Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe

Dr. Jayasinghe is Assistant Professor of Anglophone and World Literatures at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, and was a Visiting Ph.D. Scholar at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) at Columbia University. More recently, she was a Postdoctoral Associate of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Unbordering Migration in the Americas: Causes, Experiences, Identities” at the Humanities Center at University of Rochester. Dr. Jayasinghe’s research interests include topics in world literature and film, law and literature, translation studies, immigration, border surveillance, and human rights, and she works across literature, film, law, oral history, and the digital humanities using cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methods. Prior to joining CCSU, Dr. Jayasinghe taught at Stanford University as a Lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) program, the Stanford Continuing Studies program, the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies program, the Stanford Language Center (French), and at the City College of New York. She has been teaching and mentoring both college and high school students since 2004, and her publications have appeared in several double-blind peer-reviewed journals such as Law and Literature, Dibur, and Curated. 

Dr. Jayasinghe has won over twenty fellowships and awards for her research and teaching during the last few years, the most recent being the Stanford Historical Society’s “Susan W. Schofield Oral History Award for Excellence in the Practice of Oral History” for her oral history project “In Transit: An Oral History Project on Crossing Borders”. During four consecutive years, Dr. Jayasinghe won awards at the Annual Korean Literature Essay Competition (double-blind and peer reviewed) organized by the Korea Translation Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, she is the recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship, the Endeavor Award, the Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellowship awarded by the Stanford Humanities Center, and several fellowships and grants awarded by the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies, the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, the Stanford Europe Center, and the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA).