Education
- Ph.D. from University of Florida (2005)
Research Interests
Literature of the British Empire; English Novel, Gender Studies; Translation Studies; Postcolonial Theory; South Asian Diaspora
Publications
Books
- The Bird Catcher and Other Stories. Jaded Ibis Press, 2018. (Bangladesh edition; Bengal Lights Publishers, 2018).
- A War Heroine, I Speak (Translation of reportage on the rape victims of the liberation war of Bangladesh). Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2017. Print.
- Nawab Faizunnesa’s RupJalal (Translation and Commentary). Leiden : E. J. Brill Publishers, 2009
Articles/Essays
- “Women as Writers: Bengal: 19th Century to Early 20th Century.” Brill Online Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Ed. Suad Joseph. www.brill.nl/ewio. August, 2017.
- “In the Light of What We Know about the Good Muslims of Brick Lane and beyond: Religion, Diaspora and the Politics of a Homing Desire in the writings of Zia Haider Rahman, Tahmima Anam and Monica Ali. South Asian Diaspora, Special Issue. Eds. Mandal and Jain. Asiatic, June 2017. http:// www.asiatic.iium.edu.
- "Sultana’s Utopian Awakening: An Ecocritical Reading of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream.” A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Eds.Quayum and Hasan. New Delhi: Orient Black Swan, 2016.
- “Three Kinds of History, Three Women’s Texts, and the Futility of Diasporic Desire in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters and The Tree Bride.” Bharati Mukherjee: Critical Perspectives. Ed. Somdatta Mandal. New Delhi: Pencraft International. 2010.
Courses
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| 11867 | ENG3014 | Theories and Tech of Lit Study | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable | |
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Theories of Literature is a 3000-level course that explores major theories of literature from Aristotle to Wittig. You will read primary texts of theories and comprehensive analysis of various theories. In the process of being familiar with various critical ideas, you will read literary texts and try to theorize the texts and/or contextualize theories. |
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| 12325 | ENG3014 | Theories and Tech of Lit Study | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable | |
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Theories of Literature is a 3000-level course that explores major theories of literature from Aristotle to Wittig. You will read primary texts of theories and comprehensive analysis of various theories. In the process of being familiar with various critical ideas, you will read literary texts and try to theorize the texts and/or contextualize theories. |
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| 12310 | ENL3296 | Gothic Literature | Web-Based (W) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM | Unavailable | |
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PRE-1865. A study of Gothic literature (prose, poetry, drama) in the British Isles and its cultural contexts. </p> <p>We will map out the trajectory of black presence in British Literature using the lenses of history, politics, and culture. We will observe Britain’s painful process of naming/ renaming of the black presence, and the blackness’s literary and political struggle to make its existence noted in the imagined literary community of British Literature. Reading materials of this class will cover 20th century British literature.</p> |
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