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Chitra promoted as Professor of English
Dr. Chitra Jayathilaka serving as a senior lecturer in English at the Department of English of the University of Jayewardenepura has been promoted as a Professor of English.
She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Keele, UK and has widely published in internationally reputed publications including Routledge.
She graduated with a class honours from the first batch of the then newly established English Department of the University of Jayewardenepura. Prof. Rajiva Wijesinghe along with Parvathi Nagasundaram established the English Department there, and they also admitted for the first time students without Advanced Level English to the English degree programme through a placement test in English to meet the dearth of English graduates. It has proved fruitful.