Ongoing Researches: Department of English

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Current Research and Teaching Interests

  • Eighteenth century English Literature; Translation Studies; South Asian Writing in English; English
  • Writing on India; Melville and the American Literary Renaissance; Colonialism/ Postcolonialism;
  • National Identity Formation and Bangladeshi History; Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das;
  • Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Life and Works
  • Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
  • Discourse of Advertisements
  • Equal Employment Opportunity Policies
  • Teacher Education
  • Media and Film Studies
  • Photojournalism
  • Education Technology
  • English language teaching (ELT) and applied linguistics


  • L2 learners’ individual difference (ID)
  • Learner autonomy
  • Innovative teaching approaches
  • Academic writing
  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Contemporary American Ethnic and Immigrant literatures
  • Immigrant nostalgia
  • Diaspora and belongingness
  • Representation of women in the war narratives of Bangladesh

Second Language Acquisition (SLA),
English Language Teaching (ELT),
Material Development and
Teacher Education

Trauma, alienation, memory, identity, marginalisation, postcolonialism, ecocriticism and magical realism

Applied Linguistics (Discourse, Pragmatics, EFL, Sociolinguistics), SLA

 Women Writing

 Bangladeshi Writing in English

 South Asian Literature

 World Literature

 Cultural Studies

 Postcolonialism

 Feminism(s)

 Literary Translation

Teaching Language through Literature

Second Language Acquisition
Language Testing and Evaluation
ICT in language Education
Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis

Film Studies,

Postcolonial Literature,

Critical Theory,

Latin American Literature,

South Asian Literature

Gender and Development Studies

 Climate Change and Gender studies

Theory and Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory

 Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, South Asian Literature, East Asian Literature, Bangla Literature 

African American Literature

Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature

Embodiment 

New Materialism

Literary Criticism and Theory

Global Women's Cinema

American Literature

Rhetoric

Spiritual Literature, Postcolonial Literatures, African Literature, Comparative Literature, Continental Literature, Indigenous Literature, Ecocriticism, and Cultural Studies.

Second Language Acquisition, Form-focused Instruction, Corrective Feedback, Corpus-based Language Teaching, Use of Technology in Language Teaching

Indian Mythology, Indian Confessional Poetry, Postmodernism, Queer Theory, Feminism, Shakespeare Criticism