Department of English MA in English Handbook

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Bangladesh is the Chancellor of EWU. The Vice Chancellor, the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Vision and Mission of East West and the Treasurer are appointees of the University President of the country in his capacity as , rated among the top the Chancellor of the University. private universities of Bangladesh, is an Location institution that promotes eastern culture and values and meaningfully blends eastern and The permanent campus of East West western thought and innovation. As an University is located in Aftabnagar, institution of higher learning that promotes Rampura on the ProgotiSarani close to BTV and inculcates ethical standards, values and Bhaban on 7.4 bighas of land. Total floor norms, East West University (EWU) is area of the 9 storied university complex is committed to the ideals of equal 4,58,957.04sft. East West University has opportunity, transparency and non- also bought 594.75 decimals (5.95 acres) of discrimination. The Primary mission of land at MoujaVadham, P.S. Tongi, District EWU is to provide, at a reasonable cost, Gazipur. In addition, it has received an tertiary education characterized by academic allotment of one bigha of land at Uttara from excellence in a range of subjects that are Rajuk. particularly relevant to current and Library anticipated social needs. Central to the university’s mission is its intention to East West University library has a collection provide students with opportunities, of over 25,487 volumes of books and the resources and expertise to achieve academic, full-texts of more than 132 journals can be personal and career goals within a freely accessed by faculty members, stimulating and supportive environment. teaching assistants, researchers, students and EWU is striving not only to maintain high staff of EWU. The EWU library has also quality in both instruction and research, it is access to more than 10,000 online journals. also rendering community service through dissemination of information, organization Students and faculty members have full of training programs and other activities. access to the library. Sensitive to the needs of its students and The Library offers open access to its staff, EWU is committed to providing a shelves. Books have a classified shelf humane, responsive and invigorating arrangement. atmosphere for productive learning and innovative thinking. The library utilizes CDS/ISIS, software developed by UNESCO, to provide Accreditation and Collaboration information. East West University is accredited by the Labs and Amenities Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, and its curricula and programs EWU provides its students with a clean, have been approved by the Bangladesh spacious and fully air-conditioned campus University Grants Commission. The with modern facilities. All classrooms have President of the People’s Republic of overhead projectors for the benefit of both

2 teachers and students. EWU also has seven make them interact to get to know each state-of-the-art Computer Laboratories. In other’s needs and priorities. Besides, the addition, the English Department has a largest job portal in Bangladesh, Writing Center to facilitate the learning of BDJobs.com, has established a linkage with English. Career Counseling Center to extend job services to East West graduates. Medical Center, attended by full-time doctors, provides health services for Scholarships everyone in the university. East West University offers merit EWU Center for Research and Training scholarships and need-based financial (EWUCRT) assistance to deserving students. Every semester the university distributes at least Recently, East West University Center for 8.20% of its total earnings among 20.58% or Research and Training (EWUCRT) has been more of its students. set up to create knowledge through academic and applied research and East West University Sexual Harassment disseminate the acquired knowledge through Elimination and Prevention Policy training & publication. The major functions East West University considers a position of EWUCRT are to conduct: academic against sexual harassment to be thoroughly research, training programs, consulting consistent with its overall mission and its research, publication seminars, symposium longstanding commitment to creating a and workshop. positive environment in order to achieve Career Counseling Center academic excellence for all. The Career Counseling Center provides  Features of the Policy- proper guidance to students about their o Defining Sexual Harassment. career plans. The center liaises with o Forming a Complaint prospective employers and arranges Committee. internships and jobs for students and o Providing transparent and graduates. neutral procedures. o Providing punishment to The Career Counseling Center works to perpetrators. place students with leading business  Extent of the Policy- organizations of the nation who can expand o Acts committed by students, their activities by utilizing fresh minds faculty members, officials, imbued with modern skills and expertise. As administrative staff members, a forerunner among private universities in applicants and visitors ( and Bangladesh, the center endeavors not only to their victims and ensure excellence in education but also to perpetrators) within the help students find suitable careers. The premise centre organizes job fairs, workshops and o Acts of sexual harassment seminars on a regular basis for both career- through use of cyber space. seeking individuals, participating companies and potential bodies who are employers to

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Co-curricular Activities Academic progress is reported using the In addition to academic activities, following grades: opportunities for different co-curricular activities are offered round the year. The A Excellent university has a number of clubs to promote B Good various extra-curricular activities. C Satisfactory D Pass These include: Business Club, Computer F Failed to meet minimum standards. Club, Cultural Club, Cine & Photography

Club, Debating Club, English Poetry & Drama Club, Electronics Club, English The following designators are used when the Conversation Club, Environmental & Social above letter grades do not apply: Club, Financial Analysis & Research Club,

MBA Club, Natural Science Club, I Incomplete Programming Club, Pharmacy Club, WV Waived Course Requirement Rotaract Club, Sports Club, TR Transfer Credit Telecommunications Club, Creative W Withdraw Marketing Club.

On Campus Employment Opportunities Cumulative Grade Point Averages (CGPA) EWU provides its students with on campus are calculated for all students and are based employment opportunities. The graduate on a 4.00 point scale. The numerical students can apply for the positions of equivalents of the grades are as follows: Teaching Assistantship (TA) or Research

Assistantship (RA), if they achieve a certain level of CGPA in the first semester. Numerical Letter Grade Grade Scores Point Contact Details Department Office: 97 – 100 A+ 4.00 Telephone: +880-2-09666775577 Ext. 217 90 – below A 4.00 Fax: +880-2-9897322 97 Department Secretary: Md. Jasim Uddin 87 – below A- 3.70 +880-2-09666775577 Ext. 207 90 Rules and Regulations 83 – below B+ 3.30 87 Grading Policy 80 – below B 3.00 EWU is committed to high academic 83 standards in keeping with real world demands for excellence. 77 – below B- 2.70 80 Academic performance is evaluated using a full range of grades from 'A' through 'F'. 73 – below C+ 2.30

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77 to retake a particular course only once with any grade he/she earned previously. 70 – below C 2.00 73 A student with ‘F’ Grade(s) in a course(s) may retake the same any number of times to 67 – below C- 1.70 pass within the time limit allowed for 70 Graduation. In case of repeating a course 63 – below D+ 1.30 due to ‘F’ grade, the ‘F’ grade of previous 67 attempt(s) will be converted to ‘R’ grade and the grade of last attempt will be counted 60 – below D 1.00 in CGPA. 63 A student using the advantage of Retake below F 0.00 Policy shall not be eligible for getting Gold 60 Medal/Award/Distribution. F* Failure 0.0 Incomplete (I) Grade I** 0.0 Incomplete (I) grade is granted only in Incomp 0.0 exceptional cases, such as, when illness or lete work-related travel is documented and when 0.0 W** substantial course requirements have already Withdra been completed. Students must seek wal approval from the instructor prior to the regularly scheduled final examination. If R** Repeat remaining course work has not been completed by the end of week 1 of the next

semester, grade 'I' automatically becomes * Credits for courses with this grade do not grade 'F'. apply towards graduation.

