Contact

University of Duisburg-Essen
Department of Anglophone Studies
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Germany

Room: R11 R04 D15

Office Hour (SS2012): Thursdays 15 - 16 hours

E-mail: sandarenu.kumarasamy [at] uni-due.de

Phone: +49 (0)201 183-2341

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

 

 
University

April 2008 - current

October 2007

 

PhD candidate on Sri Lankan English (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raymond Hickey)

M.A. Degree with two majors:


"Anglistik"  (1,0)
"Praktische Sozialwissenschaft" (1,6) , University of Duisburg-Essen

Special focus: Linguistics, Sociology, Political Science and Empirical Research Methods


Thesis: "Understanding Language Policy and Planning in Sri Lanka (Ceylon)" (1,0)

Primary Education
1985-1990

Sujatha Girls' School (Matara, Sri Lanka)
Vishaka Girls' School (Bandarawella, Sri Lanka)

Secondary Education
1991-1998

Following an excellent pass at the all-island Scholarship Exam in the 5th standard admission into Devi Balika Girls' High School (Colombo, Sri Lanka).

General Certificate of Education for Advanced Level (GCE A/L) in the subjects: English Literature, French, Political Science and Logic/1998.

 

Migration to Germany in Nov. 1999

 

Higher Education

German Language Skills
SS00-WS00/01

College
WS01/02-SS02

 

"Grundstufe" I & II, "Mittelstufe" I, University of Duisburg-Essen

Studienkolleg, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster
in the subjects: German Language and Literature, English, Social Science, and Statistics ("Feststellungsprüfung" - 2,2)

University
WS02/03-SS07

University of Duisburg-Essen

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

Research Assistant and Lecturer
April 2008 - current

Humanities, Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen

Student Assistant

Last working contract in April 2007, Humanities, Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen

Internships

Asienhaus Essen, Burma. Initiative, Bullmannaue 11, 45327 Essen [Aug-Sep 2004]
Special focus: Magazine lay outing and skills in library maintenance

Social Scientists' Association, No 12, Sulaiman Terrace, Off Jawatta Road,
Colombo 05, Sri Lanka [Sep 06]
Special focus: Colonial and post-colonial [communal] government policy

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English & Sinhala  - First Languages
German - Spoken and written good
French - GCE Advanced Level Standard
Tamil - 3rd Standard

Research Interests

 

  • General linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Contact Linguistics
  • Applied Linguistics - Language Policy and Planning
  • Varieties of English - Special Focus: World Englishes > Asian Englishes > Sri Lankan English

 

       The working title of the PhD Dissertation:

    Englishes in Sri Lanka: a socioloinguistic history

 

Research Projects and Workshops

"Cultural Landscapes: Negotiating Cultural Encounters with the English Speaking World". Erasmus IP Summer School Glasgow, 6-17th of August 2012 [University Coordinator] For further details see: www.anglistika.net/summer-school

"Evolution of Semantic Systems". Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [Consortium Member for Sinhala] For further details see : www.mpi.nl/eoss

"The Linguistis Roundtable on Sri Lankan English". University of Duisburg - Essen, Germany on the 16th of November, 2011. [Event Organizer] For further details see: http://tiny.cc/p3h5s

Contributions

 

  • "The historical contexts to Sri Lankan English". "The Linguists' Roundtable on Sri Lankan English". University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany on the 16th of November, 2011. [Talk]
  • "Sri Lankan English: morpho-syntactic patterns of bilinguals in a linguistic area". "International  Symposium on Bilingualism 8". Oslo, Norway from the 15th -18th of June, 2011. [Poster]
  • "Englishes in Sri Lanka: mapping contact-induced syntactic variations". Rethinking Contact Induced Change". University of Leiden, The Netherlands from the 09th-11th of June, 2011. [Poster and introduction to the topic during a plenery session]
  • "Englishes in Sri Lanka: phonological properties of a contact-induced second language variety". "LOT Winter School". University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands from the 10th-14th of January, 2011. [Poster and Talk]
  • "Sri Lankan English: Mapping speech variation in a "Linguistic Area""."Sociophonetics:at the crossroads of speech variation,processing and communication".Scoula Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy from the 14-15th of December, 2010. [Poster]
  • "Workshop: Sri Lankan Malay". The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany on the 10th of November, 2010.
  • "Sri Lankan English: Mapping Phonological Variation in a Multilingual Construct". "The Sixth International Sri Lanka English Teachers Association Conference". The BMICH in Colombo, Sri Lanka from the 15th -17th of October, 2010. [Accepted Paper]
  • "Sri Lankan English: Mapping Phonological Variation in a Multilingual Construct"."Multilingual Individuals & Multilingual Societies". University of Hamburg, Germany from the 6th-8th of October, 2010. [Poster]
  • "Language Attitudes, Use and Shift Patterns in Sri Lanka". "Sinhala Studies Seminar - 2" University of Colombo, Sri Lanka on the 22nd of September, 2009. [Talk]

 

Courses this Semester (SS2012)

  •  Introduction to English Linguistics X 2
  •  A Baby of Multiple Tongues: Introduction to Contact Languages

 

Courses taught

01. Introduction to English Linguistics

02. Introduction to Language Policy and Planning (SS2008)

03. Introduction to Field Linguistics (WS08/09)

04. Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (SS 2009)

05. World Englishes - Key Topics (WS09/10)

06. World Englishes - Current Debates (WS09/10)

07. Contemplaiting English Diacronically - A History of English (SS2010)

08. A Linguist Joins the Jane Austin Book Club - Sociolinguistic Readings into 19th Century

    Creative Writing (SS2010)

09. For Ivory and Tea with English! - The Linguistic Foundations of Colonial Englishes (SS2010)

10. Collided to be Diverse - An Introduction to Language Contact & Change (WS10/11)

11. History of English - An Introduction (SS2011)

12. Englishes in the British Raj (WS11/12)