Dr. Kaiser Haq Designation: Professor Qualification: Phd, University of Warwick, UK Phone: 880-2-9661900-59 Ext

Name: Dr. Kaiser Haq Designation: Professor Qualification: PhD, University of Warwick, UK Phone: 880-2-9661900-59 Ext. 6050 (Work) Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION Placed First in the First Class in the B.A. Honours (1972) and M.A. (1973) examinations of the Department of English, University of Dhaka. Attended an Institute on American Literature of the 1920’s held in May 1977 in Madras, India, under the auspices of the U.S. Educational Foundation in India, and received the overall Grade ‘A’. Completed the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Warwick, England, in 1981. Title of these: ‘Frederic Manning: A Critical and Biographical Study’. Supervisor Professor Bernard Bergonzi.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Joined the Department of English, University of Dhaka, as Lecturer on 6 December 1975. Promoted to Assistant Professor on 13 January 1982. Promoted to Associate Professor on 30 April 1985. Promoted to Professor on 9 February 1991.

OTHER ACADEMIC AND LITERARY ACTIVITIES: Participated in international conferences and seminars held in Dhaka, Lahore, Jaipur, Hong Kong, Singapore, Milwaukee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cambridge (The British Council’s English Studies Seminar, 1986), Oxford (The British Council’s Seminar on Literature Teaching Overseas, 1995), Durham, Bamberg (Germany), Kathmandu. Judge for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region), 1994. Judge for the Singapore National Arts Council’s biannual short story contest in English (Co-sponsored by the Singapore Press Holdings), 1995. I also gave readings and conducted a writing workshop. Regional Chairperson for Eurasia for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 1996 and 1997. Fellow, Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat, May-June 2000. Fellow, Ledig House International Writers Colony, Ghent, New York, August-October 2000.

PUBLICATIONS Books (Poetry) Published in the Streets of Dhaka: Collected Poems 1966-2006 (writers.ink, Dhaka, 2007). The Logopathic Reviewer’s Song and Other Pieces (Aark Arts, London and UPL, Dhaka, 2002).

Black Orchid, London: Aark Arts, 1996. A Happy Farewell, Dhaka: UPL, 1994 Starting Lines, Dhaka, 1978. A Little Ado, Dhaka, 1978. Selected Poems of Shamsur Rahman (trans.), Dhaka: BRAC, 1985. (Enlarged edition, Dhaka: Pathak Samabesh, 2008) Contemporary Indian Poetry (editor), Ohio State University Press, 1990.

Books (Prose) Quartet (trans. of Tagore’s Chaturanga), Heinemann, U.K., 1993 The Wonders of Vilayet (trans. of the first Indian travel book on Europe), Peepal Tree Books, Leeds, 2002 (A section, titled ‘Passage to Scotland’, excerpted in The Scotsman). New edition: Delhi, Chroniclebooks, 2007. Quartet, revised, in Tagore Omnibus, Vol. 1, Penguin India, 2005. Urukkoo: The Woman Who Flew (trans. of Nasreen Jahan’s novel), forthcoming from Penguin India. Selected Stories of Anis Choudhury (trans.), forthcoming.

Articles and Reviews In London Magazine: “Forgotten Fred: A Portrait of Frederic Manning,” Vol. 23, Nos. 9 & 10, December 1983/January 1984. “More in Water than in Air: Notes from the Third-Class World,” Vol. 26, Nos. 1 & 2, April/May 1986. Review of Frederic Manning’s Her Privates We, Vol. 27, Nos. 1 & 2, April/May 1987. “Gunter Grass and the Troubled Hills,” Vol. 29, Nos. 1 & 2, April/May 1989. Review of Valcav Havel’s Disturbing the Peace, Vol. 31, Nos. 1 & 2, April/May 1991. Review of E. M. Cioran’s A Short History of Decay and The Temptation to Exist, Vol. 31, Nos. 7 & 8, November 1991. “Reviewing Tagore,” Vol. 31, Nos. 9 & 10, December 1991/January 1992. “Scandal in Paradise,” review of Rozsa Hajnoclay’s Fire of Bengal, Vol. 34, Nos. 5 & 6, August/September 1994. “A Pleasant Enough Decade,” review of P. Vansittart’s In the Fifties, Vol. 35, Nos. 5 & 6, August/September 1995. “Too Bad for Tagore,” review of Rabindranath Tagore, Vol. 36, No. 7 and 8, October- November 1996. “A Malgudi Life,” a review article on R. K. Narayan, Vol. 5 and 6, August-September 1997. “Asian Voices,” review of four Asian poets (forthcoming) “Aesthetes,” a review of Charles Tomlinson and Francis Ponge, February-March 2000/ “Modern Matters” December/January 2001.

In The Journal of Commonwealth Literature: “The Poetry of Frederic Manning,” Vol. xx, No. 1, 1985.

In Chapman (Edinburgh): “By the Crumbling Wall: Berlin Notes,” Nos. 61-62, Autumn 1990.

In South Asia Research (Oxford): “Easeful Death,” review article on Tagore, Summer 1997.

In The Dhaka University Studies: “Some Notes on the Auden Group,” Vol. xxv, December 1976. “The Hemingway Code,” Vol. xxvii, December 1977. “Artifice and Ideology in Hard Times,” Vol. xxxvi, June 1982. ‘The Great War and Ford Madox Ford’, Vol. 42, No. 2, December 1985. “The Great War as Apocalypse in Lawrence’s Minor Writings,” Vol. 43, No. 2, December 1986. “Contemporary American Poetry: Geneology and Trends,” Vol. 45, No. 1, June 1988. “Manning’s War Novel and the War Books Controversy,” Vol. 45, No. 2, December 1988. “Frederic Manning’s Scenes and Portraits: An Out of the Way Modern Classic,” Vol. 46, No. 2, December 1989. “The Great Canadian War Novel,” Vol. 48, No. 1, June 1991. “A Poet at Large: The Travel Writings of Raindranath Tagore” in Stierstorfer, ed. Return to Postmodernism. Heidelberg University Press, 2005.

WAR SERVICE Fought in the Bangladesh War of independence as a commissioned officer in the Bangladesh Army (October, 1971 - June 1972).

CURRENT PROJECTS: 1. Introducing new editions of Shahid Suhrawardy’s Essays in Verse (first published by Cambridge University Press, 1937) and art criticism. 2. A series of autobiographical essays. 3. Translations from Rabindranath Tagore. 4. A modern English version of the Mangalkabya, the most significant Bengali folk epic. 5. Translations of the poetry of Shaheed Quadri and Rafiq Azad.