Metropolitan University

Anik Biswas

Associate Professor

Biography

Anik Biswas is an academic administrator. He is an Associate professor of English at Metropolitan University, Sylhet, Bangladesh who has been serving at this university since 2012. He served as the Chairman of the department from 16 October 2017 to 30 June 2023. 
Biswas has over 15 years of experience in teaching and previously taught at Sylhet Engineering College and Blue-Bird School and College. He has some significant journal articles and book chapters to his credit. He is the editor of the Newsletter of Metropolitan University. Besides, he serves as the Editorial Assistant of Metropolitan University Journal.
His research interests include ‘literature and films’, ‘translation studies’, ‘cultural studies’, and ‘theories in literature’.

Education

M.A. in English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet

B.A. (Hons.) in English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet

Award & Achievements

Publications: Journal Articles

1. Voice of God and the Spirit of One’s Own in Chetan Bhagat’s One Night at the Call Center
Metropolitan University Journal of English (Vol.1, 2015)
Metropolitan University, Bangladesh 

2. “Satyajit Ray’s Ganashatru: An Intersemiotic Translation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People”
Crossings: ULAB Journal of English Studies (Vol.7, 2016)
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh 

3. Transcreating Lal Shalu: Tanvir Mokammel’s Intersemiotic Translation of Syed Walliullah’s Lal Shalu 
Crossings: A Journal of English Studies (Volume 13, No.1, 2022)
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh

4. Entrapment of Human Beings in Lokenath Bhattacharya’s The Virgin Fish of Babughat 
The BAUET Journal (Issue-2, Vol-3) 
Bangladesh Army University of Engineering and Technology

Publication: Book Chapters

1. A Study of Trauma in Adwaita Mallabarman’s A River Called Titas (With co-author, Md. Ishrat Ibne Ismail)
Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past (2022) [Chapter-4]
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK

2. The Third Space: Wollstonecraft’s Feminist Vision in Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching (English) Literature: Exploring the Unexplored/ Broadening the Horizon
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK

Publication: Newspaper Article

Optimism in Nothingness: A Look on Some Major Characters of Humayun Ahmed
The Daily Sun, Bangladesh 	
Date: 5 July 2013

Papers Presented in Conferences

1. Conference/Date(s): International conference on Social Sciences in the 21st Century: Survival Strategy for Human Kind Amid IR 4.0/July 18, 2019
Title of the Presentation:  Trap and Emancipation of Human Beings in Lokenath Bhattacharya’s The Virgin Fish of Babughat
Organizer: Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)
Keynote Speaker(s): Ifty Islam, Chief Executive Officer, Asian Tigers

2. Conference/Date(s): The 2nd International Conference on Literature: “Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future”/29-30 July, 2020
Title of the Presentation: Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim: The Rewriting of History and Diasporic insight 
Organizer: School of Humanities Universiti Sains Malaysia
Keynote Speaker(s): Bill Ashcroft, Emeritus Professor, School of English, Media and Performing Arts
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Professor Dato’ Seri Dr. Md. Salleh Yappar, Comparative Literature, Universiti Sains Malaysia

3. Conference/Date(s): International Conference on Entangled Englishes/ 2-4 September 2021
Title of the Presentation: Transcreation of Language on the Screen: A Critique of Tanvir Mokammel’s Lalshalu as an Intersemiotic Translation of Syed Walliullah’s Lalshalu.
Organizer: Center for Language Studies (CLS) & Department of English and Humanities,
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Dhaka, Bangladesh  
Keynote Speaker(s): Professor Alastair Pennycook
Professor Emeritus, University of Technology, Sydney and Research Professor, MultiLing Centre at the University of Oslo

Conference Attended as Session Chair

Conference Title: 2nd International Conference on Refugee, Resistance and Recognition: Global Literary Representations in [Post] post-colonial perspectives/   24-25 February 2023

Organizer: Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Keynote Speaker(s): 
Professor Nandi Bhatia, PhD 
Western University
Canada 

Dr. Prabhjot Parmar 
University of the Fraser Vally
British Columbia, Canada

Achievements

Member, Modern Language Association (MLA), Member No. 550789

Education Board Scholarship, Jessore Education Board -2000

Department Annual Scholarship; Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet (2003-2009)

Significant Conferences Attended

01. Metropolitan University Research Conference 2012/ 31 March 2012
Metropolitan University, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Keynote Speaker(s):
Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal PhD (Renowned Author)
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet 

2. International Conference on Postcolonial Perspectives: Language, Literature and Culture and the Global South/ 14-15 February, 2020
Department of English, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 
Keynote Speaker(s):
Bill Ashcroft
Emeritus Professor, School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
&
Professor Dr. Fakrul Alam, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Interests

Translation Studies

Films based on literary texts

Plays of Henrik Ibsen

Comparative Literature

Writings of Syed Waliullah

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