Shahnaz Ameer

Senior Lecturer
Department of English

Faculty

Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Address

A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh

Office

Ext: 317 || Room No# 246
shahnazameer@ewubd.edu

Academic Background

M.A. in English Literature, University of Dhaka
B.A. in English, University of Dhaka
Advance Research Methodology Course, IER, University of Dhaka
Creative Writing Course, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh

Shahnaz Ameer is a Senior 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 women and gender studies, psychoanalytic criticism, postmodernism, cultural studies, and magic realism. She is also passionate about creative writing.

Professional Experience

Senior Lecturer, Department of English, East West University (February 2023 to Present)
Lecturer, Department of English, East West University (January 2020 to January 2023)
Moderator, East West University Sports Club (July 2022 to September 2023)
Copywriter at Credence Housing Limited from (December 2018 to December 2019)
Faculty (English) at Bangladesh Digital Education and Research Limited, United Group from (December 2018 to May 2019)
Communications Manager at AMAL Foundation (January 2016 to December 2018)
Mentor at Department of English, University of Dhaka (2015 to 2018)

Research Interest

Psychoanalytic criticism
Postmodernism
Women and Gender Studies
Cultural Studies
Creative Writing
Magic Realism

Selected Publications

Jahan, I, Ameer, S and Tahsin, S 2024, ‘A critical study of Rajkahini: Affective pedagogy to teach human dimension of history’, paper presented at Critical Affective Pedagogy for Bangladesh: Teaching Language, Literature, Cultural Studies and Communication in English Studies and Communication in English Studies, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, 24-25 May
Ameer, S 2024, ‘Sentimental analysis: Bridging Romantic Poetry, Ecocriticism, and Machine Learning in Digital Humanities’ paper presented at 3rd International Conference on Environmental Hazards and Gender Issues: (Re)imagining Literature, Language, and Culture of the Global South, Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, 16-17 February.
Ameer, S 2023, ‘Women’s Resistance Through Time: A Feministic Interpretation of Outlander’ paper presented at Mapping Gendered Spaces in Language, Literature and Culture, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 5 May
Ameer, S 2023, ‘Hybridity, Unhomeliness and Resistance: A Postcolonial Interpretation of The White Tiger’ paper presented at 2nd International Conference on Refugee, Resistance, and Recognition: Global Literary Representations in [Post]post-colonial Perspectives, Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, 24-25 February.
Ameer, S 2021, 'Triple Marginalization of Afghan Women in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns', paper presented at From Kabuliwala to the Fall of Kabul: Afghanistan in Popular Imagination, ULAB, Dhaka, 30-31 October
Ameer, S 2017, Pride and Prejudice and Fifty Shades of Grey: Wealthy Heroes and Smitten Heroines, paper presented at 200th Jane Austen’s Commemoration, ULAB, Dhaka, 20-21 April

Ameer, Shahnaz 2022, ‘Manifestation of Remix Culture in Bollywood Songs: A Postmodern Analysis’, Erothanatos, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 69-82.
Ameer, Shahnaz 2018, 'Pride and Prejudice and Fifty Shades of Grey: Wealthy Heroes and Smitten Heroines'. Erothanatos, vol. 2, no. 4, 2018, pp. 88-97.

Professional Development Workshop, BELTA, East West University, 2022
Qualitative Research (and NVivo), CRT, East West University, 2024

Ameer, Shahnaz 2022, ‘The Redeemed Mariner: A Post-Pastoral Reading of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’’, Harvest, vol. 37, pp. 7-16.

Ameer, Shahnaz 2023, '10 Best Books That Transport You to South Asia'. Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, vol. xviii, no. 1-2, pp. 217-239.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSKRGP4F?ref=myi_title_dp
Ameer, Shahnaz 2022, '10 Best Novels by South Asian Authors Since the 2020 Pandemic'. The Business Standard, 30 December, pp. 13.
https://www.tbsnews.net/features/book-review/10-best-novels-south-asian-authors-2020-pandemic-560242

Awards & Achievements

EDAS Ceremony Award - 1st Class 2nd, - B.A. in English, University of Dhaka
EDAS Ceremony Award - 1st Class 3rd - M.A. in English Literature, University of Dhaka

Teaching Materials

ENG 099: Remedial English
ENG 100: Improving Oral Communications Skills
ENG 101: Basic English
ENG 102: Composition and Communication Skills
ENG 191: Introduction to Literature: Fiction and Non-Fiction Prose
ENG 192: Introduction to Literature: Poetry and Drama
ENG 213: English Satire
ENG 230: Nineteenth Century Novel
ENG 245: Romantic Poetry
ENG 301: Elizabethan and Restoration Drama
ENG 310: Shakespeare
ENG 315: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Poetry

Affiliation Professional Membership

Assistant Editor, Erothanatos, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal on literature, E-ISSN 2457-0265
Member, Association of Teachers of Literatures in English, Bangladesh (ATLEB)

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