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Dhavalasri Shelton Abeywickreme Gunaratne (Sinhala: ධවලෂ්රි ෂෙල්ටන් අබේවික්රම ගුණරත්න) is a professor of mass communications emeritus affiliated with Minnesota State University Moorhead. == Background == Gunaratne (1940-), a journalist turned mass communication scholar, was born in the village of Pathegama () in Weligama, Sri Lanka (). He is now a citizen of the United States. After completing his high school education at Carey College and Ananda College, he gained admission to the University of Ceylon in 1958. His teachers included H. A. de S. Gunasekera, (A. D. V. de S. Indraratne ), F. R. Jayasuriya, and A. J. Wilson. Soon after leaving the university in 1962, he joined the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. (Lake House), where he served as a journalist for five years. He left Ceylon in 1966 on a one-year fellowship offered by the (World Press Institute ) of Saint Paul, Minn. Gunaratne attended the University of Oregon, where he got his M.A. in journalism in 1968. The University of Minnesota awarded him a PhD in journalism and mass communication in 1972. Gunaratne has taught journalism in four countries: Australia, China, Malaysia, and the United States. Being an inveterate traveler, Gunaratne has devoted an entire volume of his autobiographical trilogy to his travels (). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「D. Shelton A. Gunaratne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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