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Associate Professor

Dr. Khandakar Ashraful Islam

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English

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Khandakar Ashraful Islam, (ORCID: 0000-0002-0176-4518), is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Noakhali Science and Technology University. Under ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) Fellowship he obtained his PhD degree from the Department of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India in 2021. His research expertise is concentrated on postcolonial literature, subaltern literature and Indian literature in English. His research articles have appeared in reputed peer reviewed journals like Crossroads: A Journal of University of Bialystok (Scopus Indexed), Spectrum: A Journal of the Department of English University of Dhaka, Crossings: ULAB Journal of English Studies, English Studies in India: A Journal of University of Kashmir. Moreover, he has participated in numerous national and international conferences, symposiums and trainings. He is currently engaged in a research project on the plights and struggles of the scavenger community in India and Bangladesh.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Postcolonial Literature

2016 - 2021

PhD

English

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

2008 - 2009

Master of Atrs

English

University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

2005 - 2008

BA (Hons.)

English

University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

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AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

1 Commonwealth Fellowship Scheme

Indian Council for Cultural Relations, India

Description: PhD in English Literature
Date: January 01, 2016

2025

Journal

Sexual Subject and Textual Braid: Autobiographical Politics of Emancipation in Audre Lorde’s Zami

Authors: Popy, Shirin Akter and Khandakar Ashraful Islam

Journal: ES Review: Spanish Journal of English Studies, Publisher: Department of English at the University of Valladolid, Spain , Volume: 46 , Page: 305-327

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24197/8j6vqs85

2023

Journal

Elusive Idea of Nationhood and Bifurcated Identity in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace

Authors: Islam, Khandakar Ashraful

Journal: Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies, Publisher: Department of English Language and Literature, Ege University, Turkey , Volume: 2 , Page: 15-24

2021

Journal

Biopolitical Nomos and “bare life” in Arundhati Roy’s novels

Authors: Islam, Khandakar Ashraful

Journal: Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, Publisher: University of Bialystok, Poland , Volume: 34 , Issue: 3 , Page: 16-26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15290/10.15290/CR.2021.34.3.02

2020

Journal

"Things can change in a day": Rereading Arundhati Roy’s Novels in the Dichotomy of “Change"

Authors: Islam, Khandakar Ashraful and Shirin Akter Popy

Journal: Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, Publisher: Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh , Volume: 11 , Page: 57-69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v11i.47

2016

Journal

(Re)tracing Resistance from a Culture of Silence: An Alternate Reading of the ‘Jele’ (fishing) Community

Authors: Islam, Khandakar Ashraful

Journal: Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, Publisher: Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh , Volume: 7 , Page: 72-82

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v7i.163

2016

Journal

Nature: A Warrior or a Victim of War? Reading Midnight’s Children in the Light of the Liberation War of Bangladesh (1971)

Authors: Islam, Khandakar Ashraful

Journal: Spectrum: Journal of the Department of English, University of Dhaka, Publisher: Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh , Volume: 12 , Page: 65-74

2015

Journal

American Dream: A Myth of Success or Mirage?: An Investigation into Lahiri’s The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth

Authors: Islam, Khandakar Ashraful

Journal: English Studies in India: A Referred Journal of English Literature and Language, Publisher: Department of English, University of Kashmir, India , Volume: 16 , Page: 123-133

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Masters - 2021-22

Md. Abdur Rahman

Assistant Teacher

Thesis Title: Postcolonial Melancholia and Diasporic Crisis in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence

Overview: This thesis examines Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence through the lens of postcolonial melancholia, camp mentality, and imagined communities as theorized by Paul Gilroy, Benedict Anderson and Charles Taylor. This study focusing on the unnamed Zanzibari protagonist’s migration to Britain, analyzes how unresolved imperial nostalgia, entrenched racial prejudice, and exclusionary national narratives hinder the formation of stable diasporic identity. Through close reading, this research highlights the structural and psychological barriers faced by migrants from former British colonies, showing how societal hostility and misrecognition disrupt dialogical identity formation. Findings reveal that the protagonist’s coping strategies, including narrative mimicry, self-silencing, and identity fabrication, fail to secure recognition or acceptance within British society. This study argues on the point that as long as Britain’s national imaginary remains steeped in postcolonial melancholia and xenophobia, meaningful dialogue and the integration of migrants into its social fabric remain unattainable, leaving diasporic identities fragmented and unfulfilled.

Masters - 2020-21

Rupam Bhowmik Shuva

Lecturer of English at Atish Dipankar University of Science and Technology, Dhaka

Thesis Title: Memory, Identity, and Socio-political Reality: A Psychosocial Study of Shahidul Zahir’s Life and Political Reality and Abu Ibrahim’s Death

Overview: Memory and identity are often intricately woven into the fabric of social, political, and cultural landscapes. Individual memory depends on the socio-political structures for its formation and representation. The social and political dynamics provide the lens through which members of a society navigate their psychosocial experiences which in fact, construct their collective identity. The social and political structures have a profound impact on the personal dimension of memory and the formation of individual and collective identity. This thesis, taking Maurice Halbwachs’ and Jan Assmann’s theories on collective memory and Jeffrey C. Alexander’s and Ron Eyerman’s ideas on cultural trauma as the theoretical framework, investigates the interplay between memory, identity, and socio-political influences in the context of Shahidul Zahir’s novellas, Life and Political Reality (1987) and Abu Ibrahim’s Death (2009). Each of the selected novellas portrays the relationship between individual and collective memory and exhibits how social and political frameworks influence the construction, preservation, andinterpretation of those memories. The major characters within each novella strive to represent their past in the face of opposition from the social and political structures. Tracing the essential events of these novellas through the theoretical lenses of memory and trauma studies, this thesis aims to provide insights into the role of memory in reconstructing individual and collective identity based on the present social and political reality. Additionally, it aims to argue on the struggle of representing the past and the challenge of establishing identity in the face of conflicting social and political values. Keywords: Shahidul Zahir, Memory, Trauma, Identity, Social framework, Socio-political Reality, Representation.

Masters - 2019-20

Jannatul Mawa

Lecturer of English at Atish Dipankar University of Science and Technology, Dhaka

Thesis Title: Trauma, Memory, and Nostalgia in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood and Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Overview: Enter Project/Thesis Overview Traumatic experiences directly influences the physical and mental health of the victims. These negative experiences sometimes lead to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which could result in physical injury through self-harm, anxiety and depression, low self-esteem, social difficulties, and suicide tendency. Study reveals that these sorts of emoticons are universal among all the trauma survivors. Trauma indiscriminate to gender culminates in negative traits such as chronic depression, anger management issues, continual existential crises, dissociation, unhealthy coping mechanisms e.g. alcohol/drug consumption, self-harming, self-blaming tendencies etc. This paper aims to review memory and trauma impact on male victims and theoretically analyzes how traumas reflected from a male point of view are equally devastating as a female victim.

Institutional Email: ashraf.2205@nstu.edu.bd
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SOCIAL PROFILES

Department

English

Noakhali Science and Technology University