Department of English
Dr. Khan Touseef Osman  Associate Professor
Name :
Dr. Khan Touseef Osman
Designation
Associate Professor  
Department
Department of English
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Personal Webpage
https://faculty.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/profile/english/osman.html
E-mail
touseef.eng@diu.edu.bd
Phone
+8809617901233
Cell-Phone
+88 01344034267
Qualification Institution Date
PhD, Department of Humanistic Studies University of Salerno, Italy 2019–March 2024
Postgraduate Diploma in Genocide Studies University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 21 Jan 2017–27 May 2017
PhD in Literary Studies in English University of Kashmir, India 06 Jun 2013–31 Aug 2016
Master of Arts in English University of Chittagong, Bangladesh 2008; Exam 2011
Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English University of Chittagong, Bangladesh 2007; Exam 2010

 

  1. TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) — Stellenbosch University, 18 June–12 July 2019.
  2. Advanced Course on Research Techniques in Social Sciences — Bureau of Economic Research, University of Dhaka, 26 April–27 May 2017.
  3. Open Publishing Using Open Journal Systems — CSIR-NISCAIR, New Delhi, 08–12 August 2016.
  4. Interaction Programme on Research Methodology — Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi, 12 November–02 December 2014; obtained Grade A.
  5. Creative Writing and Performance Literature — Brine Pickles under the American Center, US Embassy, Dhaka, 19 November 2011.

Courses Taught:

  • University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh: ENG 531 History of Ideas; ENG 505 Approaches to Cultural Theory.
  • East Delta University: ENG 603 20th Century World Literature in English Translation; ENG 609 Cultural and Media Studies.
  • Asian University for Women: Postcolonial English Fiction from Bangladesh; The Idea of the Nation; Cultural Studies; Narratives of Displacement; Postcolonial English Novels from Bangladesh; Diasporic and Refugee Experience in Film and Literature; Introduction to Cultural Studies; Trauma and Nationhood in Bangladeshi English Fiction.
  • Daffodil International University: ENG 121 Introduction to Poetry; ENG 233 Romantic Poetry; ENG 411 Twentieth Century Poetry; ENG 431 Classics in Translation; ENG 506 Contemporary Literary Theories; ENG 509 Postmodernism in Literature.
  • University of Kashmir: KS14105EA Fratricidal Violence: South Asian Partition Literature.
  • Metropolitan University: ENG 393 19th Century English Fiction; ENG 394 Literary Criticism.

Published Articles and Chapters:

  1. “Representational Consequences of Trauma for South Asian Partition Novels in English” — Routledge volume Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature, 2022.
  2. “The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron” — Crossings, Vol. 11, 2020.
  3. “Trauma Theory in the Context of the Partition of Subcontinent” — South Asia: State, Society and Development, 2018.
  4. “Trauma and Fiction: Representational Crises and Modalities” — Crossings, Vol. 08, 2017.
  5. “Narrative Indirection and Representational Crisis in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan” — English Studies in India, Vol. 25, 2017.
  6. “Intersection of Public and Private Traumas in Amitav Ghosh's Shadow Lines” — Appropriations, Vol. 10.
  7. “The Voice of the Wound: A Study of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man” — Praxis, Vol. 7, 2015.
  8. “Trauma Theory and Literary Representation” — English Studies in India, Vol. 23, 2015.
  9. “Representing the Unrepresentable in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day” — East West Journal of Humanities, Vol. 5, 2015.
  10. “Partition Literature and Partitioned People” — Kashmir and South Asia Studies Digest, Vol. 1, 2015.
  11. “Imaginary Boundaries and Post-Partition Nation-State” — The Criterion, Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2015.
  12. “Chinua Achebe and the Post-colonial Linguistic Dilemma” — Miraas, 2013.
  13. “Trauma Theory and Its Implications in Humanities and Social Sciences” — Palimpsest, Vol. 1, 2013.

Monograph: Chinua Achebe's Cultural Syntax: A Study of The African Trilogy, VDM Verlag, 2010.

  • Environmental Humanities/Planetary Thinking
  • Trauma and Memory Studies
  • Partition Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Postcolonial/World/Transnational/Diasporic Literatures
  1. South Asia Foundation scholarship for PhD
  2. Andrew Mellon Foundation-funded fellowship for Postdoc
  3. University of Salerno scholarship for PhD
  1. South Asian Literary Association (SALA)
  2. European Students’ Network (ESN)
Position Institution Period
Assistant Professor of Humanities, Core Program Asian University for Women 21 Aug 2019–30 Jul 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher, Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation Stellenbosch University, South Africa 02 Feb 2018–31 Jul 2019
Assistant Professor, Department of English; Research Coordinator Daffodil International University 02 Sep 2015–31 Dec 2017
Lecturer, Department of English Metropolitan University, Sylhet 16 Jan 2012–27 Aug 2015