Dr. Azfar Hossain: Critic, theorist, poet, translator, editor, researcher, teacher, and activist.

 Dr. Azfar Hussain taught English, Comparative American Cultures, Cultural Studies, and Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University and Bowling Green State University in the United States before his very recent move to the English Department of North South University, Dhaka. He had worked as a magazine editor, as a member of national-level left activist alliance, and as a university teacher of English in Bangladesh before he went to the United States on a Fulbright fellowship to do his graduate studies in English literature. He received his M.A and Ph.D. in English—both with distinction—from Washington State University (WSU), and his dissertation, being the best dissertation of the year, earned him the WSU English Department’s prestigious Postdoctoral Blackburn Fellowship in 2003.

Internationally published as he is, Dr. Hussain writes in both English and Bangla, and his written works—numerous as they are—encompass a wide range of issues and topics from political economy to critiques of postmodern-poststructuralist-postcolonial theory to the anti-imperial poetics and politics of ‘third-world’ writers-activists to globalization-as-globaloney to social and spatial engineering. In addition to editing and guest-editing numerous issues of journals and magazines both in the US and outside it, Hussain co-edited a two-volume reader called Reading about the World (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999), while his book-in-progress titled Toward a Political Economy of Land, Labor, Language, and the Body has recently been solicited by Routledge for publication in its series called ‘Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism.’(courtesy: The New Age)

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