** Credits for courses with these grades do The student has the sole responsibility to not apply towards graduation and are not take the initiative in making up the used for the requirements for the incomplete grade as calculation of the grade point average. specified by the instructor. If action is not

taken within one week of the Additional courses are not counted in GPA commencement of the next semester, the “I” and CGPA Calculation grade will automatically be converted to

“F”, otherwise, the “I” grade will revert to Retake Policy the tentative final grade (the final grade A student will be allowed to retake as many becomes an “F” if no tentative grade was courses as he/she wants, but students will be assigned). In the event where the instructor allowed from whom a student received an incomplete grade is not available, the disposition of the case involving an

5 incomplete grade resides with the respective cheating. Any student found to be cheating Dean of Faculty. will be reported to the Dean of concerned faculty by the relevant faculty member for Withdrawals disciplinary action. The grade "Withdrawal" (W) is assigned when a student officially drops a course within the date mentioned in the Academic DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Calendar for the semester. The amount of Vision of the Department refund is related to the date of withdrawal as indicated in the Academic Calendar. To achieve individual and collective excellence in academic practices and Probation professional competence. Students must maintain a minimum CGPA Introduction of 2.5 to remain in good standing. If the CGPA of a student falls below 2.5, she/he The English Department makes a balanced will be put on probation. combination of literature studies and applied linguistics. It acquaints students, on the one Dismissal hand, with the British, American, and world Students are dismissed from the program for literatures written in or translated into failure to make satisfactory academic English and on the other, linguistics and progress. Students failing to raise their language teaching. In order to keep students CGPA to 2.5 in two consecutive semesters abreast of the new developments in their after they were on probation will be disciplines, the Department constantly dismissed from the program. upgrades its syllabi and curricula. This department is among the oldest departments Time Limitations of East West University. It started in August Students are allowed up to five years from 1996. The Department currently offers a the date of initial enrolment to complete wide variety of undergraduate and graduate their degree requirements. Under certain courses in the English language, linguistics circumstances, the time limit may be and literature to about 500 students. extended upon request to the Academic Furthermore, it offers a number of Council. compulsory 'service' courses to all students of East West University, which aim at Academic Honesty developing the proficiency levels of the There is a policy of zero tolerance on students in four basic skills of languages i.e., cheating. Any form of cheating such as Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing copying any document or another person’s so that they can participate in their academic work, seeking or providing help to other activities in English effectively. students during tests, or adopting any other The Department of English offers both form of unfair means during exams, will undergraduate and graduate programs. At constitute grounds for disciplinary action. the graduate level students may go for an Instructors are expected to use reasonably MA in English with a concentration in either practical means of preventing and detecting

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Literature or ELT or they can opt for a a) Promote liberal humanitarian values separate MA in ELT program. (through the study of masterpieces of English and American literature),

non-native pieces written in or MA in English translated into English, cultural studies, Postcolonial studies etc. Our M. A. in English is mainly based on English, American and global Anglophone b) Polish and refine sensibilities, and literatures including current literary and cultivate an urbanism in manner and cultural theories and research. The program behaviour of students to prepare is designed to meet the specific needs of them as successful future students with diverse interests. leaders/civil administrators. Extensive writing is required in virtually all c) Strengthen the moral fabric of M.A. courses, with the expectation that students and develop their ability to students will learn to turn research and distinguish right from wrong. critical thinking into cogent arguments d) Promote the humanitarian cause in a expressed in a clear and professional style. materialistic world dominated by This focus on critical reading, analytical commercial motives. reasoning and lucid writing is central to the mission of the program, which helps to Specific: better prepare our students for Ph.D. The major specific objectives of the programs in national and international English Department Curriculum are institutions of higher studies. Moreover, to help students: English Studies, as a liberal arts discipline, has the mission to foster humanist values, a) Develop an excellent communication sensibility and ethics in our students. skill in English, which is the gateway to success in professional life Our English majors work in such diverse nowadays in the national and fields as teaching and education, law, editing international settings. and publishing, advertising and marketing, freelance and technical writing, research, b) Prepare good English language and corporate communications, and government literature teaching professionals to and public services. While studying in the cater for the need of skilled English program, some of our qualified students teachers at the tertiary level in enjoy generous financial support. All our Bangladesh, who will, in turn, help M.A. classes are offered in the evenings to train teachers for secondary and accommodate students with full-time jobs. primary levels. The general and specific objectives of the c) Train students as course curriculum program: designers for effective English language program in the country. General: d) Develop translation skills (for The general objectives are to help students: translating our art, literature and

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culture into English and translating program is selective. Admission forms are foreign literature, art, culture and available in the admission office. All good textbooks on different subjects prospective students should submit from English to Bangla. completed application forms within the deadline for submission. To apply for e) Impart knowledge and skills required admission, students must fulfill the criteria for working with the media e.g., as outlined below. news editor in TV and as sub-editor in newspapers. The minimum requirements for admission to MA in English program are as follows: f) Impart training in creative writing in English so that through their own 1. Minimum GPA of 2.50 in both SSC creative writings they can familiarize and HSC Examinations or foreign nationals with our culture. 2. Candidates must have passed Duration University of London and Cambridge GCE ‘O’ Level in at least  3 semesters: for 4 year English students five subjects and ‘A’ Level in at least  4 semesters: for 3 year BA (Hons.) two subjects. Only the best five subjects in ‘O’ Level and best two students in English. subjects in ‘A’ Level will be  Number of classes: One classes each considered. Out of these seven week for each course. subjects, a candidate must have at  Duration of each class: 3 hours. least 4Bs or GPA of 4.00 in the four subjects and 3 Cs or GPA of 3.5 in the remaining three subjects. (on the Course Load scale of A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2 and E=1) Minimum course load: 6 (six) Credits 3. BA (Hons.) in English from public Maximum course load: 15 (fifteen) credits. universities with a minimum 2nd class In special cases, permission from the office 4. BA in English from private of the Chairperson will be required. universities with a minimum CGPA of 2.50 Academic Schedule The academic year is divided into three Admission procedure semesters: Fall, Spring and Summer Applicants will be asked to sit for a written Duration of each semester is 14 weeks. test and an interview. A list of candidates found suitable will be sent to the admission committee for approval. ADMISSION Graduation Requirements Admission Requirements: Students are required to maintain a CGPA of Students are admitted in any of the three 2.5 throughout the program. Failing to semesters in a year. Admission to the MA maintain the required CGPA will lead to dismissal from the program. But students

