Books & Journals

Gitabitan

Gitabitan: Selected Song-Lyrics of Rabindranath Tagore. (Dhaka: Journeyman Books, 2023).

Reading Literatur...

Reading Literature in English and English Studies in Bangladesh: Postcolonial Perspectives (Dhaka: writers.ink: 2021).

Once More into ...

Once More into the Past. Dhaka: Daily Star Books, 2020.

Imperial Entangl...

Imperial Entanglements and Literature in English. Dhaka: Writer’s Ink, 2007; Revised edition. Dhaka: Albatross Publications, 2017.

The Unfinished M...

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: The Unfinished Memoirs. Dhaka: The University Press Limited, June 2012; New Delhi, Penguin Books, 2012, Karachi, Oxford UP, 2012. Translated from the original Bengali.

The Prison Diaries

The Prison Diaries. Translation of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Karagarer Rojnamcha. Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2018.

Ocean of Sorrow

Ocean of Sorrow (a translation of Mir Mosharraf Hossain’s epic novel Bishad Sindhu). Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2016

Rabindranath ...

Rabindranath Tagore and Identity Formation in Bangladesh: Essays and Reviews. Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2013.

New China 1952

New China 1952. (Translation of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Amar Dekha Noya Chin). Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2021

Ballad of Our Hero

Ballad of Our Hero Bangabandhu. Translation of Syed Shamsul Huq’s Bangabondhur Bir Gatha. Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2019.

Jibanananda Das

Jibanananda Das: Selected Poems, Translated with Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary (Dhaka: University Press Ltd., 1999.

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Dictionary of Literary Biography: South Asian Writers in English. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006.

Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee, Twayne's United States Authors Series. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. A chapter from this book titled “The Holder of the World: A Hunger for Connectedness”, has been reprinted. in Bharati Mukherjee: Critical Perspectives. Ed. Somdatta Mandal. New Delhi: Pencraft Books, 2010.

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe: Colonial Propagandist (Dhaka: University of Dhaka Publications, 1989).

