Dr. Shah Ahmed
Associate Professor and Chairman
shah.ahmed@uttarauniversity.edu.bd Copy
| Degree | Major | Institute | Passed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | English Literature | International Islamic University Malaysia | 2021 |
| Master of Arts | English Literature | University of Chittagong | 2000 |
| BA (Hons) | English Literature & Language | University of Chittagong | 1999 |
| HSC | Humanities | Cumilla Board | 1994 |
| SSC | Science | Cumilla Board | 1992 |
| Book Chapter |
The Tale of Hansuli Turn: A Regional Novel of Birphum or an Iconic Novel of Classical Themes? |
| Journal Paper |
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, The Tale of Hansuli Turn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, 405 pp., ISBN 9780231520225 |
Adaptation and Auteurism in South Asian Studies with Reference to Rabindranath Tagore’s Works on Screen |
Rabindranath Tagore's Views on Camera, Cinema, and Film Adaptation |
A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Edited by Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan. Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2017, pp. 312. ISBN 978-93-86296-00-9. |
Rabindranath Tagore’s Works in Cinema: A Review of Selected Critical Works |
An Auteurist Assessment of Rabindranath Tagore's Works on Screen |
Mohammad A. Quayum & Md. Mahmudul Hasan (eds.). 2021. Bangladeshi Literature in English: A Critical Anthology. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 302 pp., BDT 350.00, ISBN 978-984-35-0677-1 |
The Russian in Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Within and Without the Textual Harlequinade |
Reversal of Stereotypes in Alice Walker's The Color Purple: God, Gender, Narrative and Sexuality |
Gestaltic Approach in Translation Theory: An Attempt to Minimize the Gap between Foreignization and Domestication of Culture in Translation |
Interpretation as the Underlying Force in Translation |
| Conference Paper |
Ahmed, S. (2024) "From Sophocles’ Antigone to Tanvir Mokammel’s Rabeya: An Authentic Multiculturism." Organized by CRT, Uttara University |
Ahmed, S. (2021). "Translating Transgenerational Sensitivities: A Study of the Film Adaptation of Monica Ali's Brick Lane". The Salerno Conference on Bangladeshi English Novels: From Emergence to Efflorescence, 2021. Organised by University of Salerno, Italy. |
Ahmed, S. (2020). Rabindranath Tagore as the Film and Adaptation Theorist in Indian Cinema. International Conference on Language and Literature 2020. Organised by International Islamic University Malaysia. |
Ahmed, S. (2021). From Nostalgia to Nostophobia: Kabul and Kabuliwalas in the Film Adaptations of Tagore’s “Kabuliwala.” From Kabuliwala to the Fall of Kabul: Afghanistan in Popular Imagination. Organised by University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh |
| Research Paper |
The Art of Transgression in Rabindranath Tagore’s Works on Screen: An Auteurist Study (PhD Thesis) |
| Designation | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dean (Acting) | Uttara University | 2024-08-13 | CONTINUE |
| Lecturer | Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan (BKSP) | 2004-03-01 | 2006-01-01 |
| Lecturer | Metropolitan University, Sylhet | 2006-04-01 | 2012-08-31 |
| Assistant Proctor | Metropolitan University, Sylhet | 2008-02-01 | 2012-08-31 |
| Assistant Professor | Metropolitan University, Sylhet | 2009-01-01 | 2012-08-31 |
| Assistant Proctor | Metropolitan University, Sylhet | 2008-02-15 | 2012-08-31 |
| Assistant Professor | East Delta University | 2012-02-09 | 2021-12-31 |
| Chairman | Department of English, East Delta University | 2012-09-08 | 2017-09-02 |
| Proctor | East Delta University | 2013-01-01 | 2017-09-02 |
| Director, Office of the Students Affairs | East Delta University | 2013-06-01 | 2017-09-02 |
| Associate Professor | Chittagong Independent University | 2022-01-01 | 2024-01-02 |
| Dean | School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Chittagong Independent University | 2022-01-01 | 2024-01-02 |
| Associate Professor | Uttara University | 2024-01-09 | Present |
| Chairman | Department of English, Uttara University | 2024-01-09 | Present |
| Dean (acting) | School of Arts and Social Sciences, Uttara University | 2024-08-01 | Present |
| Director, Office of the Students' Affairs | Uttara University | 2024-12-20 | Present |
Teaching is the only professional field I can exert myself. With this conviction, I joined Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan (BKSP). Teaching language to sports-chanting students could not, however, assuage my esurience of teaching literature at University level. After the phases of upward-downward thinking of leaving a Govt. job, I finally joined Metropolitan University, a private university in Sylhet, in 2006. Since then, I have been teaching English language and literature for 18 years both in undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Moreover, I oversaw many responsible roles such as the Chair of the departments, the Editor of journals and the Proctor of the universities I worked for. Recently, I worked as the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Chittagong Independent University. Currently, I am working as the Chairman, Department of English, Uttara University, Dhaka. To emphasize, teaching students in classrooms and remaining engaged in research activities never exhaust me. My main research focus is Adaptation Studies, that is, aesthetics and theories in the cinematic translation of literature. I completed my PhD degree in 2021 with a thesis category of “outstanding”. In the meantime, I have eleven papers published in national and international peer-reviewed journals, including Q1 and Scopus journals like Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature and Intellectual Discourse. The other areas of my research/teaching interest include Postcolonial Literature and Cinema, Diasporic Literature and Cinema, South Asian Literature on Screen, and World Literature.
| Title |
|---|
| PhD: Outstanding Category, the Dean's Award |
| Title |
|---|
| Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Chittagong Independent University |
| Chairman, Department of English, Uttara University |
| Founder Chairman, Department of English, East Delta University |
| Head, Department of English, Metropolitan University |
| Proctor, East Delta University |
| Initiator of Students' Affairs, East Delta University |
| Dean (acting), School of Arts and Social Sciences, Uttara University |
| Chairman, Department of English, East Delta University |
| Title |
|---|
| Adaptation Studies (Aesthetics and Theories of Film Adaptation) |
| Diasporic Literature and Cinema |
| South Literature and Cinema |
| World Literature |
| Bangladeshi Literature and Cinema |
| Title | Course Code |
|---|---|
| Research Methodology | ENG 410 |
| World Literature 1 | ENG 206 |
| Further Readings | ENG 402 |
| World Literature 2 | ENG 306 |
| 20th Century English Drama | ENG 0232611 |
| Literary Theory | ENG 0232604 |
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