8 will have a probation period of two courses a student wants to register for, but consecutive semesters to improve their may be paid in installments also in special CGPA. If students fail to raise their CGPA cases. to the required level within two consecutive semesters, they will not be allowed to continue with the MA program. Total credit requirements for the degree of MA in English Transfer of Credits & Course Waivers 1. For students with 4 year BA in English: Credits done at the MA level in other 36 credits recognized universities may be waived or Core courses: 5 (3x5) = 15 credits transferred only if the evaluation committee Elective courses: 5 (3x5) = 15 credits finds the course/courses equivalent to EWU Dissertation: = 6 credits MA course/ courses. In this regard, the minimum grade required for credit transfer 2. For students with 3 year Hons. in will be B- or equivalent marks and a English: 45 credits maximum of 25% credits will be allowed for Core courses: 7 (3x7) = 21 credits transfer. Elective courses: 6 (3x6) = 18 credits Students must complete a minimum of 27 *Dissertation: = 06 credits for 4-year background, and 36 credits for 3-year background at EWU to obtain the *Dissertation can be done in any one of MA degree. the following major areas: FINANCIAL INFORMATION English/ American/ Continental/ Commonwealth Students are required to pay initial admission, tuition, and computer lab fees. A student is eligible for dissertation if he or The current fee schedule is: she is able to maintain not less than 3.3 CGPA in all courses that s/he has taken Item Amount while continuing the MA coursework; in Admission Fee Tk. 15,000.00 addition, s/he has to obtain a 'B+' in Research Methodology course (ENG 507). Tuition Fee (Per Credit) Tk. 3,500.00 Usually one semester is allocated for Laboratory Fee (Per submitting the research work (a 6 credit Tk. 500.00 Semester) course) but one more semester can be offered if permitted by the authorities. Library Fee (Per Tk. 500.00 However, if one cannot finish within two Semester) semesters, they have to apply for readmission and continue the research for Student Activities Fee Tk. 510.00 the awarding of the degree. (Per Semester)

COURSES OFFERED Payment are usually made at the beginning of each semester according to the number of A. CORE COURSES

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ENG 501: Professional Communication ENG 519: Creative Writing ENG 502: Linguistic Theories (for 3 ENG 520: Contemporary American year English graduates) Literature ENG 503: Approaches and Methods of ENG 523: Advanced Literary Theory Language Teaching. (for 3 ENG 524: Special Studies year English graduates) ENG 525: The Language of Advertising ENG 504: Critical Discourse Analysis ENG 535: Language Acquisition ENG 506: Contemporary British Theories for EFL Literature ESL Contexts (for students who do not have ENG 507: Research Methods in (a) ELT background at undergraduate level.) It English Literature (b) ELT is the same course as ENG 411 of the ENG 522 : Modernism to undergraduate program. MA students taking Postmodernism this course may sit in class with ENG 411 of the undergraduate program) B. ELECTIVE COURSES:

ENG 505: Translation Studies: Theories and Practices C. ENG 599: Dissertation (Optional) ENG 508: Masterpieces of World A dissertation in any one of the following Literature major areas can be done: ENG 509: South Asian Writing in English Literature English American Literature ENG 510: Introduction to Feminist Continental Literature Studies Commonwealth Literature

ENG 511: English as a World COURSE DESCRIPTION: Language ENG 501: Professional Communication ENG 512: Current Issues in Language Teaching and Testing This course will enable students to explore the nature of writing in domains of ENG 514: Social Dynamics of professional communication. It will attempt Language Use to introduce students to a range of ENG 515: Designing Language Course, professional text types, namely Materials and Tests informational, persuasive, and argumentative discourse commonly found in ENG-516: English for the Media professional and business contexts. ENG 517: Practice Teaching Students can expect to become more ENG 518: Literary Stylistics sensitive to ways in which effective writers construct audiences, analyze audience needs,

10 and formulate goals and purposes of the documents they produce. It will include ENG 504: Critical Discourse Analysis business letters, notice, memos, project proposal, report and other types of official The aim of this course is to promote critical writings. thinking through critical analysis of actual discourse/texts. There are two major The course will also include an oral components to this course: (1) the component and cover such areas as theoretical section where students will be conducting and participating in meeting, introduced to the central ideas of critical seminars, symposiums, workshops and the discourse analysis: and (2) the practical like. section where students will be encouraged to analyse sample and actual discourse/text. Through developing individual awareness of ENG 502: Linguistic Theories the politics of language use, it is hoped that The aim of this course is to familiarize students will become even more competent students with some of the major ideas of readers and writers equipped to cope with Linguistics. It will cover historical the discourse encountered in everyday approach to the study of language, interactions. descriptive linguistics, the Prague school,

Structuralism, Saussure, American Structuralists, Chomsky, the London ENG 505: Translation Studies: Theories School, the functional and semantic and Practices approaches to the study of language, Firth, The aim of this course is to train students in Halliday, Malinowsky , and Sapir-Whorp the art of translation to meet the growing among others. need of translators in the present time. It covers recent theoretical developments in the art of translation, and focuses on the use ENG 503: Approaches and Methods of of theoretical insight in the practice of Language Teaching translating literary and non-literary texts The aim of this course is to prepare students from English to Bangla and vice-versa. as good language teachers by familiarizing Students will examine some works of them with theoretical and practical aspects translation; compare some translations with of language teaching. The course the original works, and they will be required emphasizes the importance of methodology to translate some short stories, poems, or in language teaching. It critically examines parts of some longer literary and non-literary Audiolingual Method, Communicative texts from English to Bangla and vice-versa. Method, The Natural Approach, Total Works to be used as references are: Physical Response and Suggestopedia. It Kaiser Haq's translation of Tagore's novella, will cover areas such as appropriate Quartet (Chaturanga), methodology, learning style, learning Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak’s translations of context, and discuss appropriate approaches 's fiction and methods in Bangladesh.

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New Oxford series of the translation of results, using reference tools, Tagore’s short stories. documentation, and searching the internet. Zillur Rahman Siddiqui's translation of ENG 508: Masterpieces of World Milton’s Areopagitica Literature Translation of Eugene O Neil's Long Days Journey into Night This course consists of literary masterpieces from World Literature. Translated works are ENG 506: Contemporary British also included. Authors include Nadine Literature Gordimer, Naquib Mahfouz, Gabriel GarcíaMárquez, Pablo Neruda, Albert This course includes some recent British Camus, J.M. Coetzee, Günter Grass, authors to familiarize students with the Czeslaw Milosz and Octavio Paz. The recent trends in English literature, and to Norton Anthology of World Literature help students understand the recent literature Volumes A. B. and C will be extensively of the preceding times. Authors will include: used in the class room William Golding : Rites of Passage The course emphasizes the study and J.G. Farrell : The Seige of Krishnapur consideration of the literary, cultural, and Paul Scott : Staying On human significance of selected great works David Lodge : Changing Places of the Western and non-Western literary Muriel Spark : The Prime of Miss Joan traditions. An important goal of the class is Brodie to promote an understanding of the works in A.S. Byatt : Possession their cultural/historical contexts and of the Harold Pinter : Remembrance of Things enduring human values which unite the Past different literary traditions. The course's Tom Stoppard : Arcadia pedagogy gives special attention to critical Selected poems of Seamus Heaney, Philip thinking and writing within a framework of Larkin, Fleur Adcock, and V.A. Fanthrope cultural diversity as well as comparative and

interdisciplinary analysis ENG 507: Research Methods in (a)

English Literature (b) ELT (40 to 50 pages) ENG 509: South Asian Writing in English The course aims at introducing students to This course will focus on writings from the the approaches and methods of research in South Asian sub-continent and its diaspora. linguistics, ELT/Applied Linguistics and Working from an expanded definition of literature. It will examine some research writing as the attempt to draw new maps of papers, articles and dissertation, and find out reality, we will look at fiction, poetry, the approaches and methods employed in political manifestos, theoretical discussions, those studies. It will cover the different steps socio-historical accounts, and films by South such as selecting the title, doing literature Asian writers. We will examine the ways review, writing an outline, drafting, editing, these writings intervene in and energize data collection, data analysis, presenting postcolonial culture in South Asia and beyond by forging an aesthetic and political

