Personal profile

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.

Education/Academic Qualification

M. A. in English, University of Rajshahi

BA (Hons) in English, MA in Literature (Rajshahi University)

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Research output

Article

Conference paper

Books

Books Chapter

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.

Research output : Contribution to conference

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.

Research output : Contribution to conference

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.

Research output : Contribution to conference

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.

Research output : Contribution to conference

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