Shaibal DevRoy

North Dakota State University 701.729.1891 English Department [email protected] Minard 318 E26 [email protected] NDSU—Dept. 2320 P.O. Box 6050 Fargo, ND 58108-6050

Education

2019 M.A. in English North Dakota State University, USA 2006 TESOL Certificate St. Giles International, London, UK 2005 M.A., English University of , 2004 B.A., English , Bangladesh

Academic Positions

2017- present Graduate Teaching Assistant North Dakota State University, USA 2012-2017 Assistant Professor , Bangladesh 2006-2012 Lecturer Premier University, Bangladesh 2006 Trainee Teacher, ESOL St. Giles College, London, UK

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles (United States) “Repetition and Remaking: George Moses Horton’s Inspired Borrowings from The Columbian Orator” [in preparation for submission to J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists ]

Peer-Reviewed Articles (Bangladesh) “The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Chronicle of the Tyranny of the Strong.” Premier Critical Perspectives, Premier University, Bangladesh, Vol 4, Spring 2017. (Accepted for Publication)

“Thomas Pynchon’s V.: Site Reading or Representation without Resemblance.” Horizon: A Journal of Letters, Department of English, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. No.5, August 2015. (Accepted for Publication)

“Magic Realism and Fantasy: Paradoxes of Reality in One Hundred Years of Solitude of Gabriel DevRoy 2

Garcia Marquez.” Outlooks: VUB Studies in Language, Literature and Culture, A Journal of the Department of English, Victoria University of Bangladesh. Issue 2, October 2014, pp. 125-133.

“The Sources of Magic Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.” Stamford Journal of English, A Journal of the Department of English, Stamford University, Bangladesh. Vol. 7, Summer 2012, pp. 251-261.

“The Inexplicable Enigmas in The Turn of The Screw.” Chaos: IUB Studies in Language, Literature and Creative Writing, A Journal of the Department of English, Independent University, Bangladesh. Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 2012, pp. 125-132.

Translations in The Liberation War 1971, Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2012 (ca. 51,000 words)

Awards and honors

Richard L. Johnson Scholarship, North Dakota State University for 2018-2019 ($1000) English Department Travel Award for Paper Presentation in 32nd Annual MELUS Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada in May 2018 ($500) Graduate School Travel Award for Paper Presentation in 32nd Annual MELUS Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada in May 2018 ($200) Recruitment Award, North Dakota State University, Fall 2017 ($500)

Conferences and presentations

“The Dream of Emancipation in the Poetry of George Moses Horton, a Poet in Bondage.” 32nd Annual MELUS Conference, Las Vegas, May 2018. “History of George Moses Horton Criticism.” 15th Annual Red River Graduate Student Conference, North Dakota State University, April 2018. “License to Rape—the Rhetoric of the Raped Rohingya Women: A Study of the Interviews of Refugees in Bangladesh.” Department of Women and Gender Studies: Red River Women’s Studies Conference, North Dakota State University, October 2017. “Ursula: A Postcolonial Tiresias of Magic Realism.” Department of English and Modern Languages Conference: The River: Flows of Innovation and Exchange in the Global(i)zed English World. , Bangladesh, March 2016. “Future Careers of English Graduates in New Millennium,” Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh, November 2015. “Inexplicable Enigmas in Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw.” Monthly Literary Seminar, DevRoy 3

Department of English Language and Literature, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh, October 2007.

Courses taught

North Dakota State University, USA College Composition II (core requirement general education)

Premier University, Bangladesh Modern Fictions in English Translations (elective for graduate students) Development of Modern Poetry and Drama (elective for graduate students) Writing Across the World (elective for graduate students) Feministic Criticism (elective for graduate students) Teaching the Productive Skills: Writing and Speaking (elective for graduate students)

Introduction to English Literary Theory (elective for majors) History of Western Ideas: From the Ancient time to the Reformation (elective for majors) Shakespeare: Tragedies and Histories (elective for majors) Shakespeare: Comedies and Sonnets (elective for majors) Victorian Poetry (elective for majors) Early 20th Century English Literature (elective for majors) English Poetry: From 1901 to 1950 (elective for majors) English Fiction: 20th Century (elective for majors) Structures of English (elective for majors)

Introduction to Poetry (core requirement for majors) Introduction to Drama (core requirement for majors) History of English Literature (core requirement for majors) English Literary Reading (core requirement for majors) Study of Drama and Novel (core requirement for majors) Practical Criticism (core requirement for majors) Composition, Comprehension and Verbal skills (core requirement for majors)

St. Giles College, London, UK ESL Foundation Course - Reading and Writing (2 Sections)

Service

North Dakota State University, USA DevRoy 4

Member Finance Committee, 16th Annual Red River Graduate Student Conference North Dakota State University, 2019 Member English Graduate Organization, North Dakota State University, 2017- 2019. Member Student Writing Showcase, 2018.

Premier University, Bangladesh Chair Exam Committee, English Department Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Course Coordinator Undergraduate Courses, English Department, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Coordinator Drama Club, English Department, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Coordinator Shakespeare Drama Festival, English Department, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Moderator University Debating Society, English Department, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Member Curricula and Syllabus Development Committee, English Department, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Representative University Convention Committee, English Department, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Member Exam Committee, English Department, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Member Disciplinary Committee, English Department, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Languages English and Bengali (Fluent) Hindi (Listening and Speaking) French (Reading-Elementary)

Professional memberships Modern Language Association (MLA) The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Center for Advanced Studies in South Asia - Comparative South Asian Studies/Bangladesh (CASSA)

Academic Referees Dr. Gordon Fraser Research Assistant Professor and Senior Visiting Fellow DevRoy 5

Center for Humanities and Information The Pennsylvania State University Permanent Faculty Member and Presidential Fellow in American Studies University of Manchester [email protected]

Dr. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Professor and Chair Department of English North Dakota State University NDSU Dept. 2320, PO Box 6050 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 [email protected]

Dr. Alison Graham-Bertolini Assistant Professor Department of English and WGS North Dakota State University NDSU Dept. 2320, PO Box 6050 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 [email protected]

Dr. Sean Burt Assistant Professor Department of English and Religious Studies North Dakota State University NDSU Dept. 2320, PO Box 6050 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 [email protected]