A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
International Conferences:
Akhter, Farzana. “Resisting the Politics of Representation: Women, War, and Bangladeshi War Movies,” January 7. 138th Modern Language Association Annual Convention (MLA). San Francisco, January 5-8, 2023.
Akhter, Farzana. “Bangladeshi War Movies and the Reclamation of Female Agency in Hangor Nodi Grenade and Guerrilla,” January 7. 137th Modern Language Association Annual Convention (MLA). Washington, January 6-9, 2022. Virtual presentation.
Akhter, Farzana. “Panacea for Nostalgia: The Paradox of Returning Home in Dreaming in Cuban and An American Brat,” January 9. 137th Modern Language Association Annual Convention (MLA). Washington, January 6-9, 2022. Virtual presentation.
Akhter, Farzana. “Representation of Birangonas in Bangladeshi Movies,” January 14. Association of Teachers of Literatures in English, Bangladesh (ATLEB), In Retrospect: 50 Years of Bangladesh in Literature and Culture, First International Conference, January 14-15, 2022. Virtual presentation.
Akhter, Farzana. “Immigrant Literature: A Mere Commodity for the Consumption of Cultural Fetishists or a Discourse of Resistance and Reformation?” 34th Annual MELUS conference. New Orleans, USA, April 2-5, 2020. Postponed to March 23-28, 2022.
Akhter, Farzana. “Writing Center in Bangladesh: Politics, Pitfalls, and Possibilities.” 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 25-28 March, 2020. Conference Cancelled.
Akhter, Farzana. "Toward a Sociopolitical Consciousness: Brecht’s Galileo and Mother Courage and their Role in Raising Resistance in Bangladesh.” 117th Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference. San Diego, CA , U.S.A., November 14-17, 2019.
Akhter, Farzana. “‘Unhoused’: Trans-Atlantic Journey and its Impact on Identity Formation in Meena Alexander’s Manhattan Music.” Recalibrating Diasporas: Asia Pacific and the Spaces Beyond Conference, organized by School of Arts, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, June 27-28, 2019.
Akhter, Farzana. “The Spectacular City: The Golden Cage Where Subjects Are Created and Power Is Negotiated.” South Central Modern Language Association. Dallas, TX. 3-5 Nov. 2016.
Akhter, Farzana. “Perceptions of Literacy: Teaching Composition as an International Teaching Assistant.” 2014 Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Gaylord National Resort, Washington, DC. November 20-25 2014.
Akhter, Farzana. Representations of the Veil: Between Vulnerability and Resilience. 129th MLA Convention. Chicago, IL. January 9-12, 2014. (Participated as Respondent).
Akhter, Farzana. “Negotiating the Politics of Power: Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim and Women’s Role in Nation Building.” 14th South Asian Literary Association Conference (SALA). Chicago, IL. January 8-9, 2014.
Akhter, Farzana.“Quest for Home in Amitav Ghosh’s the Glass Palace.” 22nd Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (BCPS). Savannah, GA. February 15-16, 2013.
Akhter, Farzana. Literature 7: African and African American. 33rd annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations conference (SWTX PCA/ACA). Albuquerque, NM. February 8–11, 2012 (Chaired).
Akhter, Farzana. “Reversal of Gender Identities in Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss.” 33rd annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations conference (SWTX PCA/ACA). Albuquerque, NM. February 8–11, 2012
Akhter, Farzana. “Performing Brecht in Bangladesh: Making the Unfamiliar Familiar.” 13th Symposium of the International Brecht Society on ‘Brecht in/and Asia”. Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, U.S.A. May 19-23, 2010.
National Conference:
Akhter, Farzana. “Shattering the Shackles: Brecht’s Plays and the Language of Political Protest in Bangladesh” 2nd International Conference on ‘Democracy, the “New World Order” and English Studies’. East West University, Dhaka. December 2008.
Seminar:
Akhter, Farzana. “Mr. Puntila and his Man Matti.” Seminar on Brecht. Goethe Institute, Dhaka. March 2007.
Akhter, Farzana. “Brecht’s Threepenny Opera and Janatar Rangashala.” Seminar. East West University, Dhaka. 2006.
Other Publications
Akhter, Farzana. “South Asian American Literature,” The Arkansas International, 2016. https://www.arkint.org/online-only/farzana-akhter-on-south-asian-american-lit?rq=farzana%20akhter. (Feature writing)
Akhter, Farzana. “Archie.” Comics through Time: A Historical Encyclopedia. Edited by M. Keith Booker, ABC CLIO: Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A., 2014.(Encyclopedic Reference)
Akhter, Farzana. Translated articles for Banglapedia, National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh 2003. (Translation)
Supervisor: Master Theses, Dept. English, East West University.
External Examiner
Invited Session Chair. Trauma and Representation, Bangladeshi English Novels: From Emergence to Efflorescence, the University of Salerno, Italy, 24-25 June 2021.
Invited Session Chair. History, Identity and Adaptation, Bangladeshi English Novels: From Emergence to Efflorescence, the University of Salerno, Italy, 24-25 June 2021.
Conference Co-chair of Organizing Committee. 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on the Social and Life Sciences Gender, Health, Information and Environment February 27-29, 2020.
Conference Chair. Transgressing/ Transcending Borders through Translation, 5th International Conference Department of English, East West University, Dhaka. January 2019.
Session Chair. Keynote Speech. “The Sociology of Poetry Translation.” Transgressing/ Transcending Borders through Translation. 5th International Conference Department of English, East West University, Dhaka. January 2019.
Moderator. Panel Discussion. Transgressing/ Transcending Borders through Translation, 5th International Conference Department of English, East West University, Dhaka. January 2019.
Respondent. Representations of the Veil: Between Vulnerability and Resilience. 129th MLA Convention. Chicago, IL., U.S.A., January 9-12, 2014.
Invited Session Chair. Literature 7: African and African American. 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations conference (SWTX PCA/ACA). Albuquerque, NM. U.S.A., February 8–11, 2012.