Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
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Professor (Department of English)
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
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)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Postcolonialism, World Literature, Translation Studies, Anthropocene, and South Asian Literature
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Scopus Publications
Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, ISSN: 10455752, eISSN: 15483290, Published: 2021
Informa UK Limited
Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
Journal of World Literature, ISSN: 24056472, eISSN: 24056480, Pages: 65-83, Published: 2020
Brill
Abstract This article observes that Kaiser Haq has made an immense contribution to Bangladeshi poetry in English, leading the school of English poetry of the country from the front. A relatively new field, Bangladeshi writing in English has started becoming a part of world literature, and its scope, no doubt, is expanding rapidly. The article also focuses on the legacy of Bangladeshi writing in English to demonstrate how Bangladeshi poetry in English has simultaneously progressed. The article argues that Haq’s enormous contributions justify his position as the best English-language poet in Bangladesh. For his poetry, the poet takes material from his motherland and its rich culture, and his style, technique, and diction resonate with those of prominent poetic voices of the world. The article also sheds light on how Haq presents Bangladesh, depicting numerous shades of reality, and how he still dominates in the contemporary scene of Bangladeshi poetry in English.
Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
Critical Survey, ISSN: 00111570, eISSN: 17522293, Pages: 40-53, Published: December 2018
Berghahn Books
Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest book, In Other Words, is an autobiographical text that highlights the author’s journey to a new land and language. She grows up in America, communicates in Bengali with her parents during her early childhood and uses English in school; a sense of ambivalence about language dawns in her at this time. Her parents insist that Bengali be a dominant language in her life, but she falls in love with English, which later becomes her own language and the medium of her literary writing. During her doctoral studies, she feels an impulse to learn Italian and desperately strives to speak and write in that language. In Other Words, originally written in Italian, is the ultimate outcome of her aspirations to learn Italian. As the author switches from one language to another, from Bengali to English, and then from English to Italian, she forms an ambivalent sense of separation and proximity. This article seeks to explore Lahiri’s love for language, her sense of alienation and belonging, loss and achievement, and her search for identity and metamorphosis.
Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, ISSN: 17449855, eISSN: 17449863, Published: 5 May 2017
Informa UK Limited
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Inner State (poetry collection); Aphorisms of Humayun Azad (translation); Humayun Ahmed: Selected Short Stories (translation); Wings of Winds (poetry collection)