Elham Hossain

Elham Hossain
Elham Hossain
Born
🏳️ Nationality	Bangladeshi
🏫 Education	University of Dhaka (B.A. Honours, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.)
💼 Occupation	Academic, Literary Scholar
Known for	Postcolonial Studies, African Literature, Comparative Literature
🌐 Website	elhamhossain.com

Elham Hossain is a Bangladeshi academic and literary scholar, known for his extensive work in postcolonial literature, comparative literature, gender studies, and pedagogy. He is currently active in teaching, research, and academic publishing, with over two decades of experience in higher education.

Education

Hossain completed his B.A. Honours and M.A. in English from the University of Dhaka. He later pursued an M.Phil. at the same institution with a thesis titled: “The Colonial Encounter in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India.” HIs Ph.D. dissertation was entitled “Angst and Anxieties: Historical and Psychological Parallels in Chinua Achebe’s Trilogy,” also from the University of Dhaka.

Academic Career

With over 23 years of teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, Hossain has served as a Ph.D. examiner and thesis reviewer at several universities, both in Bangladesh and abroad. He is also a member of the editorial boards of various peer-reviewed academic journals. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor of English at Green University of Bangladesh.

He is affiliated with international organizations such as:

International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
PEN International, Bangladesh
ATLEB (Association of Teachers of Literature in English, Bangladesh)

Research Interests

Hossain's academic interests include:

Postcolonial Studies
African Literature
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Comparative Literature
Cultural Theory
Pedagogy and Educational Technology

Professional Profiles

Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

2025

"A New Historicist Re-reading of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: Is Shantih Shantih Shantih a Way to Colonial Subjugation?", Creative Flight, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 2025. Impact Factor 5.07. (Open access)
"Organic Pedagogy: Man-Machine Collaboration and Self-identity", Creative Flight, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 2025. Impact Factor 5.07.

2024

"Conflicted Space: A Geopolitical Shaping of Integration and Autonomy in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise", Creative Flight, Vol. 5, Issue 1, April 2024, pp. 1–10.
"Dialogic Reading of African Literature in Bengali: A Study from Bangladesh", in Re–Imagining Literatures of the World, Tbilisi University Press, 2024, pp. 76–90.
"Humayun Ahmed’s In Blissful Hell: A Study of Counter-hegemonic Cultural Practice from the Perspectives of Gender and Sexuality", in Disease and Discrimination: Gender Discrimination during the Pandemic in South Asia and Beyond, ed. Sourav Kumar Nag, Routledge, 2024.
"Dialectical Pedagogy and Modern Technology: Unmasking the Outcome-Based Education", Langlit, May 2024. ISSN 2349-5189. Impact Factor 5.61.
"Power Dynamics and the Post-independence Disillusionment: A Discursive Study of NoViolet Bulawayo’s Glory", International Journal of Emerging Knowledge Studies, Vol. 3 Issue 9, Sept 2024. DOI
"Intersectionality of Myth, History and Culture: A Study of Cross-cultural Boundaries and Transformation", Green University Review of Social Sciences, Vol. 10 Issue 1, June 2024.

2023

"Chinua Achebe’s Chike and the River: A Re-reading of the African Children’s World", in Chinua Achebe: Voice and Vision, UPL, Dhaka, May 2023, Chapter 16, pp. 189–200.
"Re-reading of J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands: Dialectics between Knowledge and Power Relations", Crossings, Vol. 14, Dec 2023.
"Stigmatization of Disability and its Resistance: A Re-reading of Humayun Ahmed’s In Blissful Hell", Green University Review of Social Sciences, Vol. 9 Issue 2, Dec 2023.

2022

"Diaspora Literature: A Space of Being and Becoming", Langlit: An International Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal, Vol. 7 Issue 4, Nov 2022. ISSN 2349-5189. Impact Factor 5.61.
"Multiculturalism: A Challenge to Individual Identity", International Journal of Multiculturalism, Vol. 3 Issue 1, 2022. DOI
"Community, Gender and Intersectionality: A Re-reading of Third World Feminism from the Subcontinent", in Women’s Voices: Projection of Women in Literature, Authors Press, New Delhi, 2022.

2021

"Postcolonial Disillusionment: A Historicist Reading of Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People", Crossings, Vol. 12, Sept 2021. ISSN 2071-1107.
"A Re-reading of Paradigm Shifts in Subaltern Studies from the Present Perspective", Creative Flight, Vol. 2 Issue 2, Oct 2021. ISSN 2582-6158.
"Orality, Gender and Sexuality in Elechi Amadi’s The Concubine", Creative Flight, Vol. 2 Issue 1, Oct 2021. ISSN 2582-6158.
"Hegemony of English Language", Green University Review of Social Sciences, Vol. 4 Issue 1, June 2021. ISSN 2313-237X.

2020

"Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: A Critical Response to the Colonial Historiography", Creative Flight, Vol. 1 Issue 2, Oct 2020.
"Postcolonial Situations and the Response of the Commonwealth Writers", in Inculcating Human Values…, Vishwabharati Research Centre, Mumbai, 2020. ISBN: 978-93-89264-33-3.
"Chinua Achebe’s English: An Afrocentric Orientation of a European Language", in ICMDR, Kolkata, 2019. ISBN: 978-93-88963-06-0.

2019 and Earlier

"Pitfalls of Caliban’s Resistance: A Study of Shakespeare’s The Tempest from Postcolonial Situation", Green University Review of Social Sciences, Vol. 5 Issue 2, Dec 2019. ISSN 2313-237X.
"Obi Okonkwo: A Mimic Man Troubled with Identity Crisis in Cultural Hybridity (in Achebe’s No Longer at Ease)", BUBT Journal, Vol. 7, Jan–Dec 2015. ISSN 2072-7542.
"The Colonial Encounter in A Passage to India", ASA University Review, Vol. 6 No. 1, 2012.
"Kim and A Passage to India: A Binary of Colonial Attitude", Stamford Journal of English Bangladesh, Vol. 7, Summer 2012.
"Colonial Texts: A Discourse of Misinterpreting the Mind of the Colonised", Stamford Journal of English Bangladesh, Vol. 8, Summer 2013–14.
"The Colonial Encounter in Kipling’s Kim", Jagannath University Journal of Arts, Vol. 1 No. 2, Jul–Dec 2011.

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