Dr. Md Abu Shahid Abdullah

1. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. Magical Feminism in the Americas: Resisting Female Marginalisation and Oppression through Magic. Delaware: Vernon Press (Forthcoming, 2023).

2. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. Ed. Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.

3. 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

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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

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. “Resisting Environmental Destruction and Fighting Socio-Political Marginalisation in Hawaii in Kiana Davenport’s Shark Dialogues.” Building Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Nottingham Trent University, UK. 4-7 April, 2022.
   
2. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Encountering a Cold and Unwelcoming London: Dislocation, Predicament and Identity Crisis of the Caribbean Immigrants in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners.” International Conference on Borders, Diasporas, and Multilingualism in English Studies. Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. 07-08 January, 2022.
   
3. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Plague, Global Fear and Sense of Morality in Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague.” 2021 ELLAK International Conference (Online) on Beyond Pandemics: Reimagining the Humanities and the New Normal. The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK). 16-18 December, 2021.
   
4. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Self-Discovery and Identity (Re)formation through Journey in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf.” The First International Conference in Literature, Skikda 2021 on Being out of Place: Deconstructing Travel Narratives in Postcolonial Arab Novel. The University of 20 August 1955, Skidda, Algeria. 12-14 December, 2021.
   
5. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Analysing the Timeless Female Victimisation through Coetzee’s Disgrace and Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” International Interdisciplinary Conference (Online) on Representations of Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts. Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Turkey in collaboration with Ege University, Pamukkale University, Izmir Katip Celebi University and Istanbul Medeniyet University. 20-22 October 2021.
6. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Desire to Break Patriarchal Shackle and be Recognised in Anita Desai’s Cry, The Peacock.” International Interdisciplinary Conference (Online) on Representations of Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts. Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Turkey in collaboration with Ege University, Pamukkale University, Izmir Katip Celebi University and Istanbul Medeniyet University. 20-22 October 2021.
   
7. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “The Subcontinent Falls Apart: Communal Violence and Religious Intolerance in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan.” International Conference (Online) on Entangled Englishes in Translocal Spaces. The Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2-4 September, 2021.
   
8. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Trauma, Memory and the Reassertion of Identity in Joanne Fedler’s The Dreamcloth.” The 7^th International Online Conference on New Dimensions of Philology: Languages, Literature, Linguistics, Culture. The Department of Philology, The Faculty of Humanities and Information Technology Sciences of The Mazovian State University in Plock, Poland. 21-27 April, 2021.
9. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Interplanetary Colonisation, Isolation and Overdependence on Technology: Depicting Crisis in the Aftermath of Nuclear Fallout in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.” The 7^th International Online Conference on New Dimensions of Philology: Languages, Literature, Linguistics, Culture. The Department of Philology, The Faculty of Humanities and Information Technology Sciences of The Mazovian State University in Plock, Poland. 21-27 April, 2021.
10. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Globalisation, Consumerism and Social isolation: Depicting Pandemic in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.” International Symposium on Pandemic and its Representations in Literature. Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey. 26-27 March, 2021.
    
11. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Linking Personal Trauma of Sexual Violence with Collective Trauma of the Holocaust in D.M. Thomas’s The White Hotel.” International Conference The Art of Forgetting: Memory, Loss and Revision. University of Ottawa, Canada. 5-7 March, 2021.
    
12. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Reinterpreting Myth and History in Restructuring the Past in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel” (under the Panel: Rewriting the Past and Voicing the Marginalised). International Conference At the Crossroads: Narratives of the Excluded. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. 24-25 September 2020
13. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Giving a Voice to the Entire Subcontinent: Nationalism in R.K. Narayan’s Waiting for the Mahatma” (under the Panel: Rewriting the Past and Voicing the Marginalised). International Conference At the Crossroads: Narratives of the Excluded. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. 24-25 September 2020.
14. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Moving away from a Violent Past and the Process of Healing in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying” (under the Panel: Rewriting the Past and Voicing the Marginalised). International Conference At the Crossroads: Narratives of the Excluded. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. 24-25 September 2020.
15. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Reconstructing Personal Identity and Creating an Alternative National History in Gioconda Belli’s The Inhabited Woman.” International Conference (Online) on Gender Equality for a Better World: Issues and Challenges. Women’s College, Aligarh Muslim University, UP, India in collaboration with University Grants Commission, India. 19-20 August, 2020.
16. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Trauma, Memory and Amnesia: Physical and Psychological Repression in The Sleeping Voice and A Long Silence.” The 6^th International Online Conference on New Dimensions of Philology: Languages, Literature, Linguistics, Culture. The Department of Philology, The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of The Mazovian State University in Plock, Poland. 22-28 April, 2020.
17. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Rewriting Rural Community and Dictatorial History through Magical Realism in Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.” The 6^th International Online Conference on New Dimensions of Philology: Languages, Literature, Linguistics, Culture. The Department of Philology, The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of The Mazovian State University in Plock, Poland. 22-28 April, 2020.
18. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “(In)ability to Assert Independence and Freedom of Choice: A Comparative Study of the Treatment  of Women in British and Bengali Ballads.” The 1^st Multidisciplinary International Conference on the Social and Life Sciences: Gender, Health, Information and the Environment. East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 27-29 February, 2020.
19. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Deconstructing the Western Hegemony and Voicing Silenced Histories in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome.” International Conference on Postcolonial Perspectives: Language, Literature and Culture and the Global South. Department of English, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 14-15 February, 2020.
20. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Of the Women, by the Women, for the Women: Role of Female Writers in Sanskrit Literature as a Source of Female Agency.” International Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology (CALA 2020). University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. 5-8 February, 2020.
21. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Mocking Depiction of Corrupt Politicians: Magical Realism as a Means of Political Satire in Ngugi Wa Thiango’s Wizard of the Crow.” The 5th ASSE International Conference on British and American Studies. Albanian Society for the Study of English in collaboration with University of Vlora “Ismail Qemali”, Vlora, Albania. 6-8 June, 2019.
22. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. ‘“Beavis and Butt-head’: Comic and Derogatory Portrayal of Arabs in True Lies.” The 5th ASSE International Conference on British and American Studies. Albanian Society for the Study of English in collaboration with University of Vlora “Ismail Qemali”, Vlora, Albania. 6-8 June, 2019.
23. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Disillusionment, Estrangement and Identity Crisis in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon.” The 8^th Conference on Narrative and Language Studies. Faculty of Letters, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey. 2-3 May, 2019.
24. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Magical Realism as a Social and Political Protest: A Comparative Study between The House of the Spirits and Like Water for Chocolate.” The 8^th Conference on Narrative and Language Studies. Faculty of Letters, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey. 2-3 May, 2019.
25. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “From Welcoming the War to Rebuilding the Nation: Walt Whitman’s Shifting Attitude towards Civil War in Drum-Taps.” The 5^th International Online Conference on New Dimensions of Philology: Languages, Literature, Linguistics, Culture. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The State University of Applied Sciences in Plock, Poland. 10-16 April, 2019.
26. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Variations in Middle English Local Surnames.” The 5^th International Online Conference on New Dimensions of Philology: Languages, Literature, Linguistics, Culture. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The State University of Applied Sciences in Plock, Poland. 10-16 April, 2019.
27. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Accounts of Apartheid’s Bloody Past and Psychological Damage in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story.” International Conference on Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature. Post Graduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Odisha, India. 8-9 February, 2019.
28. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Sexuality, Eroticism and Language in One Thousand and One Nights.” International Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology (CALA 2019). Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia. 23-26 January, 2019.
29. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Magical Realism and the Voices of the Marginalised in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.” International Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology (CALA 2019). Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia. 23-26 January, 2019.
30. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Exploitation and Alienation of Migrant Workers in a Capitalist Society: A Marxist Interpretation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.” International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and Politics: Celebrating the Bicentenary of Karl Marx’s Birth. Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. November 30- December 01, 2018.
31. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Female Voices in Fairy Tales: A Weapon to Fight Oppressive Forces.” The 14^th International Conference on Humanities & Social Sciences. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. 22-23 November, 2018.
32. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Uncontrolled Experiment and Disastrous Consequences: An Ecocritical Approach to Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.” The 14^th International Conference on Humanities & Social Sciences. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. 22-23 November, 2018.
33. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “The American Paradox: Discovering America and the Filipino Immigrant Dream in Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart and Bienvenido Santos’ What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco.” The 2^nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Filipino Studies. University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA in collaboration with De La Salle University-Dasmariñas, Cavite, The Philippines. 16-18 November, 2018.
34. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Sense of Emptiness and Longing for Anchor: Diverse Consequences of Colonisation and Immigration in Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels.” The 2^nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Filipino Studies. University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA in collaboration with De La Salle University-Dasmariñas, Cavite, The Philippines. 16-18 November, 2018.
35. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Post-9/11 Backlash and Resulting Disillusionment in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Once in a Promised Land.” International Conference on Literature: Contemporary Perspectives on/in Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature and Theory. School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. 25-26 July, 2018.
36. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Heavy Silence and Horrible Grief: Joseph Skibell’s A Blessing on the Moon.” International Conference on Literature: Contemporary Perspectives on/in Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature and Theory. School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. 25-26 July, 2018.
37. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. ‘“This is me with Augustine, February 21, 1943’: Importance of Photographs in Everything Is Illuminated.” Konferensi Linguistik: International Conference on Language Phenomena in Multimodal Communication. Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia. 17-19 July, 2018.
38. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Construction of Home, Nation and Identity in Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag.” International Conference on Indian Literature as World Literature: Past, Present, Future. The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. 18-20 January, 2018.
39. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Refusing Racial and Gendered Subjugation: Escaping Marginalisation in Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.” International Conference on tHe pOliticS of dIfferencE: (Re)Locating Subalternity/ Marginality. Assam University, Diphu Campus, Assam, India. 22-23 September, 2017.
40. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Healing Trauma and Reasserting Identity through Remembrance:  A Comparative Study between Joanne Fedler’s The Dreamcloth and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” National Conference on New Media and Identity Formation. East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 21 January, 2017.
41. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Speaking the Unspeakable: Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels.” PhD colloquium (University of Bamberg, Bochum, Dresden and Siegen). Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. 24-26 July, 2015.
42. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Tommy Wilhelm: The Untraditional Hero of Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day.” Student Conference. University of Bayreuth, Germany. 10-12 January, 2014.

1. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. PhD colloquium (University of Bamberg, Bochum, Dresden, and Siegen). University of Bamberg, Germany. 12-14 February, 2016.
2. Abdullah, Abu Shahid. The 7^th International Walt Whitman Seminar. University of Bamberg, Germany. 21-26 July, 2014.

1. Participated in a Workshop on “OBE Curriculum Development” organised by University Grants Commission (UGC), Bangladesh. 03-04 November, 2021.
2. Participated in a Workshop on Gender Studies at University of Asia Pacific, Bangladesh with support from The Association of Commonwealth Universities. 27 January, 2018
3. Participated in the Creative Writing Workshop “Writing War” conducted by Julia Pascal at University of Bamberg, Germany. 10-12 January, 2013

1. 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. 281-196. ISBN: 978-3-030-39834-7

1. 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)

2. 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. “Resisting White Supremacy and Constructing Identity: Magical Resistance in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks.” Literary Association of Nepal (LAN), Nepal. 31 December, 2021.