCS), OU, Hyderabad, 2015.
• Shrikarunaakaran, K. ‘Arundhati Roy’s Literary Polemic The God of Small Things: Representation of a Localised Communism’. Proceedings of Research Papers. ARS, FAC, EUSL, 2019.

• Postcolonial Literature in English /Diasporic Literature in English
• Narrative Theory
• Theories of Selfhood
• English Language Teaching

• Best Performance in English Literature 2003, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
• Best Performance in English Literature 2005, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Distinctions

• Distinction pass in Senior Certificate Course in English, Vavuniya Campus,University of Jaffna.

• Former Head / English Language Teaching Unit, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
• Former Acting Head / English Language Teaching Unit, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
• Former Acting Head / Department of English Language Teaching, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
• Activity Coordinator/Collaboration with State and Non-State Training Institutions, UDG/EDP Grant, Eastern University, Sri Lanka. 2013- 2014.
• Member, Research & Publications Committee, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
• Coordinator / Action Plan, Strategic Plan, FAC, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
• Student Counselor –Eastern University, Sri Lanka. 2011, 2012, 2020.

As Resource person in:

• Workshop on IELTS preparation for FAC academic Staff. Eastern University, Sri Lanka. 2020.
• English Language Training Workshop for Non-academic staff organized by SDC, Eastern University, Sri Lanka. Feb. 2020.