Israt Jahan

Assistant Professor
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: 324 || Room No# 249
shantiewu@ewubd.edu

Academic Background

M.A. in English Literature
Department of English,
Jahangirnagar University,
B.A. in English,
Department of English
Jahangirnagar University

Short Biography

Israt Jahan

Assistant Professor

Department of English

East West University

shantiewu@ewubd.edu

Academic Qualifications:

Degree	Institution	Year of Passing	Result
PhD (Ongoing) Session 2018-2019	Bangladesh University of Professionals
MA in English Literature	Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka	2004 (held in 2006)	2^nd class 2nd
BA in English	Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka	2003 (held in 2005)	2^nd class 5th
HSC	Shaheed Anwar Girls’ College, Dhaka	1999	1^st division
SSC	Tejgaon Girls’ High School, Dhaka	1997	1^st division

Job Experience:

Assistant Professor in the Department of English at East West University from

31.7.2017 to the present

Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at East West University from

17.4.2011 to 30.7.2017

Lecturer in the Department of English at East West University from 14.5.2009

to 1.4.2011

Lecturer in the Department of English at Primeasia University from 24.5.2008

to 13.5.2009

Publication Information:

International

Jahan, I. (2025). “Space and Psyche: The Bengal Partition in Chitra Nodir Pare and Swapnabhumi”.BRAC University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol 12 (December). https://doi.org/10.64501/0a2by990.
Shanta S.A., Jahan I., Mahmud S.S., (2024). Prospects of Incorporating Documentaries and Film Clips in the English Curriculum. Journal of Legal Ethical and Regulatory Issues 27(5) 1-16.
Jahan, I. (2018). “Comparative Studies on Films: Scopes of Digital Humanities”. Asian Journal of English Studies (AJES), 7. (1). 175-183.
Jahan, I. (2017). “Novel: Death or Resurrection of Storytelling?”. South Asian Review, 38. (2). 89-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2017.12002563
Jahan, I. (2016). “Documentation of History through Storytelling”. International Journal on English Language, Literature and Translation Studies (IJELR), Vol.3. Issue.4 (Oct-Dec.), P. 500-508. ISSN: 2395-2628 Print, 2345-9451(online).
Jahan, I. (2012). “Nationalism, Syncretism, and the Enforcers of History”. Asian Conference on Literature, P. 884-894. ISSN: 2186-229X, http://www.iafor.org/acah_proceedings.html.
Jahan, I. (2012). “The Art of Existence and the Care of the Self in Family Ties”. Language, Literature and Linguistics, P 288-293. ISSN: 2251-3566.

National

Jahan, I. (2010). “Real and Symbolic Unable to Bridge the Gap between the World and Richard Wright”. Harvest: Jahangirnagar Study of Language and Literature, Vol-25, P. 99-109, ISSN 17298326.
Jahan, I. (2015). An Existential Reading of Family Ties. East West Journal of Humanities. Vol.5, P 24-32. ISSN 2074-6628.

Book Chapter

Jahan, I. (2025). “‘Appropriating the Past’: A Critical Reading of “The Chess Player” and The Chess Player”. Nationalism and Indigenousness in Select Commonwealth Writings and Films: A Postcolonial Rereading. Edited by Pinaki Roy. Foreword by Amit Bhattacharya. Columbia University Press, New York, pp 425-444, ISBN: 9783838219158. ISBN (E-Book [PdF]): 987-3-8382-7915-2.
Jahan, I. (2023). “Short Story vs Film: A Critical Reading of “The Game of Chess” and The Chess Player”. English Literature: Texts, Contexts and Media. Edited by Dr. Suruchi Sharma and Dr. Kusum Kanger. Rudra Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, pp 70-79, ISBN: 978-93-92108-53-2.