12 practice that involves a radical critique of This course will survey the social and gender arrangements. In particular, we will linguistic characteristics and roles of English explore the ways writers use narrative in societies around the world. The effects of traditions such as folklore, fable, memoir, the different ways in which English has been and myth to give voice to their unique learnt and transmitted are considered. A historical, cultural, and political major concern of the course will be to perspectives. We will also trace the play of increase students’ understanding of the irony, parody, and mimicry as writers figure English used in the Indian sub-continent in the ambivalence of their position as women, the context of world English. especially around issues of modernity, sexuality, religion, nation, and development. Writers will include Meena Alexander, ENG 512: Current Issues in Language Bharati Mukherjee, Kamila Shamsie, Bapsi Teaching and Testing Sidhwa, Kamala Markandaya, Sara Suleri, Hanif Kureishi, Jean Arasanayagam and This course will introduce students to the Zulfiqar Ghose. concept of culture and context sensitive pedagogy, to constraints-based curriculum, ENG 510: Introduction to Feminist materials, and testing. It will examine issues Studies such as learning style preferences, learners' and teachers’ beliefs, attitudes, and This course explores gender issues and experiences, and cultural issues in language women’s experiences, cultures, traditions learning, and also the recent developments and achievements in the arts and humanities. in teaching learning theories. Students will be introduced to relevant feminist theories, goals, and concepts—and ENG 514: Social Dynamics of Language their historical roots in women’s movements Use and social activism--which have stimulated the development of academic studies of This course provides an introduction to the women and gender. Over the past thirty theoretical and methodological foundations years, such studies have generated a of the study of social variations of English. substantial body of new or revised It will study ways in which variations in knowledge of women and gender previously language carry social meaning for neglected or de-valued in traditional individuals in such categories as class, academic disciplines and professional fields. gender, social networks, and age. Topics Authors will include Tsitsi Dangarembga, covered comprise basic sociolinguistic Edwidge Danticat, Maryse Conde, Buchi concepts such as linguistic variants: speech Emecheta, Shashi Deshpande, Sandra community: social network: diglossia: Cisneros, Louise Edridge, Mahasweta Devi, pidgin; and Creole; language attitudes; norm Yasmine Gooneratne. language standardization; the role of language in the construction of social, ethical and gender identity and in the representation of social stereotypes. It will ENG 511: English as a World Language make connections between the varieties of English used (e.g. formal and informal,

13 standard or non-standard, UK, U.S.A., art of newscasting with emphasis on Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, or pronunciation, stress, intonation, confidence, Indian English, contemporary English or and naturalness. Shakespeare’s English) and the contexts in ENG 517: Practice Teaching which it is found, and suggest that there is geographical and historical contexts. The The purpose of this course is to prepare social contexts will also be expanded to students as effective ESL teachers. include notions of cooperation, power and Developments in teaching the different language acquisition. The geographical and major skills and their sub-skills will be historical contexts will be expanded to discussed in detail and students will be include the notion of language spread. It will required to operate in actual classroom also introduce students to the phenomenon situations. The course incorporates different of language contact. It will explore teaching methods and their pedagogical sociolinguistic conditions of language and implications. Students will be required to language use, and how these conditions lead implement theoretical insights they received to contract-induced linguistic changes. about approaches and methods of language and literature teaching in real teaching. 515: Designing Language Course, Materials and Tests ENG 518: Literary Stylistics This course aims at providing practical This course aims to introduce students to training in evaluating and designing English the analysis of literary texts by using language course, materials and tests using linguistic and discourse analytical tools. A the theoretical insights students developed functional grammar and speech act approach from their undergraduate courses on will be used for stylistic analysis. Students syllabus, materials and testing. will analyze literary works by examining the various linguistic features and using ENG 516: English for the Media pragmatic concepts. This paper seeks to train students in ENG 519: Creative Writing journalistic writings such as short news reports with catching captions/headings, This course aims to train students in creative subtitling, translating reports obtained from writing by familiarizing them with some of foreign news agencies, preparing long the basic underlying principles, and the reports for the press or electronic media, recent theoretical developments in creative writing special features for the media, and writings. It will introduce students to the editing. It will focus on both objective elements of the different genres of creative reporting or distancing the self from the writing Focus will be more on writing report and subjective reporting or taking a autobiography, short stories and poems. For position while reporting. The course will short stories, the course will train students in also train students to take active part in press such aspects as plotting or plot making, briefing/conferences and prepare reports on selecting a setting, characterization, the briefings, interview persons, conduct developing a theme, and techniques of surveys and prepare reports for the media. storytelling, For poems, students will have The course will also include training in the practice in selecting themes, choosing

14 diction, using the right mood, tone, rhyme understanding and evaluating theories of and rhythm. The course will include reading contemporary culture. The literary works of books and articles on creative writing. It that will be studied are: will involve students in writing short stories, Jessica Hagedorn: Dogeaters, or Dangerand poems and autobiography. Beauty, or The Gangster of Love ENG 520: Contemporary American Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Literature Years of Solitude or Strange Pilgrims or The Chronicle of Death Foretold This paper includes American literature of Toni Morrison: Paradise the recent times to familiarize students with Richard Powers: Prisoner's Dilemma, or the recent trends in American literature, and Operation Wandering Soul to make them understand these trends in Paul Auster: Blue in the Face, or Leviathan relation to American literature of the William Gibson: Virtual Light, or Monalisa preceding times. Authors will include: Thomas Pynnchon: The Crying of Lot 49 Toni Morison: Beloved; Sula Maxine Hong Kingsto: The Woman Warrior [Note: More than one titles of each author Carmac McCarthy: Suttree, Blood Meridian. are mentioned in the course because the Robert Pack: Minding the Sun, texts might not be available. Any one work Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones): Selected poems by each author will be taught. The course David Mammet: American Buffalo: A teacher will select the text according to its PlayPaul Theroux’: Mosquito Coast availability] David Kennedy: Ironweed

Selected Poems from A Pouline (ed.) Contemporary American Poetry, 6th edition. ENG 523: Advanced Literary Theory

This course introduces an in-depth study ENG 522: Modernism to Postmodernism into the field of literary theory, a central component of contemporary literary studies. This course is an introduction to the This course embarks on with a genealogy of philosophical ideas that have shaped the theoretical paradigms, beginning in the early practice of contemporary art, criticism, and 20th Century when literary theory first cultural studies in the West. We begin with flourished as a formal discipline; which is an examination of some historical problems then followed by discussion on the evolution that have arisen in thinking about art. Then and development in the field of the present we survey the various systems that day. As this is Advanced Literary Theory constitute Modernist cultural "theory", course, it selects its topics from including formalism, phenomenology, contemporary theories and practices, such as Marxism, Structuralism, semiotics and theory on Psychoanalysis, Graphic novels, psychoanalysis. These modernist theories Media, Marxism, Postcolonialism, are compared to poststructuralist and Feminism, Ecocriticism, Films and feminist views of art production and Adaptations, etc. reception. The overall objective of this study is to provide the necessary background for ENG 524: Special Studies

