Lakmali Jayasinghe is a Writing Instructor with InGenius Prep and a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, currently completing her dissertation on a prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. She is also a Research Associate at the Poetic Media Lab at Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA).
With a 15-year teaching career, she has extensive experience educating and mentoring students of various age groups from diverse cultural, linguistic, and professional backgrounds. Her teaching experience includes Stanford University (Language Center and co-teaching interdisciplinary classes), the City College of New York, and international institutions. She has taught subjects ranging from English and French literature to linguistics, critical theory, and TOEFL preparatory courses. She also mentored international graduate students at Stanford through the Language and Orientation Tutoring Program (LOT).
Lakmali’s academic record is exceptional. She graduated at the top of her undergraduate class with First Class Honours, receiving prestigious awards like the Leigh Smith Memorial Prize. She completed her M.A. on a 2-year Fulbright Fellowship. She is a four-time recipient of the Stanford University Center for East Asia Studies Fellowship for research in Seoul, South Korea, and won first place two consecutive years in the Annual Korean Literature Essay Competition organized by the Korea Translation Institute and UC Berkeley (a Bay Area-wide competition).
Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a researcher and editor, serving as Managing Editor of Nethra Review and helping to found Verité Research, now Sri Lanka’s leading Think Tank.