Chapters/Papers in Books, Journals and Web Publications

  1. “Shahbagh, Shapla Chottor and Bangladesh’s Meandering Mindscapes.” In Fifty Years of Bangladesh: Economy, Politics, Society and Culture. Routledge, London, 2024: 171-179.   
  2. “A Living Growth: Rabindranath Tagore and Polymathy”. In New Literary History special issue on Polymathy, 2023, Vol. 54: 1387-1403.
  3. “War and Peace and Poetry and Poets.” In Ideas: International Journal of Literature, Arts, Science and Culture. 9 (2023-24): 1-5.2 Foreword to Ahmer Mahboob’s Writings on Subaltern Practice. Cham Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan: vii-x.
  4. “The Partitioning of Bengal, 1971 and National Identity Formation in Tanvir Mokammel’s Films.” In Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-nation and Beyond. Eds. Parichay Patra and Amitendu Bhattacharya. New York: Routledge, 2024: 121-136.
  5. “Cultural Transfer, Rabindranath Tagore’s Travels and Travel Writing” in Tagore Beyond Boundaries: Essays on His Influence and Cultural Legacy. Eds. Mihaela Gregor and Eliabth Marino. London: Routledge, 2023: 5-20.
  6. Revisioning English Literature Syllabuses at the University of Dhaka: 1980-2021.” In Dhaka University’s English Department: Centenary Perspectives. Eds. Nevin Farida, Begum Shahnaz Sinha, Ahmed Bashir, Bijoy Lal Basu and Qunrul Hasan Chowdhury. DU English department publications: Dhaka: 2022: 10-20.
  7. “Syed Waliullah’s The Ugly Asian: An Unpublished Critique of Imperialists and the Comprador Class.” In Syed Waliullah: A Centenary Tribute. Ed. Niaz Zaman. Dhaka: Panjaree Publications, 2022: 150-161.
  8. “Singing Birds, English Romanticism and Two Bengali Bards in their Late Romantic Phase”. In Spectrum: Journal of the Department of English, Special Centennial Issue; 16:2022, 115-126.
  9. “Rabindranath Tagore and Environmental Justice.” In The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Studies Reader: Environmental Justice, Development Victimhood, and Resistance.  Eds. Samina Luthfa”Rd, Mohammad Tanzimuddun Khan and Munasir Kamal. Lexington Books: Lanham, Maryland, 2022: 207-220. [An earlier version of this paper appears in Rabindranath Tagore and Identity Formation in Bangladesh: Essays and Reviews (Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2011).
  10. “Literature, Boundaries, Nationalism and National Identity Formation.” English Forum: Journal of the Dept. of English, Gauhati University, Vol.8-9 (2020-21): 1-17.
  11. “Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib in Prison: The Prison Diaries.  In Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Birth Centenary Volume. Ed. Sheikh Hasina. Dhaka: National Committee for the Celebration of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2021.
  12. “Bangabandhu, the 1947 Partition and the Healing of Wounds”. In Bangabandhu and Bangladesh. Ed. Sharif Uddin Ahmed. Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2021: 212-217.  
  13. “Rediscovering the Human Image by Crossing Borders: Amitav Ghosh’s Writerly Travels/Travails.” In Dialogics: A Research Journal of English Studies. Volume 1 (January 2021): 7-19.
  14. “As He Lay Dying”: “Foreword” to The Last Days of Rabindranath Tagore in Memoirs. Translated and Edited by Somdatta Mandal. Bolpur, India: Birutjatio Sahitya Sammilani, 2021: I-X.  
  15. “Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and Blending Genres.” In Jadavpur University Essays and Studies XXXIV special issue on “Eighteenth Century Crossovers: Genders, Genre and Geography” (2020). Eds. Sonia Sahoo and Ramit Samaddar: 135-147.
  16. “Doing Environmental Criticism from Where We Are.” In Spectrum: Journal of the Department of English. Vols. 14&15, 2018-19 (pub. November, 2020): 1-18.
  17. “Karl Marx on India: A Postcolonial Perspective.” In Crossings: ULAB Journal of English Studies. Special Marx Volume, 200: 2020: 9-22.
  18. “Sheikh Mujibur Rahman”, The Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 10:3:2 web (October, 2020).
  19. “Mir Musharraf Hossein, Bishad Sindhu”, The Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 10:3:2 web (November, 2020).