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This course is meant for students who want to study a special area of their choice under ENG 599: Dissertation (6 Credits) the guidance of a teacher who has an expertise in that area. It might include the The dissertation forms an important part of study of a special author, a special period, a the assessment for this program and particular area of language, linguistics or integrates the different components of the ELT. MA program. It provides students with an opportunity to explore a particular area in ENG 525: The Language of Advertising depth, constitutes an introduction to the This course examines the linguistic and conduct of research and systematic inquiry, semiotic elements of advertisements as well and introduces students to the problem of as the mechanics of advertising. In analysing handling an extended piece of written the discourse of advertising, students will research work. learn how the powers of verbal and visual The dissertation consists of an extended language in advertisements influence the piece of written research work, a minimum target audience and society at large. of 15,000 words, or approximately 40 to Students investigating the interpretation and 50 pages. It can be on any topic within messages conveyed through different media English literature, which can be negotiated will experience the critical and creative with the supervisor concerned and agreed by process of (de)constructing and analysing the program co-ordinator. Students will be advertising texts. Furthermore, this course asked to select the general area within which will focus on the use of manipulative and they wish to conduct their dissertation, and discriminatory language (discourse) in they will be required to submit a dissertation advertising, with respect to the socio- proposal. They will then be allocated an cultural, ethical and legal issues in the glocal appropriate supervisor with whom they will (global and local) context. define their topic.

The dissertation equips students with the ENG-535: Language Acquisition Theories ability to handle large-scale work, as well as in EFL/ESL Contexts to engage in research projects of their own design. However, it is optional for students. This course introduces students to the different theories of language acquisition, The dissertation must be submitted by the and to interlanguage, universal linguistics, last day of the final examination week of a and error analysis theories and talks about student's last semester. their relevance in teaching English as a foreign/second language. (This course is meant for students who have not done ELT FACULTY MEMBERS courses at undergraduate level. It is the same course as ENG 411 of the undergraduate The MA courses will be taught by highly program. MA students taking this course qualified teachers with degrees and training will sit with undergraduate students of ENG obtained overseas. Currently, the following 411) faculty members are teaching MA courses:

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DR. FAKRUL ALAM DR. MUHAMMED SHAHRIAR HAQUE UGC Professor at the Professor

He retired as Professor of English at the Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Malaya, University of Dhaka on June 30, 2017 and Malaysia as Pro-Vice Chancellor, East West MSS in Media and Communication University on May 30, 2019. His (specialization in film studies), Independent publications include University Bangladesh, Bangladesh and National Identity Formation in M.A. in English Language, University Putra Bangladesh: Essays and Reviews (Dhaka: Malaysia, Malaysia , 2013); The Essential M.A. in English (Literature), University of Tagore (Boston: Harvard UP and Viswa Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh Bharati: Kolkata, 2011; with Radha B.A. (Honours) in English (Literature), Chakravarty); Imperial Entanglements and University of Chittagong, Bangladesh Literature in English (writer’s ink: Dhaka, 2007); South Asian Writers in Research interests: critical discourse English (Detroit: Thomson Gale, analysis (CDA), film and media studies, 2006); Jibanananda Das: Selected teacher education, educational technology, Poems (Dhaka: University Press Limited, and photojournalism 1999); Bharati Mukherjee (Twayne's United States Authors Series. New York: Twayne Selected publications: Publishers, 1995). His translation of ’s Unfinished Memoirs was  Haque, M. S. (2017). Early life of an published in 2012 by University Press in accidental actor: Before Nayak Raj Bangladesh, Penguin Books in India, and Razzak. In East West Journal of Oxford University Press in Pakistan. He Humanities, Vols. 6 & 7 Special Issue, received the SAARC Literature Award 2012 pp. 121-136 at the SAARC Literature Festival of 2012 held at Lucknow India on 18 March 2012.  Haque, M. S. (2015). Documentary- He was awarded the Bangla Academy Making Methodology: Step-by-step Puroshkar (Literature Award) in the Documentation of Life after Grey. In Translation Category for 2013 on February East West Journal of Humanities, Vol. 24, 2013. His translations of Ocean of 5, pp. 73-91 Sorrow, the late nineteenth century Bengali epic narrative, Bishad Sindhu by Mir  Haque, M. S. and Akhter, M.(2014). Mosharraf Hussain and Sheikh Mujibur Challenges and Possibilities of Rahman’s Prison Diaries, both published by Computer Assisted Language Teaching Bangla Academy in November 2016 and in Higher Education: Bangladesh in February 2018 are among his most recent Focus. In Harvest: Jahangirnagar book publications. Among his forthcoming Studies in Language and Literature, works is “The English Writings of Vol. 29, pp. 129-149. Rabindranath Tagore” in The Cambridge Companion to English Tagore, ed. Sukanta  Haque, M. S. (2013). Discourse Chaudhuri (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Structures in Bangladeshi Educational 2019). Advertisements: A Critique. In East

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West Journal of Humanities, Vol. 4, pp.  Haque, M. S. and Malik, M. Z. (2005). 1-28. ‘Humour in Haq: Poems in Sub- continental English’. In Talif, R., Heng,  Haque, M. S. (2008). ‘Institutional C. S., Eng, W. B., Abdullah, A. N. and Elitism: Critical Discourse Analysis of Noor. R. (eds.) Beyond Barriers Fresh Private Educational Institutions’. In Frontiers: Selected Readings on Crossings: ULAB Journal for English Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Studies, Vol. 1. Serdang: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, pp 105-111.  Haque, M. S. and Baki, R. (2012). In Quest of the Marginalized English Language Skills: A Qualitative DR. MORIAM QUADIR Expedition. International Journal of Associate Professor Linguistics and Literature (IJLL), Vol.1, Ph. D. in Applied Linguistics, Hiroshima Issue 1, pp. 27-46. University, Japan

M. A. in Applied Linguistics, Hiroshima  Haque, M. S. and Abedin, Z. (2011). University, Japan The discursive construction of (a)moral M. A. in English, University of Dhaka. names: Religion versus language, Bangladesh Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural B. A. in English, University of Dhaka. and Interlanguage Communication. Bangladesh Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, Vol. 30, No. 3-4, pp. 377-390. Research interests: L2 learners’ individual  Haque, M. S. (2008). ‘Kee's World: differences (ID), learner autonomy, Reflections of Evolving Identity’. In innovative teaching approaches, and International Journal of Comic Art, academic writing. Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring-2008, pp. 482- 512. Selected Publications:  Haque, M. S. (2008). ‘Discursive  Quadir Mst. Moriam (2019). Construction of an Identity in Conflict: Exploring English Language CDA Perspective’. In Nair, R., Haque, Learning Demotivation in M. S. & Khan, M. H. (Eds.). Bangladesh.THT Journal, 7 (1), pp. Constructing Identities in the Malaysian Media. Kuala Lumpur: University 33-50. Malaya Press.  Quadir Mst. Moriam (2017). Let Us  Haque, M. S. (2006). ‘Media Listen to Our Students: An Analysis Discourse: Television News as a form of Demotivation to Study English in of Entertainment / Popular Culture’. In Bangladesh. The English Teacher, 3, David, M. K., Burhanudeen, H. & pp. 128-141. Abdullah, A. N. (ed.) The Power of Language and the Media. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. pp. 99-114.  Quadir Mst. Moriam (2014). Relationships between learners’

