A T M Sofiul Azam

Assistant Professor

  • M. A. in English, University of Rajshahi
  • BA (Hons) in English, MA in Literature (Rajshahi University)
Short Biography:

Sofiul Azam has four published poetry collections Impasse (2003), In Love with a Gorgon (2010), Safe under Water (2014), Persecution (2021), and edited Short Stories of Selim Morshed (2009). His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Pirene's Fountain, North Dakota Quarterly, The Ibis Head Review, The Ghazal Page, Cholla Needles, Poetry Salzburg Review, Orbis, The Cannon’s Mouth, Postcolonial Text, and elsewhere. Some poems are anthologized in Two Thirds North, fourW: New Writing 28, Journeys, Caught in the Net among others. He is working on two more poetry collections This Time, Every Time and Days in the Forested Hills. He currently teaches English at World University of Bangladesh, having taught it before at other universities.

Book Section
  • Azam, S. (2009). Selected Stories of Selim Morshed. Dhaka: Ulukhar – Little Magazine Publication.

  • Azam, S. (2021). Persecution. County Clare: Salmon Poetry.

  • Azam, S. (2014). Safe under Water. Dhaka: Magnum Opus.

  • Azam, S. (2010). In Love with a Gorgon. Aarhus: Le Editions du Zaporogue.

  • Azam, S. (2003). Impasse. Dhaka: Pathak Shamabesh

Journal Section
  • Azam, S. (2014). An Interview with Daniel Thomas Moran. Outlooks: VUB Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. 2.

  • Azam, S. (2009). Preface in Azam, S (ed.) Short Stories of Selim Morshed. Dhaka: Ulukhar – Little Magazine Publication.

  • Azam, S. (2022). Reading The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997: Debates and Translators’ Inadequacies. 

  • Azam, S. (2014). From Euphoria to Realization: Microscoping English-language Poetry by Bengalis. Outlooks: VUB Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. 2.

  • Azam, S. (2012). Reading Kaiser Haq: Dialectics of Anxieties about Language, Location and the Class. Outlooks: VUB Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. 1.  

  • Azam, S. (2015). Indianness and the Polemics of Polarization. Chaos: IUB Studies in Language, Literature and Creative Writing, Vol. 3.  No. 2.

  • Azam, S. (2016). Buddhadeva Bose and the Politics of Linguistic Chauvinism. Praxis: Journal of the Department of English, Rajshahi University. Vol. 7. 

Conference Section
  • Azam, S. (2020). A Critique of the Global Southern Writers’ Unconcern for, or Absence of a Broader Perspective on, Deep Ecology. In: Postcolonial Perspectives: Language, Literature and Culture and the Global South. Dhaka: Department of English, Daffodil International University. 

  • Azam, S. (2018). Dangers of Denying Poetry by the Consumerist Logic of the Global Marketplace. In: Language, Literature, Culture and Politics: Marx’s Bicentenary Conference. Dhaka: Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.

  • Azam, S. (2018). Adapting Literary Forms without Abandoning Cultural Differences and Postcolonial Resistance. In: Rethinking Disciplinary Diversity: Challenges of Teaching English in the 21st Century. Dhaka: Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University.

  • Azam, S. (2015). Teaching Resident Non-native Literatures in English. In: Diasporas and Diversities: Teaching English in a Changing World. Dhaka: Department of English, School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Independent University – Bangladesh.

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