Teaching

Guest lecture: "On Photography" Undergraduate module EN122 Modes of Reading in February 2024 at the University of Warwick.

Recently I taught on the undergraduate module EN123 Modern World Literatures (2022-2023). I have previously taught on EN101 Epic into Novel in 2021-2022 at Warwick as a Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant. I am also an Assistant Professor (on study leave) in the Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Professional Training: Associate Fellow (AFHEA), 2023.

Membership

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) 2023-2024

Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, (ACCUTE) 2023-2024

Warwick Environmental Humanities Network

Publications

• "Containers of “Meat, Blood, and Madness”: Exploitative Labor and Disposable Bodies in Lullaby and Still Born." Journal of World-Systems Research Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2024.1236
• "State oppression and Adivasi Resistance in Mahasweta Devi's Chotti Munda and His Arrow" . Crossings: Journal of English Studies, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Vol. 12, 2021.

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• “Overcoming the Gleam of Empire and the Excremental State in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born”. Crossings: Journal of English Studies, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Vol. 10, 2019.
• “Perpetuating Subalternity through Caste: A Close Look at Untouchable and The God of Small Things”, The Arts Faculty Journal, University of Dhaka, Vol. 8 & 9. No. 12 & 13, July 2016- June 2018.
• “Petro-culture as an Oppressor of Women and Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of Nawal El Saadawi’s Love in the Kingdom of Oil”, Crossings: Journal of English Studies, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Vol. 9, 2018.

Conferences

• 16 May, 2024. "Oil and Fire in Transparent City: Cityscape or a Hellscape?". Petrocultures 2024 Conference, Los Angeles, USA.
• 1 March, 2024. "After all, since the world began, we've been eating each other". Corrosive Capitalism and Necrotic Consumption in Tender is the Flesh. Cannibal Consumption: Culture, Capitalism, Critique. University College Dublin, Ireland.
• 24 February, 2024. "Vengeful Deity or the Saviour of Nature?: Supernatural Resistance of Petro-Violence in The Return of the Water Spirit". Divine Disasters: Exploring Distressed Landscapes in Literature and Theology. University of Warwick, UK.
• 30 August, 2023. "Rampant Capitalism and Violent Modernism of Angolan Oil Extraction Zone in Pepetela’a Narrative". ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference 2023. University of Liverpool, UK.
• 28 May, 2023. "Blood and Bodies for the 'monstrous economy' in "In the City of Red Dust" funded by Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick. Congress 2023, Toronto: ACCUTE Conference. York University, Canada.
• 25 February, 2023. "Feminised Bodies as Sites of Violence and Trauma in “Things We Lost in the Fire". Territorial Bodies: World Culture in Crisis. University of Warwick UK.
• 12 November, 2022. "Instability of the Offshore and Invisibility of the Oil Work". The Subterranean Anthropocene. The British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium.
• 22 June, 2022. "Petro-sexual Exploitation of Migrant Women’s Labour in The Bamboo Stalk". Women in World (-) Literature Conference. University of Warwick, UK.

• 29 - 30 April, 2022. "Fossil Fuels and Energy Transition in the Petro-capitalist World of Oil". Durham Castle Conference: Transitions and New Realities. University of Durham, UK.
• 30 - 31 October, 2021. “Trauma and the Hidden Fragmentation of Afghanistan in Nadeem Aslam's Fiction”. From Kabuliwala to the Fall of Kabul: Afghanistan in Popular Imagination. University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka.
• 16 - 17, September, 2021. “Eco-terrorism in the Face of Petro-capitalism in Petroplague”. Erasure and the Environment. Loughborough University, UK.
• 9 - 11, September, 2021. “Petro-capitalism and the Narrative of Survival in Laura Restrepo’s The Dark Bride”. The Hidden in Performance, Visual, and Literary Culture. M4Cities, UK.
• 22 July, 2021. “Statelessness and Loss of Identity of Migrant Workers in Petrofictions”. Fiction in the Age of Globalization. Tübingen University, Germany.

Dean’s Merit Award for Academic Recognition, University of Dhaka