Ongoing Researches: Department of English

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  • 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

 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

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

Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature

Literary Criticism and Theory

Global Women's Cinema

American Literature

Rhetoric

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

Language teacher cognition,
Focus on form,
Second language acquisition

Environmental/Eco theory and literatures, Indigenous and Postcolonial ecocriticism, environmental humanities, Postcolonial theory and literature, Cultural Studies, and Subaltern Studies

Teacher training and development
Use of technology in teaching Writing
Technology integration in foreign (second) language acquisition