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Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
Dr. Md Abu Shahid Abdullah completed his MA in English and American Studies and his PhD in English literature at Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Germany. He is currently an Associate Professor in English at East West University, Bangladesh. His research interests include trauma, alienation, memory, identity, marginalisation and magical realism. He has published book chapters with publishing houses like Palgrave Macmillan and Cambridge Scholars Publishing and over 20 articles in different international journals. He has also presented over 50 research papers at different international conferences. His first book Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels: Speaking the Unspeakable and his second book Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK in 2020 and 2022 respectively. His third book Magical Feminism in the Americas: Resisting Female Marginalisation and Oppression through Magic, was published by Vernon Press, USA in 2024. Dr. Abdullah's latest book Empowering Black Women through Female Solidarity in Selected Black Female Narratives has been published by Exceller Books, Kolkata in November, 2024.
Teaching Experience:
Trauma, alienation, memory, identity, marginalisation, postcolonialism, ecocriticism and magical realism
1. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. Ed. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching (English) Literature: Exploring the Unexplored/Broadening the Horizon. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Accepted, 2025)
2. Abdullah, Abu Shahid & Moutushi Islam. Empowering Black Women through Female Solidarity in Selected Black Female Narratives. Kolkata: Exceller Books, 2024. ISBN (10): 8119524071; ISBN (13): 978-8119524075 https://excellerbooks.com/product/empowering-black-women-through-female-solidarity-in-selected-black-female-narratives/
3. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. Magical Feminism in the Americas: Resisting Female Marginalisation and Oppression through Magic. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2024. ISBN: 979-8-8819-0025-0 https://vernonpress.com/book/2063
4. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. Ed. Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. ISBN (10): 1-5275-8439-9; ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-8439-6 https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8439-6
5. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels: Speaking the Unspeakable. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. ISBN (10): 1-5275-4628-4; ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-4628-8 https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-4628-8
1. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Plague, Global Fear and Sense of Morality in Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Beyond Pandemics: Reimagining the Humanities and the New Normal. December 2021: 81-83.
2. Abdullah, Abu Shahid & Tanvir Mustafiz Khan. “Globalization, Consumerism and Social Isolation: Depicting Pandemic in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.” Proceedings of The International Symposium: Representations of Pandemic in Literature. September 2021: 154-160. ISBN: 978-625-7086-38-7
3. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. ‘“Indeed, the King has a Cunt! What a Wonder!’: Sex, Eroticism and Language in One Thousand and One Nights.” Proceedings of The Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019 (CALA 2019): Revitalization and Representation. January 2019: 22-28. DOI: 10.47298/cala2019.1-1 ISBN 978-0-6485356-0-7 (Scopus Indexed)
4. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. ‘“This is me with Augustine, February 21, 1943’: Importance of Photographs in Everything Is Illuminated.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Phenomena in Multimodal Communication (KLUA 2018). August 2018: 22-26. doi:10.2991/klua-18.2018.3 ISBN 978-94-6252-547-4
1. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Literary Representation of Trauma from a Marginalized Standpoint: Reinventing the Past and Creating an Alternative History.” Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past. Ed. Abu Shahid Abdullah. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. 1-14. ISBN (10): 1-5275-8439-9
2. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Asserting Identity and Establishing Alternative Mode(s) of Speaking: Slavery and the Search for Female Freedom in Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo.” Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past. Ed. Abu Shahid Abdullah. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. 76-91. ISBN (10): 1-5275-8439-9
3. Abdullah, Abu Shahid & Tanvir Mustafiz Khan. “Surviving Crises and Imagining Utopia in Han Kang’s Human Acts.” Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past. Ed. Abu Shahid Abdullah. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. 188-198. ISBN (10): 1-5275-8439-9
4. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Reconstructing Personal Identity and Creating an Alternative National History: Magical Realism and the Marginalised Female Voice in Gioconda Belli’s The Inhabited Woman.” The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century. Eds. Richard Perez and Victoria A. Chevalier. Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020. 281-296. ISBN: 978-3-030-39834-7
1. Islam, Moutushi. "Empowering Black Women through Female Solidarity: A Magical Realist and Gynocritical Analysis of I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Mama Day and The Color Purple." (Completed, Spring 2022).
2. Khan, Tanvir Mustafiz. ‘“Survival is Insufficient’: Imagining Utopia within Dystopia in Station Eleven, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Human Acts.” (Completed, Spring 2021)
3. Mursheeda, Afia. “Apocalypse is No More Far, it is here: Prognostication about Technological Jeopardies in Dystopian Fiction and Film.” (Completed, Fall 2020)
1. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Magical Realism and Women in the Americas.” Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. 7 October, 2024.
2. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Resisting White Supremacy and Constructing Identity: Magical Resistance in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks.” Literary Association of Nepal (LAN), Nepal. 31 December, 2021.
1. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. Panel Theme: Eco-Fiction. 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.
2. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. Panel Theme: Changing Ecologies in Southeast Asia. 5th ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Conference: Posthuman Southeast Asia. School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand and ASLE-ASEAN. 23-25 November, 2023.
3. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. Panel Theme: Film Studies. International Conference on Teaching English Literature and Interdisciplinarity. The Department of English, East West University and ATLEB. 28-29 July, 2023.
4. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. Panel Theme: Home and (Un)home. 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.
Responsibilities:
COURSE CONDUCTED:
ENG 100: Improving Oral Communication Skills
ENG 102: Composition and Communication Skills
ENG 191: Introduction to Literature: Fiction and Nonfiction Prose
ENG 230: Nineteenth Century Novel
ENG 245: Romantic Poetry
ENG 315: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Poetry
ENG 320: Victorian Prose and Poetry
ENG 340: Eighteenth Century Novel
ENG 403: Modern Novels
ENG 410: Continental Literature
ENG 455: Comparative Literature
ENG 508: Masterpieces of World Literature
ENG 510: Introduction to Feminist Studies
ENG 522: Modernism to Postmodernism
ENG 524: Special Studies
ENG 9505: War and Trauma in Literary Studies
Member:
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment of South-east Asian Nations (ASLE-ASEAN)
Associate Editor:
East West Journal of Humanities (EWJH)
Reviewer:
Children and Youth Services Review
Crossings: A Journal of English Studies