Dr. Shah Ahmed's Details

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Dr. Shah Ahmed

Dean (Acting)

shah.ahmed@uttarauniversity.edu.bd

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
Publication Publication Type Link
Adaptation and Auteurism in South Asian Studies with Reference to Rabindranath Tagore’s Works on Screen Journal Paper Link
Rabindranath Tagore's Views on Camera, Cinema, and Film Adaptation Journal Paper Link
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. Journal Paper Link
Rabindranath Tagore’s Works in Cinema: A Review of Selected Critical Works Journal Paper Link
An Auteurist Assessment of Rabindranath Tagore's Works on Screen Journal Paper Link
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 Journal Paper Link
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, The Tale of Hansuli Turn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, 405 pp., ISBN 9780231520225 Journal Paper Link
The Russian in Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Within and Without the Textual Harlequinade Journal Paper Link
Reversal of Stereotypes in Alice Walker's The Color Purple: God, Gender, Narrative and Sexuality Journal Paper Link
Gestaltic Approach in Translation Theory: An Attempt to Minimize the Gap between Foreignization and Domestication of Culture in Translation Journal Paper Link
Interpretation as the Underlying Force in Translation Journal Paper Link
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. Conference Paper
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. Conference Paper
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 Conference Paper
The Art of Transgression in Rabindranath Tagore’s Works on Screen: An Auteurist Study (PhD Thesis) Research Paper Link
The Tale of Hansuli Turn: A Regional Novel of Birphum or an Iconic Novel of Classical Themes? Book Chapter
Ahmed, S. (2024) "From Sophocles’ Antigone to Tanvir Mokammel’s Rabeya: An Authentic Multiculturism." Organized by CRT, Uttara University Conference Paper
Designation Organization From To
Director, Office of the Students' Affairs Uttara University 2024-12-20 Present
Dean (Acting) Uttara University 2024-08-13 CONTINUE
Dean (acting) School of Arts and Social Sciences, Uttara University 2024-08-01 Present
Associate Professor Uttara University 2024-01-09 Present
Chairman Department of English, Uttara University 2024-01-09 Present
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
Director, Office of the Students Affairs East Delta University 2013-06-01 2017-09-02
Proctor East Delta University 2013-01-01 2017-09-02
Chairman Department of English, East Delta University 2012-09-08 2017-09-02
Assistant Professor East Delta University 2012-02-09 2021-12-31
Assistant Professor Metropolitan University, Sylhet 2009-01-01 2012-08-31
Assistant Proctor Metropolitan University, Sylhet 2008-02-15 2012-08-31
Assistant Proctor Metropolitan University, Sylhet 2008-02-01 2012-08-31
Lecturer Metropolitan University, Sylhet 2006-04-01 2012-08-31
Lecturer Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan (BKSP) 2004-03-01 2006-01-01

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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