Dr. Jayasinghe is Assistant Professor of Anglophone and World Literatures at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, and was a Visiting Ph.D. Scholar at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) at Columbia University. More recently, she was a Postdoctoral Associate of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Unbordering Migration in the Americas” at the Humanities Center at University of Rochester. Dr. Jayasinghe’s research interests include topics in world literature and film, translation studies, immigration, border surveillance, and human rights, and she works across literature, film, law, and the digital humanities using cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methods. 

Prior to joining CCSU, Dr. Jayasinghe taught at Stanford University as a Lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) program, the Stanford Continuing Studies program, the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies program, the Stanford Language Center (French), and at the City College of New York. 

She has been teaching and mentoring both college and high school students since 2004, and her publications have appeared in several peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. Dr. Jayasinghe has won over twenty fellowships and awards for her research and teaching during the last few years, including the Stanford Historical Society’s 2021 Susan W. Schofield Oral History Award for Excellence in the Practice of Oral History.