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motivation factors and speaking Chapter Research Bulletin, 3, pp.71- strategy factors to learn oral 86. communication in English. The English Teacher, 3, pp. 113-135. Quadir Mst. Moriam (2005). Speaking strategy use by the EFL students in Japan  Quadir Mst. Moriam (2011). A and Bangladesh. Journal of International comparative study of English and Development and Co-operation, 12, pp.33- non-English major university 47. students’ motivation to learn English oral communication. East West DR. FARZANA AKHTER Journal of Humanities, 2, pp. 91- Associate Professor 111. Ph.D. in English with a secondary emphasis  Quadir Mst. Moriam (2009). Do in Rhetoric and Composition, University of English and non-English major Arkansas, Fayetteville, U.S.A., May 2017 university students use the same EFL M Phil. in English, University of Dhaka, speaking strategies in Bangladesh? Bangladesh, 2008 Asian English Studies, 11, pp. 49-68. M.A. in English Literature, University of

Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1997  Quadir Mst. Moriam (2008). A study on English and non-English major B.A. in English, University of Dhaka, university students’ motivation to Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1996 learn spoken English in Bangladesh. JACET Chugoku- Shikoku Chapter Areas of Interest Research Bulletin, 5, pp.39-56. Rhetoric and Composition, Ethnic and Immigrant American Literature, Orientalism  Quadir Mst. Moriam (2008). A study and post-colonial subjectivity, Diaspora and on motivation and strategy use of belongingness

Bangladeshi university students to learn spoken English. Journal of Major Publications International Development and Co-  Akhter, Farzana. “Negotiating the Politics operation,14, pp.51-66. of Power: Tahmima Anam’s The Good

Muslim and Women’s Role in War and  Tadashi Nishida and Quadir Mst. Nation Building.” Asiatic: IIUM Journal Moriam (2006). A Comparative of English Language and Literature, vol. study of speaking strategy use of 12, no. 1, June 2018, pp. 93-107, EFL college students in Japan and http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index. Bangladesh. [JACET (Japan php/AJELL/article/view/1211. Association of College English Teachers) Chugoku- Shikoku  Akhter, Farzana. “Performing Brecht in Bangladesh: Making the Unfamiliar

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Familiar.” Brecht in/and Asia /Brecht ZOHUR AHMED in/und Asien: The Brecht Yearbook / Assistant Professor Brecht-Jahrbuch no. 36, edited by Markus Wessendorf and Friedemann PhD (ongoing) (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia) Weidauer, 2011, pp. 201-210. M.Phil in English language Education

(Central Institute of English and Foreign  Akhter, Farzana. “Shattering the Languages, Hyderabad, India) Shackles: Brecht’s Plays and the M.A. in TESL (Central Institute of English Language of Political Protest in and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India) Bangladesh.” Literary Paritantra, vol. 2, B.A. in English (Aligarh Muslim University, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 65-71. U.P. India)

 Akhter, Farzana. “Quest for Home in Research interests: Computer Assisted Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace.” Language Learning, Second Language Spectrum, vol. 5, December 2007, pp. 81- Writing and Speaking Pedagogy, Language 90. Testing and Evaluation, Materials Production and Curricular Innovation,  Akhter, Farzana. “Reculturizing Brecht.” English for Specific Purposes Spectrum, vol. 4, June 2006, pp. 27-40. Publications:

Encyclopedic Reference  Karim, A., Ahmed, Z., Shahed, F. H., “Archie.” Comics through Time: A Rahman, M.M. & Mohammed, A.R. Historical Encyclopedia. Edited by (2019). Challenges affecting the M. Keith Booker, ABC CLIO: Santa implementation of £50 million in-service Barbara, CA, U.S.A., 2014. training program for English teachers in Bangladesh. The Qualitative Report, Email: [email protected] 24(10), 2457-2485.

 Rahman, M.M., Singh, M.K.M, Johan, SHAFIQUR RAHMAN M. & Ahmed, Z. (2019) English Medium Assistant Professor Instruction Ideology, Management and Practices: A Case Study on a M.A. (University of Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A) Bangladeshi Private University. English M.A. & B.A. (Honours) (University of Teaching & Learning. (in press) Dhaka)  Ahmed, Z (2018, November). Effects of Research interests: Composition and Writing in a Class Blog on EFL CMC- Computer-mediated composition, Students’ Attitude towards Writing, In English and American Romantic Literature, Proceeding of the 11th International Victorian Prose and Poetry, Elizabethan and Research Association for Jacobean Drama, Writing across the Media Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) Conference (pp 339-345), Beltsville, Maryland, 20705, USA. ISSN 2578- 8574, ISBN 978-1-945298-16-5

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 Ahmed, Z. (2018). Rhetoric and realities Research interests: ELT, Second Language of ICT applications in teaching English Acquisition (SLA), Materials Development literature. In Angadi, D. T., Patil, S.D.G., and Teacher Education. & Kedaranath (Eds.), Indian Indigenous Insights into Language, Literature & Selected Publications: Culture. 13-20. ISBN 978-81-931871-8-  Jahan, A. (2018). Impact of Textual 0 Enhancement on Bangladeshi Learner’s Noticing and Grammatical Development  Uddin, J., & Ahmed, Z. (2015). Impact of Present Perfect and Past Simple of the use of rubrics on the performance Tenses. Malaysian Journal of ELT of students. Chaos, 3(1), 46-62. ISSN 2304-3792 Research (MaJER), 15(1), pp. 1-16, ISSN 1511- 8002.  Ahmed, Z. (2014). Writing in a class blog: Why, when and how. In  Jahan, A. (2016-2017). Impact of Task Karunakaran, T. (Ed.) English Language Repetition on a Bangladeshi Tertiary Teaching in the Twenty First Century: Learner’s Oral Performance: A Case Issues and challenges. 38-54. ISBN 978- Study. HARVEST: Jahangirnagar 955-659-437-9 University Studies in language and  Ahmed, Z. & Karunakaran, T. (2013). Literature, 32, 71- 86, ISSN 1729-8326 Teaching writing: an analysis of the writing tasks used at East West  Jahan, A. & Kormos, J. (2015). The University in Bangladesh. Languages in impact of textual enhancement on EFL India, 13 (3), 103-117. ISSN 1930-2940 learners' grammatical awareness of future plans and intentions. International  Karunakaran, T. & Ahmed, Z. (2013). Journal of Applied Linguistics, Teaching writing. International Journal 25(1), 46–66. doi: 10.1111/ijal.12049 of English Language and Literature, 55- 61. ISSN 2347-2642  The Hornby Scholar’s Panel  Ahmed, Z. (2012). [Review of the book Presentation: ELT in action: what works Teacher Training Essentials by C. and what makes it work in different Thaine]. ELTAI Journal, 8, 100-102. contexts. (2012). In T. Pattison ISSN 2250-317X (Ed.),IATEFL 2012 Glasgow Conference Selections (pp. 158- 161). Kent: DR. AKHTER JAHAN Pilgrims.

