A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
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Rohini Zakaria Oishee is a Lecturer at the Department of English, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has completed her graduation and post-graduation from the Department of English, University of Dhaka. Her research interests include postcolonialism, South Asian literature and film, Bangladeshi literature in English, diaspora, identity and belongingness, marginalization, feminism and Cultural studies.
Postcolonialism, South Asian literature and film, Bangladeshi literature in English, Diaspora and identity, Marginalization, Feminist studies and Cultural studies
Oishee, Rohini Zakaria. "The Grammar of Dominance: Language, Power and Hegemonic Masculinity in Recent Bollywood Blockbusters." International Conference on Epistemic Reconfigurations in Language Studies (ERLS): Decolonial Dialogues, Transformative Pathways, and Empowered Practices. BRAC Institute of Languages, BRAC University, Bangladesh. 6-7 November, 2026. (Upcoming)
Oishee, Rohini Zakaria. “Hegemonic Masculinity and the Spectacle of Violence in Mainstream Bollywood Cinema.” NSU-DEML International Conference on Encountering the Human(ities): Anxiety, Storytelling, Futurity. The Department of English and Modern Languages, North South University, Bangladesh. 30-31 October, 2026. (Upcoming)
Oishee, Rohini Zakaria. “Scarce Memory and Fabricated Imagination: Difficulty of Identity Formation for an Immigrant Child in Akhil Sharma’s Family Life.” 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference (Online) on Memory, Forgetting and Creating. InMind Support, Gdańsk, Poland. 23-24 January, 2025.
Oishee, Rohini Zakaria. "Difficulty of Identity Formation for an Immigrant Child: Representation of Diasporic Trauma in Akhil Sharma’s Family Life." International Conference on Language Metamorphosis: Implications for Language Education in Decolonial Contexts. BRAC Institute of Languages, BRAC University, Bangladesh. 28-30 November, 2024.
Afreen, Sadia and Oishee, Rohini Zakaria. "Tawaifs as Victims of Societal ‘Trans’formation in Pre-independent India: A Retrospect on Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Heeramandi." International Conference on The Trans- Phenomenon in Language, Literature, and Culture. The Department of English & Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Bangladesh. 15-16 November, 2024.
Oishee, Rohini Zakaria. "The Second Sex Fights Back: Re-examining Jasmeet K. Reen's Darlings from Feminist Lenses." 3rd International Conference on Environmental Hazards and Gender Issues: (Re)imagining Literature, Language, and Culture of the Global South. The Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh. 16-17 February, 2024.
Arusha, Anowara Rayhan. Shefa, Nazia Parvin and Oishee, Rohini Zakaria. "Global Englishes in Classrooms: A Systematic Review and Critical Study." International Conference on Teaching English Literature and Interdisciplinarity. East West University, Bangladesh in collaboration with Association of Teachers of Literatures in English, Bangladesh (ATLEB). 28-29 July, 2023.
Oishee, Rohini Zakaria. "Displacement and Struggle for Recognition in Monica Ali's Brick Lane." 2nd International Conference on Refugee, Resistance, and Recognition: Global Literary Representations in [Post]post-colonial Perspectives. The Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh. 24-25 February, 2023.
Oishee, Rohini Zakaria. “চরিত্র.” Dead Metaphor, 7 July 2024. bangla.deadmetaphor.net/%e0%a6%9a%e0%a6%b0%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%a4%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%b0/.
Oishee, Rohini Zakaria. “Can loneliness be a disease?” The Daily Star, 24 March 2024. www.thedailystar.net/star-literature/news/can-loneliness-be-disease-3574196.
Oishee, R. Z. “The Happiness Was Almost Heavy”: Fractured Subjectivity and Postcolonial Diasporic Identity in Akhil Sharma’s Family Life. Spectrum, 19(1). (Accepted for publication)
Arusha, A. R., Shefa, N. P., & Oishee, R. Z. (2025). Global Englishes in Classrooms: A Systematic Review and Critical Study. In A. S. Abdullah (Ed.), Teaching English Literature and Interdisciplinarity: Exploring the Unexplored and Broadening Horizons (pp. 128–141). essay, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-5779-2/
Oishee, R. Z. (2024). Deconstructing Domestic Violence in Bollywood: Feminist Reflections on Darlings (2022) . Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, 15(1), 162–181. https://doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v15i1.584
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Participated in a 4 month long training program on "Teaching, Learning and Research", organized by Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) in collaboration with Centre for Research & Training (CRT), East West University, Bangladesh. October 2024 - February 2025.
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