A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
PhD (Thesis submitted and defense presentation accomplished), Cultural Studies Programme, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University
MA in English Literature (Jahangirnagar University)
BA (Hons) in English (Jahangirnagar University)
I write plays, poems and songs. Some of my plays are There Is Not Then What Is Nor What Is Not, N, The Sixth Sense, and Chhayachhobi (The Motion Picture).
From 2016 to present: Senior Lecturer, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka-1212.
From 2013 to 2016: Lecturer, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka-1212.
OTHER MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES (2014-till date)
Editor, EWU Newsletter (2021-till date).
Member, Question Moderation Committee (Literature) (2017-till date).
Member, OBE-based curriculum (for BNQF) for the Department of English, East West University (EWU) (2022-till date).
Member, MA Admission Test Committee (viva voce) at EWU (2022-till date).
Member, sub-committee for printing and publication of convocation at EWU (2017-till date).
Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee for BA and MA program, EWU (2017-till date).
Member, Abstracts Review Committee (of National and International Conferences) at both EWU and the Department of English, EWU (2022-till date)
Invigilator, Departmental Faculty Recruitment Committee (written test), EWU (2015-till date).
Member, Admission Test Question Setter, EWU (2021-2022).
Member, Committee for Designing Course Material and Syllabus (for both BA (Hons) and MA in English at EWU), (2017-2022).
Reviewer, East West Journal of Humanities (2022).
Head, Course File Compilation Committee (for ENG 099) (2014-2019)
Course Coordinator, ENG 099 (Remedial English), EWU (2014-2019).
Moderator, East West University English Conversation Club (EWUECC) (2014-2018).
Spiritual Literature, Postcolonial Literatures, African Literature, Comparative Literature, Continental Literature, Indigenous Literature, Ecocriticism, and Cultural Studies.
1. MA Dissertation
Title of the Thesis: “Representation of Religion in African Postcolonial Literature”.
Supervisor: Mashrur Shahid Hossain, Professor and former Chair, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka- 1342.
2. Undergraduate Research Paper
Title of the Research Paper: “The Concept of Self in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself and in Select Baul Songs”
Supervisor: Mashrur Shahid Hossain, Professor and former Chair, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka- 1342.
1. Title of the Paper: "Decolonizing the Biocolonial Mind: Rebooting Resistance against Ecopolitics and Biocoloniality in Select Indigenous Female Poets’ Poetry in Bangladesh". Proceedings of the second annual AEGS conference (p. 46-75) on Struggle and/as Transformation held at Marquette University, the USA, on April 18-20, 2023. https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=aegs2023
2. Title of the Paper: "Knowing or ‘Knowing’ the Self?: Critical Relational Thinking about the Third ‘I’ in Select Poetry of Jibanananda Das and Rudolf Fabry". Name of the Journal: Bridging (Vol. I, Issue V, December 2024, forthcoming).
3. Title of the Paper: "Baul Gaan o Er Shangketik Bhasha" ("Baul Songs and Its Coded Language"). Name of the Journal: Tottotalash (Vol. I, Issue V, July 2022, pp. 147-177). https://www.rokomari.com/book/263647/totto-talash-5
4. Title of the Paper: “Wo/man(~hood/~liness) in Baul Tradition: Wo/men ≠ What We Mean?” Name of the Journal: Critical Space (Vol. VI, Issue II, February 2018, pp. 25-33). http://www.criticalspacejournal.in/pdf/critical_space_feb_2018.pdf
1. Name of the Conference: New Dimensions of Philology: Languages, Literature, Linguistics, Culture (10th International Conference)
Title of the paper: “Rereading the English Translations of the Enigmatic Words of Selected Baul Songs: A Critical Observation”
Date: June 10-16, 2024
Place: Department of Philology, the Faculty of Humanities and Information Technology Sciences of The Mazovian Academy in Płock, Poland.