  20. “Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Karagarer Rojnamcha. The Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 10:3:2 web (November, 2020).
  21. “The English Writings of Tagore: An Overview”. In The Cambridge Companion to Tagore. Ed. Sukanata Chaudhuri. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2020: 158-186.
  22. “Sufism, Peace and Harmony and Bangladesh”. In The Bangla Academy Journal.  2020, 1:1 :76-87.
  23. “Karl Marx on India: A Postcolonial Perspective.” In Crossings: ULAB Journal of English Studies. Special Marx Volume, 200: 2020: 9-22.
  24. “Sheikh Mujibur Rahman”, The Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 10:3:2 web (October, 2020).
  25. “Mir Musharraf Hossein, Bishad Sindhu”, The Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 10:3:2 web (November, 2020).
  26. “Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Karagarer Rojnamcha. The Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 10:3:2 web (November, 2020).
  27. “The English Writings of Tagore: An Overview”. In The Cambridge Companion to Tagore. Ed. Sukanata Chaudhuri. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2020: 158-186.
  28. “Sufism, Peace and Harmony and Bangladesh”. In The Bangla Academy Journal( 2020, 1:1 :76-87).
  29. “Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Bandhon Hara in English”. In Kazi Nazrul Islam: Poetry, Politics, Passion. Ed. Niaz Zaman. Dhaka: writers.ink, 2019.
  30. “Grub Street, Old and New: English Literature, English Departments and the Marketplace.” In English Studies and the Marketplace. Eds. Fakrul Alam, Shahriar Haque and Zohur Ahmed. Dhaka: East East University, 2018: 1-18. 
  31. “Introduction” to Tertiary Level Writing in English in Bangladesh: Tools and Approaches. Eds. Tahmina Ahmed et al. Dhaka: DEWS Book Series, 2019: xi-xx.
  32. “Revisioning English Studies in Bangladesh in the Age of Globalization and ELT”. In Engaging in Educational Research: Revising Policy and Practice in Bangladesh. Eds. Raqib Choudhury et al. Singapore: Springer, 2018: 241-261.
  33. “That Book”. A translation of a short story by Ajeya Roy. In Timeless Tales from Bengal. Eds. Dipankar Roy and Saurav Dasthakur. Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2018: 425-433.
  34. “Making Shakespeare Our Contemporary in Our Classrooms.” In Shakespeare Four Hundred Years After. Eds. Niaz Zaman and Razia Sultana Khan. Dhaka: Independent University, 2018: 60-79. 
  35. “Confronting the Canon Contrapuntally: The Example of Edward Said.” In The English Paradigm in India: Essays in Language, Literature and Culture. Eds. Shweta Rao Garg and Deepti Gupta. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018:31-48.
  36. “The New Media and Rethinking English Studies in Bangladesh”. In Spectrum: Journal of the Department of English. University of Dhaka. 13 (2017): 1-12.
  37. “Preface” to Tagore’s Ideas of the New Woman. Eds. Chandrava Chakravarty and Sneha Kar Chaudhuri. New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2017: ix-xii.
  38. “Ekushey and Mother Language Day”. In The Arts & South Asia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard South Asia Institute, 2017: 51-53.
  39. “Rabindranath Tagore at the Intersection of Nationalism and Modernity.” In Tagore and Nationalism.” Eds. K. L. Tuteja and Kaustav Chakraborty. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Advanced Study and Springer, 2017: 2-17: 125-139.
  40. “’Are the Green Fields Gone? What Do They Here?’: Herman Melville and Ecological Consciousness.” In Spectrum: Journal of the Department of English. 12 (2016): 1-8.
  41. “Student-Teacher Politics and Tertiary Education.” In University of Dhaka: Making Unmaking Remaking. Eds. Imtiaz Ahmed & Iftekhar Iqbal. Dhaka: Prothoma Prokashan, 2016: 94-115.
  42. “Transnationalism and South Asian Fiction in English.” In Negotiating the Nation: Colonial, postcolonial and Transnational Fictions, Delhi: Abhisek Prakashan, 2016: 11-31.
  43. “The Co-Operative Principle” and “The Divinity of the Forest”. (Translations of Essays by Rabindranath Tagore) In Shades of Difference: Selected Writings of Rabindranath Tagore. Ed.Radha Chakravarty. Social Science Press, New Delhi, 2015.  169-183 and 204-206.