Conferences and Seminars

Israt Jahan. “Untying the Ties in Family Ties”. International Conference on Locating Latin American Literature, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, 24-25 May 2009.
Israt Jahan. “Reading Fanon and Wright Today: Violence, master-Slave Dichotomy, and the Negro Question”. 3^rd International Conference on Pedagogy and Activism Now. East West University, Dhaka, 11-12 December 2009.
Israt Jahan. “Latin American Way of life”. International Postgraduate Conference 2012 on Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies in the 21^st Century, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, 25-26 May 2012.
Israt Jahan. ‘The Art of Existence and the Care of the Self in Family Ties”. 1^st Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2012), Fort Canning, Singapore, 9-10 July 2012.
Israt Jahan. “Nationalism, Syncretism, and the Enforcers of History”. 2nd Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, Virtual presentation, Osaka, Japan, 2012.
Israt Jahan. “Novel: Death/ Resurrection of Storytelling?” International Conference on Diasporas and Diversities: Teaching English in a Changing World, IUB, Dhaka, 5-7 November, 2015.
Israt Jahan. “Encoding and Decoding Myth”. 4^th International Conference on English Studies and the Marketplace. East West University, Dhaka, 19-20 February 2016.
Israt Jahan. “Comparative Studies on Films: Scopes of Digital Humanities”. 6^th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture, Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Anudh, Pune, India, 15-17 December 2017.
Israt Jahan. "‘Trans-creation by Adaptation: An observation on Shatranj ki Khiladi’. 5^th International Conference on Transgressing/Transcending Borders through Translation. East West University, Dhaka, 25-26 January 2019.
Israt Jahan. "A Silver-screen Screening of Partition of 1947”. A Two-Day International Conference on Borders, Diasporas, and Multilingualism in English Studies. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet. 7-8 January 2022.
Israt Jahan. “Alternative Archive to Teach History and Trauma through Literature”. International Conference on Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, American International University, Bangladesh (held online). 12-13 January 2022.
Israt Jahan. “Prospects of the Study of Documentaries and Film Clips in the Curriculum of ELT in Bangladesh”. 20th ASIATEFL - 68th TEFLIN - 5th INELTAL 2022 Indonesia (presented virtually). 5-7 August 2022.
Israt Jahan. "‘Appropriating the Past’: A Critical Reading of “The Chess Player” and The Chess Player". 6th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture (ICLLIC), English Language Studies, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia (held online). 1st and 2nd December 2022.
Israt Jahan. "Space and Human Psyche: The Partition of 1947 in the Reels of Tanvir Mokammel." Three-Day International Young Researchers' Conference organised by the Department of English Literature, School of Literary Studies, EFL University, Hyderabad (held online) from 26-28 April 2023.
Israt Jahan. "Looking Glass Border in Bishorjon and Bijoya. International Memory Studies Conference Memory, Ecology, Sustainability held on 20-22 September 2023 at IIT Madras, India.
Israt Jahan. "Understanding Past through the Lens of Present: Memory and Flashback in Ganguli's Bishorjon and Bijoya". Seminar Series Rhizome, Department of English East West University, 26 October 2023.
Israt Jahan. “The Looking Glass Border in Bishorjon and Bijoya”. International Conference on Film Studies (ICFS—24), Research Fora, Sydney, Australia. 22-23 February 2024.
Israt Jahan. “A Critical Study of Rajkahini: Affective Pedagogy to Teach Human Dimension of History”. Critical-Affective Pedagogy for Bangladesh: Teaching Language, Literature, Cultural Studies and Communication in English Studies. Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, 24 and 25 May 2024.
Israt Jahan. “1947 and Bangladesh: Memory, Amnesia, and Representation on Screen”. 8^th International Interdisciplinary Conference Memory, Forgetting, and Creating. InMind Support Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Gdańsk, Poland (held online). 23-24 January 2025.
Israt Jahan. “The Bengal Partition on Screen”. 8^th Annual South Asia Conference. DCU Ireland India Institute, Dublin, Ireland. April 15-17, 2025.
Israt Jahan. Teaching Visual Media Texts in Partition Studies: A praxis to eradicate amnesia on the study of the 1947 Partition in Bangladesh. Memoryscapes: Historiographies & Methodologies around the 1947 Partition. BRAC University, 17-18 February 2025.
Israt Jahan. Partition, Performance, and Form: Ghatak’s Use of Brechtian Techniques in Meghe Dhaka Tara. Two-Day International Seminar on Remembering Ritwik Ghatak: Partition in Film, Media and Literature & Exhibition. Centre for Film and Media Studies, Department of English, Department of Bengali, Dr. Meghnad Saha College, (held online)15-16 September 2025.
Israt Jahan. Spectacles of Violence in Toofan: Kitsch and the Aesthetics of Recent Bangla Blockbusters. The Southeast Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (SEACAH2026). Held in Singapore EXPO, Singapore, 5-9 February 2026.

Reviewer:

Reviewed the manuscript “Ecofeminism in Postcolonial Context: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things” for ASIATIC: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature (Scopus indexed) in March 2024.
Reviewed the manuscript “Interplay of Madness, Displacement, Disability, and State Apparatuses in Popular Culture and Literary Media” for Harvest: Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature, Volume 39 in May 2024.
Reviewed the manuscript “Popularity and Literary Merit of Humayun Ahmed’s Works in the Face of Literary Snobbery” for Harvest: Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature, Volume 39 in May 2024.
Reviewed the manuscript “The Aesthetics of the Pandemic Dystopia” for East West Journal of Humanities Special Issue, Volumes 9-12, 2023.
Reviewed the manuscript “Self-fulfilling Prophesy: COVID 19 pandemic was unpredictable, the outcomes for Media and Entertainment industry were not” for East West Journal of Humanities Special Issue, Volumes 9-12, 2023.

