Chamini Kulathunga

Chamini Kulathunga is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature. She completed her BA in English (Hons) at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and her MFA at the University of Iowa. She was a summer visiting fellow at Cornell University’s South Asia Program in 2019. Before starting her doctoral studies at UMass-Amherst, she worked as an editor at Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation, The Song Bridge Project, and as Asymptote’s editor-at-large for Sri Lanka. She has also worked as a visiting lecturer at several Sri Lankan universities. Chamini’s primary research interests extend across ecocriticism, climate change, Buddhism and ecology, and environmental literature in South Asia along with a continuing interest in world literature and literary translation.