  44. “In the Streets of Dhaka: Bangladeshi Writing in English”. http://himalmag.com/english-language-literature-bangladesh
  45. “Luminous with Vision: Rabindranath, Thoreau and Life-Centered Education amidst Nature.” In Santinketaan: Hellerau: New Education in the ‘Pedagogic Provinces’ of India and Germany. Ed. Michael Mann, Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag, 2015: 199-218. (Slightly revised version of essay published in Rabindranath Tagore and Identity Formation in Bangladesh: Essays and Reviews. Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2013.
  46. “Translation Viewed as the Territory of Unending Differences”. In Translation Studies: Exploring Identities. Eds. Fakrul Alam and Ahmed Ahsanuzzzaman. Dhaka: writer’s ink, 2015: 44-61
  47. “(Bangabondhu’s 7th March, 1971 speech) “, The Struggle this Time Is the Struggle for Independence.” In Bangabandhur Sat-E-Marcher Bhasan: Bahumatrik Bishlashan. Ed. Shamsuzzaman Khan. Dhaka:Bangla Academy, 2015. 213-220.
  48. “Confronting Empire Now.” In Shamsuzzaman Khan’s 76th Birthday Anniversary Felicitations volume. Eds. Selina Hossein, Mofidul Huq and Mahbubul Huq. Dhaka: Akkhar Prokashani, 2015: 417-432.
  49. “The Gitanjali in Translation: A Miracle of Transformation.” In Towards Tagore. Ed. Sanjukta Dasgupta, Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay and Swait Ganguly. Kolkata: Visva-Bharat. 2014: 320-337.
  50. “Rabindranath, Jibanananda and the Anxiety of Influence.” Apperception: Journal of the Department of English and Other Modern European Languages, Visva Bharati. Volume 7 (July 2014): 103:117.
  51. “English, the Language of Power, and the Power of Language.” In Harvest: Jahangirnagar University Studies in Language and Literature (Vol.29:2013-14): 5-24.
  52. “Exile, Cosmopolitanism and the Diasporic Intellectual: The Example of Edward Said.” In Crossings, vols. 4 &5 (2014): 3-12. Also in Diaspora Space: Emergence of Transnational Literature.  Ed. Keya Majumdar. New Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2014: 66-90.
  53. “The University of Dhaka and National Identity Formation in Bangladesh”. In Being Bengali: At Home and in the World. Ed. Mridula Chakraborty. London: Routledge, 2014: 11-31.
  54. “Confronting the Canon Contrapuntally: The Example of Edward Said”. In Literature, History and Culture: Writings in Honor of Professor Aali Areefur Rahman. Eds. Abdullah Al Mamun & Maswood Akhter. Department of English, Rajshahi University, 2014: 689-705.
  55. “The Mythos of Return and Recent Indian English Diasporic Fiction”. In Writing Indian English Fiction 2000-2010. Eds. Krishna Sen and Rituparna Roy. Amsterdam, Amsterdam UP, 2013: 247-258.
  56. “Elective Affinities: Edward Said, Joseph Conrad, and the Global Intellectual”. In Studia Neophilologica special issue on “Transnational Conrad”, (December, 2012): 95-105.
  57. “An Idealist on the Lectern: Rabindranath Tagore’s Lectures and Speeches in English”. In Crossings: ULAB Journal of English Studies. 3:1(Fall 2010): 63-76).
  58. “Reading Things Fall Apart Ecocritically”. Metropolitan University Journal. Vol. 3, No.1 (2011): 5-11.
  59. “Tagore and National Identity Formation in Bangladesh”. In Journal of Contemporary Thought, special number, “Punctuated Renewals: Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century”. 34 (Winter 2011): 179-196. Rpt. In Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century. Ed. Debashish Banerje.  Heidelberg: Springer Books, 2015: 225-242.
  60. “The Commodificaion of English Studies in Bangladesh”. In Literary Transactions in a Globalized Context: Multi-Ethnicity, Gender and Marketplace. Ed. Himadri Lahiri. Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2011: 250-274.
  61. Introduction to A Passage to India. Dhaka: Albatross Publications, 2010
  62. “‘Some Qualities of Permanence’”: Tagore’s English Prose. Crossings: ULAB Journal of English Studies. 2:1 (2009): 3-17
  63. “The Last Romantic, the First Modern”. In Essays on Jibanananda Das. Ed. Faizul Latif Chowdhury. Dhaka: Pathak Samabesh, 2009: 109-116.
  64. “Imperial Entanglements and Literature in English”, Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 2:2 (2008): 26-39.