Award:

Research Day Award 2025 in the Assistant Professor category from the Department of English, East West University.

Professional Activities:

June 2017 –December 31, 2018: Member, Self-Assessment Committee, Department of English, East West University

External examiner of MA thesis, department of English, Jahangirnagar University.

Reviewer of journal articles, East West Journal of Humanities.

Member, Curriculum Development Committee, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Member, MA Handbook update, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Member, PSAC, 2023, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Coordinator, Seminar Series, Rhizome from Spring 2020-Spring 2022.

Head of Budget Committee, International Conference on Teaching English Literature and Interdisciplinarity Organised by East West University and Association of Teachers of Literatures in English, Bangladesh on 28 & 29 July 2023, Dhaka

MA Coordinator, 2023-Fall 2024, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Training and Workshop

“BAC Program Accreditation Process: PLO-CLO Mapping” for the Program Self-Assessment Committee (PSAC) of the academic program of BA in English, and all faculty members of BSS in Sociology, BSS in Information Studies, and B.Sc. in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, which was held on 17 June (Saturday) 2023 at 9:00 am at Room No. 114

IQAC of EWU on the survey questionnaire tools on Thursday, May 09, 2024, at 1:40 pm in room number 238

26.12.24: Dr. Fakrul Alam’s workshop on Academic Research and Writing for faculty members of the English Department, arranged by The Writing Centre, Department of English, East West University.

Personal Information:

Full Name: Israt Jahan

Spouse’s Name: Dr. Md. Maududur Rahman

Father’s Name: Abdus Sattar

Mother’s Name: Yasmin Begum

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Religion: Islam (Sunni)

Date of Birth: 13.12.1981

Permanent Address: 162, Monafer More, Raninagar, Rajshahi

References:

Dr. Fakrul Alam

Advisor,

Department of English, East West University

Former UGC Professor and

Professor

Department of English

University of Dhaka

+8801733595367

Mashrur Shaheed Hossain

Professor

Department of English

Jahangirnagar University

+8801818097116

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Israt Jahan

Professional Experience

24.5.2008-3.5.2009: Lecturer in the Department of English at Primeasia University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

14.5.2009-1.4.2011: Lecturer in the Department of English at East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

17.4.2011-30.7.2017: Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

31.7.2017-till date: Assistant Professor in the Department of English at East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

June 2017 –December 31, 2018: Member, Self Assessment Committee, Department of English, East West University

External examiner of MA thesis, department of English, Jahangirnagar University.

Reviewer of journal articles, East West Journal of Humanities.

Member, Curriculum Development Committee, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Member, MA Handbook update, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Member, PSAC, 2023, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

MA Coordinator, 2023, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Research Interest

Film Studies,

Postcolonial Literature,

Critical Theory,

Latin American Literature,

South Asian Literature

Selected Publications

International

Shanta S.A., Jahan I., Mahmud S.S., (2024). Prospects of Incorporating Documentaries and Film Clips in the English Curriculum. Journal of Legal Ethical and Regulatory Issues 27(5) 1-16.
Jahan, I. (2018). "Comparative Studies on Films: Scopes of Digital Humanities”. Asian Journal of English Studies (AJES), 7. (1). 175-183.
Jahan, I. (2017). “Novel: Death or Resurrection of Storytelling”. South Asian Review, 38. (2). 89-101.
Jahan, I. (2016). “Documentation of History through Storytelling”. International Journal on English Language, Literature and Translation Studies (IJELR), Vol.3. Issue.4 (Oct-Dec.), P. 500-508. ISSN: 2395-2628 Print, 2345-9451(online).
Jahan, I. (2012).“Nationalism, Syncretism, and the Enforcers of History”. Asian Conference on Literature, P. 884-894. ISSN: 2186-229X, http://www.iafor.org/acah_proceedings.html.
Jahan, I. (2012). “The Art of Existence and the Care of the Self in Family Ties”. Language, Literature and Linguistics, P 288-293. ISSN: 2251-3566.

National

Jahan, I. (2010). “Real and Symbolic Unable to Bridge the Gap between the World and Richard Wright”. Harvest: Jahangirnagar Study of Language and Literature, Vol-25, P. 99-109, ISSN 17298326.
Jahan, I. (2015). An Existential Reading of Family Ties. East West Journal of Humanities. Vol.5, P 24-32. ISSN 2074-6628.
Jahan, I. (2025). “Space and Psyche: The Bengal Partition in Chitra Nodir Pare and Swapnabhumi”. BRAC University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 12 (December), P 248-281. ISSN: 1811-8720. https://doi.org/10.64501/0a2by990.

