Chelva Kanaganayakam has been cross appointed into the Department of Religion. Kanaganayakam, a scholar of post-colonial literature, is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Sri Lanka and his PhD in British Columbia. His current research areas are contemporary Indian literature and Southeast Asian writing. His publications include “Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction” (2002), and “Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz” (1997).
Department of English
Director, Centre for South Asian Studies
BA (Sri Lanka), PhD (British Columbia)
Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue,
tel: (416) 978-8250
email: ckanagan@chass.utoronto.ca
Area of Research
Contemporary Indian Literature; Southeast Asian Writing.
Selected publications
Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction (2002);
Ed. Lutesong and Lament: Tamil Writing from Sri Lanka (2001);
Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz (1997)