Professional Experience
Dr. Fakrul Alam (born July 20, 1951) is a Bangladeshi academic, writer, and translator. He specializes in literary matters and postcolonial issues and has translated works by Jibanananda Das and Rabindranath Tagore into English. Alam has been honored with the Bangla Academy Literary Award (2012) for translation literature and the SAARC Literary Award (2012).
EDUCATION
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Bangabandhu Chair Professor, Department of History, University of Dhaka (2023-)
- Supernumerary Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka, (2021-2023)
- UGC Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka—August 24, 2019—August 2021
- Pro V.C. and Professor, East West University, September, 2017 to May 30, 2019
- Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka (retired on June 30, 2017)
- Adjunct Faculty, University of Liberal Arts, 2014--
- Adjunct Faculty, East West University, 2001-2014;
- Visiting Professor, Viswa-Bharati, January 8 to January 21, 2011
- Visiting Professor, Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India (January-February 1996)
- Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (April 1985 to January 1992)
- Fulbright Lecturer and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Clemson University, USA (1989-1991)
- Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (October 1984 to April 1985)
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia, Canada (September 1982 to April 1984)
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University, Canada (September 1978 to April 1980)
- Lecturer, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (December 1975 to September 1978)
ADMINISTRATIVE/ ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD
- Eighteenth century English Literature; Translation Studies; South Asian Writing in English; English
- Writing on India; Melville and the American Literary Renaissance; Colonialism/ Postcolonialism;
- National Identity Formation and Bangladeshi History; the University of Dhaka
- Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das; Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Life and Works