  65. “Enmeshed in Differences: Amitav Ghosh’s Fictional Location and The Shadow Lines”. In Amitav Ghosh’s Shadow Lines: A Critical Companion. Ed. Murari Prasad. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2008.: 110-125.
  66. “Tagore and the Idea of a University”. In Forms of Knowledge in India: Critical Revaluations. Ed. Suresh Raval, G. M. Mehta & Sitanshu Yashaschandra. Delhi: Pencraft International, 2008.
  67. “Imagining South Asian Writing in English from Bangladesh”. South Asian Review, 2007 (28:1):37-49
  68. “Rabindranath Tagore and the Noble Prize”. In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nobel Prize Laureates in Literatures (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007): 436-450.
  69. “Sexuality and the Fiction of R. K. Narayan”, South Asian Review, 2007 (27:2): 134-150.
  70. “R. K. Narayan at the Indian Moment”. Spectrum Journal of the Department of English, University of Dhaka, Vol.4 (2006): 6-33.
  71. “‘American Literature’ in the Twenty-First Century,” Bangladesh Journal of American Studies, Vol. 11 (2006): 20-29.
  72. “Rethinking the English Curriculum of Universities in Bangladesh”. In Spectrum: Journal of the Department of English, University of Dhaka, Vol. 3 (2005): 1-20.
  73. “The Intellectual Community and Change”. In Bangladesh in the New Millennium: A University of Dhaka Study. Ed. Abul Kalam. Dhaka: University of Dhaka & The University Press Ltd., 2004: 267-278.
  74. “Translating Rabindranath Tagore’s Verse.” In Poetry: Text and Context. Ed. Jharna Sanyal & Krishna Sen. Kolkata: UGC Staff Academic College & Department of English Publications, 2003: 257-284.
  75. “The Enigma of V. S. Naipaul.”  In V. S. Naipaul: An Anthology of Recent Criticism. Ed. Purabi Panwar (New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2003): 187-195.
  76. “R. K. Narayan and the End of British India.” in South Asian Review. 22, 2002 (23:1):70-85.
  77. “Using Postcolonial Literature in ELT”, In The English Teacher: An International Journal. Vol. 5:2 (March 2002): 123-136.
  78. “R. K. Narayan and the End of British India.” in South Asian Review. 22, 2002
  79. “Using Postcolonial Literature in ELT”, In The English Teacher: An International Journal. Vol. 5:2 (March 2002): 123-136.
  80. “Truth Stranger than Fiction”: Truth-effects and Fictionality in William Wells Brown’s Clotel. Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta. 28:2 (2000-20001): 82-92.
  81. “Melville and the Quest for the Infinite.” In Religion in the United States. Ed. F. Alam & N. Zaman (Dhaka: Bangladesh Assoication of Amrican Studies Publications, 2001): 121-138.
  82. “The Dhaka University English Curriculum: A Decade of Development?”. In Revisioning English in Bangladesh. Ed. Fakrul Alam et. al. (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2001): 1-14.
  83. “Migration and Settlement in North America in Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction.” In The Diasporic Imagination: Asian-American Writing; Vol.2 Fiction. Ed. Somdatta Mandal. (New Delhi: Prestige Publishers, 2000): 61-82. Reprinted from The Dhaka University Studies, Vols. 53 & 54, December (1996-97): 1-20.
  84. “New Historicism and the Politicization of Shakespeare.” In The Dhaka University Studies” 56: 2 (1999): 1-18.
  85. “Edward Said and the Counter-Discourse of Postcolonial Intellectuals,” in Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters, ed. Niaz Zaman et al. (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 1999): 15-35
  86. “Reading R. K. Narayan Postcolonially.” In a special issue of The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (India) on Postcolonialism: Theory and Literature (Vol. XX: Nos 1-2 1998) :9-34
  87. “A House for Mr. Chaudhuri,” in Literature of Asian Emigration/Emigration: Critical Essays,” ed. Geoffrey Kain (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997): 49-63.
  88. “The American Renaissance,” in Markin Jushtorashtro: Samaj O Sanskriti (U.S. Society and Culture), Vol. 6 (published by Bangladesh Association for American Studies and United States Information Services, October 1997), pp. 11-20.
