Conferences; Full paper peer reviewed

• Willarachchi, D. D. L., Jayasinghe, V. U., & Weeraratna, WMMMJ (2024). Emerging from Conflict: Portrayals of ‘Self’ in the Digital Life Narrativesof Sri Lankan Women Archived in I Am Sri Lanka. European Journal of Science, Innovation, and Technology, 4(5), 164-175.
• Willarachchi, D. D. L., (2023). Curatorial Footprint in Digital Archives of Life: Analysis of the life narratives of Sri Lankan women survivors of war archived in projects I Am and Herstories. GARI International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 9(4).
• Willarachchi, D. D. L., (2020). Exoticism, Postcolonial Exotic and Strategic Exoticism in Action: A Case Study of Videos Produced on Sri Lanka. In Proceedings: GARI Multidisciplinary Research Symposium 2020. Global Academic Research Institute. Global Academic Research Institute | GARI Conference
• Willarachchi, D. D. L., (2019). Narrating Selves: Articulations of Self in Digital Life Narratives of Sri Lankan Women Survivors of War. Ostrava Journal of English Philology, 11(1). Ostrava: University of Ostrava
• Maus: Narrating Life through archiving Autotopographical Objects
• DDL Willarachchi (2017) The Gaze, Image, and (Hi)stories: A critical review of the representation of the rape and murder of Vithya Sivaloganathan
• Willarachchi, DDL. (2015) Life Narratives of the Lankan Other: An Exploratory Study of the Jaffna Community in ‘Project I Am’, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2015- to be published

Abstract Peer Reviewed

• Willarachchi, D. D. L. (2022). Architecting the Nation from Ceylon to Sri Lanka, and the Role of the Evil Other. Proceedings of the 15^th International Research Conference of KDU, Sri Lanka. 18. 
• Willarachchi, D. D. L. (2021, December). The Identity of Sri Lankan Poetry: Postcolonial or Post-colonial? [Paper Presentation]. In Proceedings. GARI Winter Multidisciplinary Symposium (Sri Lanka), Colombo (p. 36). Global Academic Research Institute.  
• Willarachchi, DDL. (2016), Texting Lankan Style: Code-mixing and Code-switching among users of Sri Lankan English in Online Text Messages
• Willarachchi, DDL. (2015), Life Narratives of the Lankan Other: An Exploratory Study of the Jaffna Community in ‘Project I Am’, International Humanities Conference
• Willarachchi, DDL. (2015), Theravada Men and Women of Sri Lanka: A Scrutiny of Individual Identity Construction Under the Influence of Theravada Buddhism and Gender in Theravada Man, International Conference on the Humanities 2015
• Willarachchi, DDL. (2014), Journeying from Delight to Wisdom: A comparative analysis of the poetry of Matsuo Bashö and William Wordsworth, Annual Research Symposium

Presentations

• Willarachchi, DDL., (2015, May) Theravada Men and Women of Sri Lanka: A Scrutiny of Individual Identity Construction Under the Influence of Theravada Buddhism and Gender in Theravada Man, Paper presented at the International Conference on the Humanities 2015, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
• Willarachchi, DDL., (2015, August) Life Narratives of the Lankan Other: An Exploratory Study of the Jaffna Community in ‘Project I Am’. Paper presented at International Postgraduate Research Conference, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

Books

• Willarachchi, D. D. L., (2018). Bherunda. Colombo: Godage Publishers..

• Lecturer (Temporary), University of Kelaniya, 2014.
• Writer- Communication and Engagement, SriLankan Airlines, 2013.

Research Area

• Life writing, Postcolonial studies, Literary studies

Teaching Area

• English Literature and Language
• Critical theory
• Communication skills

• Winner of the Lakdasa Wikkramasingha Memorial Award for the Best Collection of Poetry (2018),  Godage National Literary Awards- 2019

Coordination

• Coordinator of the Pre-Sessional English Course for Academic Purposes for the Defence Services Command & Staff College: (Course No. 15) 2020
• Faculty Coordinator of FMSH at KDU IRC 2018
• Faculty Coordinator of English at FOE- 2020 & 2021
• Departmental Web Coordinator- 2015-2021
• Coordinator of the Trilingual Creative Writing Competition- 2020 & 2021

Editorial Assignments

• Editor (Language) of the KDU Newsletter 2020
• Co-Editor (Language) of the KDU Newsletter 2020
• Editorial Committee Member for KDU IRC 2021
• Editorial Committee Member for KDU IRC 2020
• Editorial Committee Member for KDU IRC 2019
• Editorial Committee Member for KDU IRC 2018
• Editorial Committee Member for KDU IRC 2017
• Editorial Committee Member for KDU IRC 2016
• Language Editor of UHKDU Corporate plan

Workshops

Resource person of the workshop “Creative Writing: A Lifeline” at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)- 10^th May 2024

Panelist at KELF 2024 (Kelaniya English Literary Festival) on Contemporary Sri Lankan Poetry- 12^th February 2024

Resource person at KELF 2024 creative writing workshop for school students and undergraduates- 12^th February 2024

Resource person at the 11th FMSH Knowledge Sharing Session titled “Life in a Lyric: Poetry as an Emotional Egress”- 26th March 2024

• Resource person at the workshop of “Editing and Proofreading Academic Documents”, Department of English, University of Kelaniya, February 2022
• Resource person at Short Course in English for Non-Academic Staff, SDC KDU- 2021
• Resource Person at Creative Writing Workshop for ELTU, University of Peradeniya- 2021
• Resource person at KELF 2019, Department of English, University of Kelaniya
• Resource person at KELF 2018, Department of English, University of Kelaniya
• Resource person at Creative Writing Workshop at Carmel Convent, Sri Lanka- 2018

Public Addresses

• Guest lecture on “Life Writing Research”, Department of English, University of Kelaniya, 2021
• Guest address on ‘Children of the World and English’ at the English Day of Holy Cross College, Gampaha- 2018
• Round Table Speaker on ‘Ragging in Universities and Higher Education Institutions: Is it an Obsolete Sub Culture?’ at the National law Students’ Conference- 2016