Israt Jahan. “Untying the Ties in Family Ties”. International Conference on Locating Latin American Literature, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, 24-25 May 2009.
Israt Jahan. “Reading Fanon and Wright Today: Violence, master-Slave Dichotomy, and the Negro Question”. 3^rd International Conference on Pedagogy and Activism Now. East West University, Dhaka, 11-12 December 2009.
Israt Jahan. “Latin American Way of life”. International Postgraduate Conference 2012 on Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies in the 21^st Century, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, 25-26 May 2012.
Israt Jahan. ‘The Art of Existence and the Care of the Self in Family Ties”. 1^st Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2012), Fort Canning, Singapore, 9-10 July 2012.
Israt Jahan. “Nationalism, Syncretism, and the Enforcers of History”. 2nd Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, Virtual presentation, Osaka, Japan, 2012.
Israt Jahan. “Novel: Death/ Resurrection of Storytelling?” International Conference on Diasporas and Diversities: Teaching English in a Changing World, IUB, Dhaka, 5-7 November, 2015.
Israt Jahan. “Encoding and Decoding Myth”. 4^th International Conference on English Studies and the Marketplace. East West University, Dhaka, 19-20 February 2016.
Israt Jahan. “Comparative Studies on Films: Scopes of Digital Humanities”. 6^th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture, Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Anudh, Pune, India, 15-17 December 2017.
Israt Jahan. "‘Trans-creation by Adaptation: An observation on Shatranj ki Khiladi’. 5^th International Conference on Transgressing/Transcending Borders through Translation. East West University, Dhaka, 25-26 January 2019.
Israt Jahan. "A Silver-screen Screening of Partition of 1947”. A Two-Day International Conference on Borders, Diasporas, and Multilingualism in English Studies. Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet. 7-8 January 2022.
Israt Jahan. “Alternative Archive to Teach History and Trauma through Literature”. International Conference on Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, American International University, Bangladesh. 12-13 January 2022.
Israt Jahan. “Prospects of the Study of Documentaries and Film Clips in the Curriculum of ELT in Bangladesh”. 20th ASIATEFL - 68th TEFLIN - 5th INELTAL 2022 Indonesia. 5-7 August 2022.
Israt Jahan. "‘Appropriating the Past’: A Critical Reading of “The Chess Player” and The Chess Player". 6th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture (ICLLIC), English Language Studies, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia. 1st and 2nd December 2022.
Israt Jahan. "Space and Human Psyche: The Partition of 1947 in the Reels of Tanvir Mokammel." Three-Day International Young Researchers' Conference organised by the Department of English Literature, School of Literary Studies, EFL University, Hyderabad from 26-28 April 2023.
Israt Jahan. "Looking Glass Border in Bishorjon and Bijoya. International Memory Studies Conference Memory, Ecology, Sustainability held on 20-22 September 2023 at Chennai, India.
Israt Jahan. "Understanding Past through the Lens of Present: Memory and Flashback in Ganguli's Bishorjon and Bijoya". Seminar Series Rhizome, Department of English East West University, 26 October 2023.
Israt Jahan. “The Looking Glass Border in Bishorjon and Bijoya”. International Conference on Film Studies (ICFS—24), Research Fora, Sydney, Australia. 22-23 February, 2024.
Israt Jahan. “A Critical Study of Rajkahini: Affective Pedagogy to Teach Human Dimension of History”. Critical-Affective Pedagogy for Bangladesh: Teaching Language, Literature, Cultural Studies and Communication in English Studies. Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, 24 and 25 May 2024.
Israt Jahan. “1947 and Bangladesh: Memory, Amnesia, and Representation on Screen”. 8^th International Interdisciplinary Conference Memory, Forgetting, and Creating. InMind Support Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Gdańsk, Poland (held online). 23-24 January 2025.
Israt Jahan. “The Bengal Partition on Screen”. 8^th Annual South Asia Conference. DCU Ireland India Institute, Dublin, Ireland. April 15-17, 2025.
Israt Jahan. Teaching Visual Media Texts in Partition Studies: A praxis to eradicate amnesia on the study of the 1947 Partition in Bangladesh. Memoryscapes: Historiographies & Methodologies around the 1947 Partition. BRAC University, 17-18 February 2025.

1. Jahan, Israt. “Short Story vs Film: A Critical Reading of “The Game of Chess” and The Chess Player”. English Literature: Texts, Contexts and Media. Edited by Dr. Suruchi Sharma and Dr. Kusum Kanger. Rudra Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2023, pp 70-79, ISBN: 978-93-92108-53-2.

2. Jahan, I. (2025). “‘Appropriating the Past’: A Critical Reading of “The Chess Player” and The Chess Player”. Nationalism and Indigenousness in Select Commonwealth Writings and Films: A Postcolonial Rereading. Edited by Pinaki Roy. Foreword by Amit Bhattacharya. Columbia University Press, New York, pp 425-444, ISBN: 9783838219158. ISBN (E-Book [PdF]): 987-3-8382-7915-2.