2. Name of the Conference: New Dimensions of Philology: Languages, Literature, Linguistics, Culture (10th International Conference)
Title of the paper: “A Sociolinguistic Reading of Selected Bangladeshi Baul Songs and a Modest Proposal for Comparative Sociolinguistics”
Date: June 10-16, 2024
Place: Department of Philology, the Faculty of Humanities and Information Technology Sciences of The Mazovian Academy in Płock, Poland.
3. Name of the Conference: Critical-Affective Pedagogy for Bangladesh: Teaching Language, Literature, Cultural Studies and Communication in English
Studies
Title of the paper: “Benefits of Distraction in Classroom: Critical-Affective Pedagogy in Focus”
Date: May 24-25, 2024
Place: Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
4. Name of the Conference: From Stabat Mater to Mater Movens: Analysing Discourses on Motherhood
Title of the paper: "‘Stepmonsters’ and the Good Mother Myths in Bengali Folktales: Thakumar Jhuli (1907) in Focus"
Date: July 8-9, 2023
Place: Birkbeck, University of London
5. Name of the Conference: New Dimensions of Philology: Languages, Literature, Linguistics, Culture (9th International Conference)
Title of the paper: "A Critical Analysis of the Two Translated Versions of the Quran in Bangladesh: Can the Translators Speak?"
Date: May 29- June 04, 2023
Place: Department of Philology, Faculty of Humanities and Information Technology Sciences of The Mazovian Academy in Płock, Poland.
6. Name of the Conference: 2023 AEGS Social Justice Conference: Struggle and/as Transformation
Title of the paper: “Decolonizing the Biocolonial Mind: Rebooting Resistance against Ecopolitics and Biocoloniality in Select Indigenous Female Poets’
Poetry in Bangladesh”
Date: April 18-19, 2023
Place: Marquette University, USA.
7. Name of the Conference: Ruptures and Resilience: English Studies in the Now
Title of the paper: “Affective Ecofeminism in Indigenous Female Poets’ Poetry in Bangladesh”
Date: November 4-5, 2022.
Place: North South University.
8. Name of the Conference: ICSL 2020: Gender, Health, Information and Environment
Title of the paper: “An ‘Oblique’ Ecocriticism in Baul Songs”
Date: February 27-29, 2020.
Place: East West University.
9. Name of the Conference: Transgressing/Transcending Borders through Translation
Title of the paper: “Translating ‘mysteriums’ of Baul Songs: Discourses and Debates on Skopos and Freedom in Translation Studies”
Date: January 25-26, 2019.
Place: East West University.
10. Name of the Conference: Language, Literature, Culture and Politics: Celebrating Karl Marx’s Bicentenary
Title of the paper: “Green Politics in Mountain Literature in Bangladesh”
Date: November 30-December 1, 2018.
Place: University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB).
11. Name of the Conference: Refugees in the Public Imagination: Discourse of (Dis)location and (Dis)placement
Title of the paper: “Migration, Public Imagination and the Stories of the ‘godogs’”
Date: December 22-23, 2017.
Place: University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB).
12. Name of the Conference: Redrawing Gender Boundaries in Literary Terrains
Title of the Paper: “The Mystic People’s Woman(hood): Women ≠ What ‘We’ Mean?”
Date: 18-19 May, 2017.
Place: BRAC University, Dhaka
13. Name of the Conference: The River: Flows of Innovation and Exchange in the Global(i)zed English World
Title of the paper: “Of the Bauls, Baul Songs and Baul Tatwa: Knowing the Self”
Date: March 3-4, 2016.
Place: North South University.
1. Title of the Paper: “The Treatment of Women in Baul Tradition”
Date: August 22, 2017.
Place: East West University.
2. Title of the Paper: “Rereading Edward Said’s Representations of the Intellectual in the Context of Bangladesh: De-fining the Intellectuals and Their Intellectuality”.
Date: April 08, 2015.
Place: East West University.
1. Title of the Paper: “Of Baul Philosophy and Baul Tradition: The Bauls, Baul Songs and Baul Tatwa”
Date: November 02, 2015
Place: East West University
2. Title of the Paper: “Introducing Postcolonial Literatures: African Literatures in Focus”
Date: July 01, 2015
Place: East West University
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