Sammani Perera
Instructor in English
Department: English
Email: sperera@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-5619
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Education
Miami University, OH, USA
M.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction), 2016
University of Kelaniya, Dalugama, Sri Lanka
B.A. in English (Honors), 2014
Employment History
Instructor, Department of English, Elon University, USA, 2020-
Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Miami University, USA, 2016-2020
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Miami University, USA, 2014-2016
Courses Taught
ENG 1100: Writing—Argument and Inquiry
ENG 1704: Travel, Literature, and New Media
ENG 255: Postcolonial Identities in Literature
Research
Photography, the photostory, creative nonfiction, social media writing, web writing, travel literature, US
national parks literature, literature of the Global South
Publications
Interview with VoyagePhoenix, April 2024
Interview with Shoutout Arizona, October 2023
“Rain or Shine,” Photo of the Day at Arizona Highways, October 2023
“Ashes and Fire,” Photo of the Day at Arizona Highways, September 2023
“Canvas,” PhotoPiller of the Day at PhotoPills, August 2023
Presentations
“Surging Sea,” Annual Writer’s Harvest, Miami University, OH, 2016
“A Trekker’s Tale,” Graduate Student Reading, Miami University, OH, 2015
“A Dumbshow,” Spring Street Reading Series, Miami University, OH, 2015
“They Lived along the Baseline Road,” MEGAA Conference, Miami University, OH, 2015
“PROGRESS,” Spring Street Reading Series, Miami University, OH, 2015
Service Activities
Faculty editor, Phoenix Rhetorix: Journal of Exemplary First-Year Writing, 2021-present
Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, 2016, Department of English,
Miami University, OH, USA