Assistant Professor

PhD in English Language Studies, International Islamic University Malaysia MA TESOL, University of Lancaster (Hornby Scholar - 2011-2012)

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 Jahan, A. (2012). Residual Cultural  Jahan, A. (2008). Teaching Speaking Imperialism in Primary Textbooks in Skills at Tertiary Level in Bangladesh: A Critique of the Bangladesh: An Empirical English for Today Textbooks, East Investigation, Daffodil International West Journal of Humanities, 3, 73- University Journal of Business and 96. ISSN 2024-6628. Economics, 3(1), 155-171.

 Rahman, F. M., & Akhter J. (2011). MASRUFA AYESHA NUSRAT Training English Teachers from Difficult and Rural Contexts in Assistant Professor Bangladesh. In P. Gunashekhar, A. MA in English Studies (University of Padwad& D. Pawelec Nottingham, UK) (Eds.),Starting, Stimulating and MA in English & BA (Honours) in English Sustaining English Language Literature Teacher education and development: (University of Dhaka) A selection of papers presented at Areas of Interest the International Conference in Women Writing, South Asian Literature, Hyderabad in January 2011(pp. 86- Feminism, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial 92).India: British Council. Studies and Literary Translations.

 Jahan, A., & Nusrat J. (2011). Major Publications Working with Vocabulary at Tertiary Masrufa Ayesha Nusrat’s translations and Level in Bangladesh, Journal of creative writing appeared in the following Education and Practice, 2(5), 45-57, literary journals and anthologies – The ISSN 2222-1735 (Paper) & ISSN Woman Who Ate Cooking Pots (2018); 2222-288X (Online) Stories from the Edge: Personal Narratives of the Liberation War (2017); Alice Munror  Jahan, A. (2008). Promoting Nirbachito Golpo (2016); The Book of Collaboration in Mixed Ability EFL Dhaka (2016); Spiders and Other Stories (2016); Bengal Lights (2015); A Classrooms at Tertiary Level in Temporary Sojourn and Other Bangladesh, Journal of NELTA, Stories (2015); Lilies, Lanterns and 13(1-2), 49-56. Lullabies (2014); The Missing Slate (2014 & 2013); The Dawn of the Waning  Jahan, A., & Nusrat J. (2008) Moon (2012); parabaas.com (2011); Conte Teaching Presentation Skills to mporary Short Stories from Bangladesh (2010); Writing Across Tertiary Students in Bangladesh, Borders (2008); Under the Krishnachura Stamford Journal of English, 4, 38- Tree: Fifty Years of Bangladeshi 57. Writing (2004); and Spectrum (1997)

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Ms. Nusrat has published some research Philip Whyte. Rennes: Presses articles in the special issue of South Asian Universitaires de Rennes, 2013. Cultural Studies (SACS), Imaging South Asian Culture in Non-English:  Alam, Manzur.“Capitalism, “Hybrid Reconstructing Popular Textual and Visual Wars” and Confiscated Narratives: The Presentations (May 2018); ELT Worldwide: Classico-Postmodernist Imperialism of Journal of English Language Our Time”. East West Journal of Teaching (2015); Panini (2007- Humanities,Dhaka, Vol.3, 2012. 2011); Harvest (2004); and South Asian Literature in English: An  Alam, Manzur. “Of Paradoxes and Encyclopedia (2004). Misrepresentations: The Enigma of Identity in V. S. Naipaul’s Half a Life and Masrufa is also single author of Celebration Magic Seeds”. Harvest: Jahangirnagar and Other Stories (2015), an anthology of short stories in English translation by Studies in Language and Literature, contemporary women writers from Dhaka, Vol. 26, 2011. Bangladesh.  Alam, Manzur. “Democracy’s Captain ______and Mahatma: Morality and Human Rights.” Abraham Lincoln Without

Borders: Lincoln’s Legacy Outside the MANZUR ALAM (on leave) United States. Eds. JyotirmayaTripathy, Assistant Professor Sura P. Rath and William D. Pederson. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2010. Pursuing PhD in the USA 67- 77. MA in English & BA (Honours) in English Literature  Alam, Manzur. “Coming to Terms with India: V.S. Naipaul’s Quest for his (University of Dhaka) Roots”. Spectrum, Journal of the Areas of Interest Department of English, University of Dhaka, Vol. 4, June 2006. 154- 163. Postcolonial Studies; 20th Century British and American Literature; Diaspora Literature; Cultural Studies; Literature and ISRAT JAHAN Environment; Political Discourses Assistant Professor Major Publications MA in English Literature (Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka)  Alam, Manzur. “Victime de BA in English (Jahangirnagar University, l’impérialisme?Ou comment réévaluer Savar, Dhaka) Naipaul” (French version of the article“‘A Casualty of Imperialism?’ Areas of Interest Reevaluating Naipaul” translated by Postcolonial Literature, Critical Theory, Cécile Girardin).Continuité, classicisme, Latin American Literature, American conservatismedans les littératures Literature, Film and Literature postcoloniales.Eds. Cécile Girardin and Major Publications

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 Jahan, I. (2018).”Comparative Studies American Literature; Feminism; Cultural on Films: Scopes of Digital Studies. Humanities”. Asian Journal of English Studies (AJES), 7. (1). 175-183. Major Publications  Jahan, I. (2017). “Novel: Death or  Hasan, S. N. (2017). Comics and Graphic Resurrection of Storytelling”. South Novels: Counter Narratives to Cultural Asian Review, 38. (2). 89-101. Products. Crossings, 8, 68-77.  Jahan, I. (2016). “Documentation of

History through Storytelling”. International Journal on English  Hasan, S. N. (2016). Woody Allen’s Language, Literature and Translation Auteurism: Adaptation as Production in Studies (IJELR), Vol.3. Issue.4 (Oct- Blue Jasmine. Harvest, 31, 45-56. Dec.), P. 500-508. ISSN: 2395-2628 Print, 2345-9451(online).  Hasan, S. N. (2017). Elisa Allen:  Jahan, I. (2015). An Existential Reading of Family Ties. East West Journal of Steinbeck’s Unconventional Portrayal of Humanities. Vol.5, P 24-32. ISSN 2074- the Female Character in “The 6628. Chrysanthemums”. International Journal  Jahan, I. (2012).“Nationalism, of English Language, Literature and Syncretism, and the Enforcers of Translation Studies, 4(1), 55-59. History”. Asian Conference on Literature, P. 884-894. ISSN: 2186- 229X,  Hasan, S. N. (2014). Teaching http://www.iafor.org/acah_proceedings.h Vocabulary through Collaboration: tml. Students as Independent Readers. Journal  Jahan, I. (2012). “The Art of Existence of Education and Practice, 5(13), 60-68. and the Care of the Self in Family Ties”. Language, Literature and Linguistics, P MD ABU SHAHIS ABDULLAH, PhD 288-293. ISSN: 2251-3566. Assistant Professor  Jahan, I. (2010). “Real and Symbolic PhD in English Literature (University of Unable to Bridge the Gap between the Bamberg, Germany) World and Richard Wright”. Harvest: Jahangirnagar Study of Language and Literature, Vol-25, P. 99-109, ISSN European Joint Master’s Degree in English 17298326. and American Studies (University of Bamberg, Germany) SYEDA NADIA HASAN (on leave) Senior Lecturer BA (Honours) MA in English (Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Pursuing PhD in the USA Bangladesh) MA in English Literature (University of

Dhaka) Areas of Interest: BA in English (University of Dhaka) Postcolonial Literature, Trauma Literature, South Asian Literature, Diasporic Literature, Areas of Interest

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Race, Gender and Identity, Magical Realism, 10.5539/ells.v5n3p25 Magical Feminism, Ecocriticism

 Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Muslims in Major Publications: Pre- and Post-9/11 Contexts.”

 Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Construction International Journal of Comparative of Home, Nation and Identity in Literature & Translation Studies 3.3 Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from (2015): 52-59. Firozsha Baag.” Shanlax doi:10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.3n.3p.52 International Journal of English 7.4 (2019): 18-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34293/  Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Rewriting english.v7i4.626 Rural Community and Dictatorial History through Magical Realism in  Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Variations in Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Middle English Local Surnames.” Solitude.” Journal of Language and XLinguae: European Scientific Language Cultural Education 3.2 (2015): 86-102. Journal 10.4 (2017): 209-222. DOI: DOI: 10.1515/jolace-2015- 0014 10.18355/XL.2017.10.04.17

 Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Salman  Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Healing Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children: Trauma and Reasserting Identity Connection between Magical Realism through Remembrance in Joanne and Postcolonial Issues.” International Fedler’s The Dreamcloth.” Prague Journal of English and Education 3.4 Journal of English Studies 6.1 (2017): (2014): 341-350. http://ijee.org/ 79-92. DOI: 10.1515/pjes-2017-0005 yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/27_L.2 65144232.pdf

 Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Fluids, ZAHID HOSSAIN Cages, and Boisterous Femininity: The Grotesque Transgression of Senior Lecturer Patriarchal Norms in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus.” Journal of MA in TESOL (Lancaster University, UK – Language and Cultural Education 5.2 Hornby Scholar – 2007 -08) (2017): 114-122. DOI: MA in Applied Linguistics & ELT (Dhaka 10.1515/jolace-2017-0022 University) BA (Hons) in English (Dhaka University)

 Abdullah, Abu Shahid. “Speaking the Research interests: Instructed second Unspoken: Rewriting Identity Loss and language acquisition, corpus linguistics, Memory of Slavery through Magical critical discourse analysis, second language Realism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” writing and speaking, ELT methodologies English Language and Literature Publications: Studies 5.3 (2015): 25-32. doi:

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 Hossain, Z. (2013). A Corpus-based Study of Frequency and Syntactic Patterns in an EFL Textbook : The Case NOTABLE ALUMNI OF MA IN of Modal Auxiliary. In Spectrum. Vol 8 & ENGLISH: 9, 225-242. Dr. Rubana Huq

 Hossain, Z. (2007). Teaching Vocabulary President, BGMEA and Managing Director, Using News Report. A Reflection. In Mohammadi Group Stamford Journal of English. Vol 3, 74- 86. Farhana Islam Pursuing PhD in the USA Former Lecturer  Khan, Shahidul Islam, Hossain, Z. & Department of English Akter, R. (2005). Choosing an appropriate methodology for a large East West University class. In Stamford Journal of English. Vol 1, 145-150. Md. Zohorul Islam Lecturer (Literature), Department of English Green University of Bangladesh TARA SHANKAR SINHA Rahnuma Shabiba Senior Lecturer 'Translator & Interpreter' for the project MA in Applied Linguistics, University of 'USAID Bangladesh FtFBTIBEE' Victoria, BC, Canada MA in TESL, The English and Foreign Asif Nawaz Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad, Senior Lecturer India Department of English BA in English, East West University, Language and Literature Bangladesh Central Women’s University

Research interests: Instructed second language acquisition, Form-focused A.Z.M. Mazharul Hamid instruction, Corrective feedback, Executive Technology-mediated language teaching, Dept: Recovery Corpus-based language teaching (Finance & Accounts) Rancon Autos Ltd (Rangs Group)

Publications: Afsana Bintey Helal Assistant Manager, Office of Executive Director  Sinha, T.S. (2018). Focus on form in NGO- Shakti Foundation for Disadvantaged second language teaching. BELTA Women Journal, 2, 78-91.  Sinha, T.S. (2014). Acquisition of the Afsara Maymuna Haque non-generic uses of English definite Assistant Officer, Department of Human article by adult ESL learners. Language Resources Incepta Pharmaceuticals Limited in India, 14, 224-245.

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Prattasha Hayat With audacity, fluent speaking Creative Writer determination, and delivering bold Prokriti O Jibon Foundation, Impress Group presentations secured my position in the Rangs Group within six months.”— A.Z.M. Mazharul Hamid Noushin Mouli Waresi Editorial Assistant The Daily Observer “MA in English program at East West University offers a compact syllabus that helped me have an understanding of literature and literary theories. As a teacher, my philosophy of “understanding first and then delivering” was developed while I was an MA student at East West University. I was immensely influenced by Messages from our Alumni my teachers and their teaching styles.”— “East West University has undoubtedly Md. Zohorul Islam been one of the best decisions of my life, for this place has brought out the best version of myself. Along with the course works, I “MA in English at East West University has got the opportunity to closely work with helped me to be a better human amid the professors of my department through chaos of this world. By graduating from TAship, which, I believe, has efficiently the department of English has not only nurtured the professional self in me to thrive in the real world.”—Afsana Bintey showed me a way to achieve my goal of life Helal but also created a wider view towards the lives of the people in need. As I am working at a NGO, so, I can use my knowledge more “I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to vividly that I gained by studying here.”— the Faculties of English Department of East Tazrin Hossain West University for their contribution and effort in shaping the character, caliber, and future of their students. Throughout my M.A., I have received knowledge and skills “A place with an electric vibe, spark of on researching, analyzing, understanding, genius all around and many amazingly and synthesizing, which helped me to enroll beautiful minds of our country, EWU, into the Human Resource Department of Department of English is synonymous to Incepta Pharmaceuticals Limited.”—Afsara home. Now after completing post- Maymuna Haque graduation, even in the professional arena, its deep impression enables me to take on new challenges each day and aim for surpassing myself.” –Prattasha Hayat “I got the opportunity to work with widely renowned local company “Rangs group” immediately after completing my Masters from EWU. Well,to be honest,my “Enrolling in the MA in English program at educational background has given me solid East West University was one of the ground to withstand head to head with pragmatic decisions I’ve ever made. This corporate culture, norms and ideologies. program equipped me with the relevant

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21st century graduate skills needed in contemporary academia.”— Naeem Hasan

“EWU MA curriculum is designed with geographical preferences. I learned a great deal of English communication throughout my BA and MA studies at EWU. Particularly, the Translation Studies course facilitated me to pursue my current job. EWU nurtures its students with multidimensional materials which indeed help the students to pursue jobs in any field they want."—Rahnuma Shabiba

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