  89. “Imperial Entanglements and Literature in English,” Theoretical Perspectives, 2:1 (1995): 174-195.
  90. “Deceit and Desire in Melville’s Pierre,” in Proceedings of the 1993 BAAS-USIS Conference on American Studies,” ed. Fakrul Alam et al (Dhaka: BAAS-USIS, 1995): 167-184.
  91. “Rudyard Kipling at the Indian Moment,” Haritham (India), 4 (1994): 51-65.
  92. “An Englishwoman’s Quest for Independence in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta: Eliza Fay’s Original Letters from India,” in Infinite Variety: Women in Society and Literature, ed. Firdous Azim and Niaz Zaman (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 1994): 22-44.
  93. “Narrative Strategies in Two Narayan Novels,” in R. K. Narayan: Critical Perspectives,” ed. A. L. McLeod (New Delhi: Sterling Press, 1994): 8-21.
  94. “Plot and Character in R. K. Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi: A Reassessment,” in R. K. Narayan: Contemporary Critical Essays, ed. Geoffrey Kain (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993): 141-154, reprinted from Ariel 19, no. 3 (July 1988): 77-92.
  95. “Nirad Chaudhuri,” in Writers of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook,” ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, Conn: Greewood Press, 1993): 43-52.
  96. “Amitav Ghosh,” in Writers of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook,” ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, Conn: Greewood Press, 1993): 137-146.
  97. “From the Aloofness of Expatriation to the Exuberance of Immigration: Bharati Mukherjee’s Progress.” In Migration, Migrants, and the United States, ed. N. Zaman and K. U. Ahmed (Dhaka: Bangladesh Association for American Studies Publications, 1992): 122-34.
  98. “Blaming a Victim — A Response to Seaton on Edward Said,” (a rejoinder to a critique of Said’s criticism). In South Carolina Review, 29:2 (1992): 178-183.
  99. “Making it New in American Literary History,” in North Dakota Quarterly, 60:1 (1992 – a special issue of the journal entitled: “Rediscovering America: The View from Abroad”): 74-80.
  100. “Nabobism on Trial: The Impeachment of Hasting as Moral Theatre,” Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities) 36:2 (1991): 1-12.
  101. “T. S. Eliot and English Literary History,” Dhaka University Studies, Part A, 47:1 (1990): 115-126.
  102. “Pierre and the City,” Indian Journal of American Studies 19:1 (1989): 119-124.
  103. “R. K. Narayan,” Beacham’s Popular Fiction 1991 Update. Ed. Walter Beacham et. al. (Washington D.C.: Beacham Publishing Inc., 1991): 917-928.
  104. “Salman Rushdie,” in Beacham’s Popular Fiction 1991 Update. Ed.  Walter Beacham et. al. (Washington D.C.: Beacham Publishing Inc., 1991): 1094-1111.
  105. “New Directions in American Literary History,” South Carolina Review, 21:1 (1989): 65-68.
  106. “Defoe’s Ideal Protagonist: The Narrator of A New Voyage Round the World,” Dhaka University Studies, Part A, 45:1 (1988): 72-92.
  107. “‘I Kan No More’ — The Narrator in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde,” (11987), Dhaka University Studies, Part A, 44:1 (1987): 55-65.
  108. “Religious and Linguistic Colonialism in Defoe’s Fiction,” North Dakota Quarterly, 55:3 (1987): 116-123.
  109. “Redburn and Liverpool,” Bangladesh Journal of American Studies, 1:1 (1987): 1-26.
  110. “Men-Women Relationships in Lawrence’s The Rainbow,” Dhaka University Studies, Part A, 43:2 (1986): 151-166.
  111. “Baconism and English Colonial Discourse,” Proceedings of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the University of Dhaka (Dhaka: Dhaka University Publications, 1985), Vol. I: 77-90.
  112. “Robinson Crusoe as an Archetypal Colonizer,” Dhaka University Studies, Part A, 42:1 (1985): 24-38.
  113. “A Note on Georg Lukacs’ Narrate or Describe?“ Form: A Magazine of the Arts, 2 (1983): 96-106.
  114. “Islam in British Columbia,” in Circle of Voices: A History of Religious Communities in British Columbia, ed. Charles P. Anderson et. al. (Lantzvill, British Columbia: Colichan Books, 1983): 223-31.
  115. “Bellow’s Gifts,” Dhaka University Studies, 28 (1978): 132-155.
  116. “Realism in the English Novel — from Defoe to Scott,” Dhaka University Studies, 25 (1976): 47-60.