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mahossain@ru.ac.bd,

Department of English, University of Rajshahi


MD. ALAMGIR HOSSAIN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
English


Education Summary  
B.A. (Hons), M.A. (Raj), M.A. (Eastern Illinois University, USA), PhD (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Research Interest  
Postcolonialism, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Diaspora Literature, World Literature, South Asian Anglophone Literature, Globalization, Literary and Cultural Theory
Level Institution Year
Doctoral
(Ph.D. in English)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA 2024
Masters
(M.A. in English)
Eastern Illinois University, USA 2016
Masters
(M.A. in English)
Rajshahi University 2003
Bachelor/Honors
(B.A. (Honors))
Rajshahi University 2002

Experience in Rajshahi University

Duration Organization/Institute Position
2012-07-23 to Department of English, Rajshahi University ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
2009-12-08 to 2012-07-22 Departent of English, Rajshahi University LECTURER
2009-03-08 to 2009-12-07 Department of English, Begum Rokeya University LECTURER

Experience in other Organization/Institute

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Book Chapter

1. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Moving Through Urban Spaces and Achieving an Autonomous Self in Brick Lane." Texts, Translations, Cultures :South Asian Contexts. Ed. Maswood Akhter (Forthcoming)

Published: August 2023

Journal

1. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Toxic Grace? Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace and the Pollution Trade." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 58, no. 6, 2022, pp. 773-786

Published: December 2022
2. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Muslims in Diaspora: Negotiating Identity in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers." South Asian Review, vol. 42, no. 1, 2021, pp. 94-108

Published: February 2021
3. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Sarah Waters’s Affinity: A Séance of the Sexual Subaltern." Praxis, vol. 7, 2015, pp. 69-81

Published: July 2015
4. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Islam, Terrorism and Bangladesh: Reading Adib Khan’s Spiral Road." Praxis, vol. 5, 2013, pp. 16-32

Published: July 2013
5. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: An Exploration of the Collective Unconscious." vol. 28, 2013, pp. 45-54

Published: March 2013

Conference

1. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Heterogenous Space and Diasporic Identities in Zadie Smith's White Teeth." LSU Comparative Literature and French Studies Graduate Conference, 08 Apr. 2022, organized by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of French Studies, Louisiana State University, USA.

Published: April 2022
2. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Neoliberal Development, Environmental Disaster, and Temporal Resistance in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People." Building Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 05 Apr. 2022, organized by Postcolonial Studies Centre, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Published: April 2022
3. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Pollution Trade, Development, and Dispossession in Contemporary South Asian Anglophone Fiction." British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Conference, 16 Feb. 2022, organized by the Department of Literature and Philosophy, Georgia Southern University, USA

Published: February 2022
4. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "University, Neoliberalism, and the Undercommons: Resistance in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist." SALA Conference, 07 Jan. 2019, organized by South Asian Literary Association, held in Chicago, USA

Published: January 2019

Other

1. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Uneven development, dispossession, and environmental degradation in Twenty-First Century South Asian Fiction." A talk given at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA on 09 November 2021

Published: November 2021
2. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Postcolonialism in the 21st Century: Context Bangladesh." A talk given at Leading University, Bangladesh, 25 September 2021

Published: September 2021
3. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "'Postcolonial Theory, Sort of, Not Really, Maybe Not at All': Shona Jackson on Postcolonial Theory and Indigenous Labor in the Caribbean." A blog for Kritik, UIUC Unit for Criticism, 1 November 2018

Published: November 2018
4. Hossain, Md. Alamgir "Spatial Appropriation and Self-construction in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth." A lecturer given at the department of English, Eastern Illinois University, USA, 24 October 2017

Published: October 2017
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