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Mohammad Shafiqul Islam

Professor (Department of English) · Shahjalal University of Science and Technology

https://researchid.co/msijewel
@sust.edu
19Scopus Publications
46Google Scholar Citations
4Google Scholar h-index

Research Interests

Postcolonialism, World Literature, Translation Studies, Anthropocene, and South Asian Literature

Biography

Dr Mohammad Shafiqul Islam, (ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9880-4645), is Professor in the Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. His research interests encompass, but are not restricted to, Postcolonialism, World Literature, Translation Studies, Anthropocene, and South Asian Literature. Other than scholarly work in literature, he is committed to creative writing, poetry, and literary translation. Dr Islam is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Inner State (2020), and the translator of Humayun Ahmed: Selected Short Stories and Aphorisms of Humayun Azad. His research articles, poetry, and translation have appeared in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Critical Survey, Journal of World Literature, South Asian Review, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, English, Massachusetts Review, The NEHU Journal, and Poem: International English Language Quarterly.

Education

PhD, AUS, India (2018) MA in English, CU, Bangladesh (2000; exam held in 2004) BA (Hons) in English, CU, Bangladesh (1999; exam held in 2003)

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. Re-Presenting and Re-Membering Birangonas: War, Rape, and Trauma in Neelima Ibrahim’s A War Heroine, I Speak
    South Asian Review, 2025
  2. “A translator acts as a catalyst”: Mohammad Shafiqul Islam speaks to Fayeza Hasanat
    Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 2025
  3. War, religion, and terror: Syed Shamsul Haq's two novellas blue venom and forbidden incense
    Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture the Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination, 2024
  4. The Triumph of the Snake Goddess: A Composite Creative Translation of Verse into Prose
    Forum for World Literature Studies, 2024
  5. The Return of the Wasteland
    Psychological Perspectives, 2024

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