Department of English
Dr. Mohammad Rahmatullah  Assistant Professor & Associate Head
Name :
Dr. Mohammad Rahmatullah
Designation
Assistant Professor & Associate Head  
Department
Department of English
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Personal Webpage
https://faculty.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/profile/english/rahmatullah.html
E-mail
aheadenglish@daffodilvarsity.edu.bd, rahmatullah.eng@diu.edu.bd
Phone
+8809617901233
Cell-Phone
+88 01723860534
Degree University / Institution Subject / Area Year Result
Postdoctorate Lincoln University College Displacement Studies Ongoing Ongoing
PhD (Awarded) – Indo-US Fellowship Chandigarh University, India English 2024 7.67/10.00
M.A. (2nd) Parul University, India English Language Teaching 2020 8.37/10.00
M.A. (1st) Institute of English & Other Languages, University of Rajshahi English Language 2017 3.46/5.00
B.A. Northern University Bangladesh English Language & Literature 2016 3.44/5.00

 

  • How to write a research paper? — School of Social Sciences and Languages (SSL), VIT Chennai; VIT Chennai; 22 June 2021.
  • South Asian Literature: Emerging Trends & Global Perspectives — Department of English & Centre for Endangered Languages, SKB University, in collaboration with Language Center, Green University of Bangladesh; Online; 3–5 June 2021.
  • National Youth Conference — Institute of Leadership & Governance, The Maharaja Sayajirao University; 10–12 January 2020.
  • Research: Formalized Curiosity — Langlit Kachchh University; 23 April 2020.
  • Linguistic Genocide Under Imperialism — Langlit, S.R.T.M. University; 29 April 2020.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, Daffodil International University — 4 October 2025 – Till Now.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northern University Bangladesh — 1 January 2025 – 30 September 2025.
  • Lecturer, Department of English, Northern University Bangladesh — 15 January 2024 – 15 April 2025.
  • Instructor, Department of English, Chandigarh University — 23 March 2021 – 29 December 2023.

Articles:

  • Decolonizing Degrowth: Ecosocialist Alternatives to Green Colonialism and Unequal Exchange — Capitalism Nature Socialism (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q1.
  • Visa Flesh: Postphenomenology, Kafala Infrastructures, and Embodied Precarity in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People — Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q2.
  • Indigenous Futurism and Algorithmic Colonialism: Decolonial Literary Resistance in Claire G. Coleman’s Terra Nullius and The Old Lie — Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q2.
  • Shadows of Conflict: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of War’s Toll on Identity and Morality in The Sniper — International Forum of Psychoanalysis (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q2.
  • From Co-Author to Co-Algorithm: What Counts as “Authorship Evidence” in English Studies After Stylometry and Generative AI? — English Studies (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q3.
  • When “Transparency” Becomes Surveillance: A Feminist Family Therapy Safety–Repair Protocol for Digital Coercive Control — Journal of Feminist Family Therapy (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q2.
  • Hydro-Archive and the Countdown: Evidence, Publics, and Sabotaged Visibility in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida — Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q1.
  • Ecofeminism, E-Waste, and Ethnic Precarity in Asian Postcyberpunk: A Plumwoodian Reading of Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide — Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q1.
  • Decolonizing Nature on Screen: African Eco-Documentary Film, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, and the Reframing of Identity — African Identities (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q1.
  • Voices from an Enclosed Commons: John Clare’s Ecological Textuality and the Archive of Lost Nature — ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Scopus/Q2.
  • Songs of Salt and Ruinate Sugar: Ecofeminism, Magical Realism and Post-Plantation Resistance in Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch — Romance Studies (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q3.
  • Haunted Laughter: Spectral Justice and Satirical Memory in Percival Everett’s The Trees — Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q1.
  • Affective Architectures of Protest: Feminist Safer Spaces and the Double-edged Politics of Indignation in Contemporary Europe — Social Movement Studies (Taylor & Francis), Scopus/Q1.
  • Hydrocolonial Currents: Water, Migration, and Climate Allegory in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island — International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies (IJELLS), Scopus/Q1.
  • Gaza as the World’s “Laboratory of Violence”: Biopolitics, Necropolitics, and the Undermining of Sustainable Development — Public Humanities, Cambridge University Press.
  • From Abjection to Hyperreality: Rethinking Modern Malaise in Eliot’s The Waste Land and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” — International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, Scopus/Q1.
  • From Silence to Collective Voice: Collaborative Poetic Transcription as a Paradigm Shift in Group-Based Poetry — Journal of Poetry Therapy, Scopus/WoS/Q3.
  • Roaring Beyond Access: A Capability-Oriented Reading of Abi Daré’s And So I Roar as a Qualitative Audit of SDG — Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress, Accepted/Q2.
  • Breaking the Wall: Ecofeminist Reconfigurations of Gender, Nature, and Survival in Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall — Women’s Studies (Taylor & Francis), Accepted/WoS/Q2.
  • Bodies of Water, Archives of Trauma: Hydrofeminist Reading and Fluid Feminist Agency in Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree — Australian Feminist Studies, Scopus/Q2/SSCI.
  • Literary Witnessing of Ambiguous Loss in Ukraine — Journal of Loss and Trauma, Q1/Scopus/WoS.
  • Chronicles of Eclipsed Hope: Dissecting Suicide through Sylvia Plath’s Labyrinthine Diaries — Global Journal of Social Science & Studies.
  • Interconnected Identities and Environmental Justice in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon: A Vibrant Materialist Analysis of Afrofuturist Narratives — African Identities, Q1/Scopus/WoS.
  • Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Global Citizenship and Sustainability: Enhancing Cross-Cultural Understanding in Education — Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, Q1/Scopus/WoS.
  • The Intricate Bonds of Sylvia Plath’s Poetry: A Journey with Attachment Theory — Women’s Studies (Taylor & Francis), Q2/Scopus/WoS.
  • Social Conflict, Reformation and Reconstruction: A Comparative Study on Kazi Nazrul Islam and Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Selected Poems — International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education, Scopus.
  • Disrupting the Binary: An Argument for Cybernetic Feminism in Deconstructing AI’s Gendered in Humanities — Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Q2/Scopus/ESCI.
  • Interrogating Gender Fluidity: A Schema Theoretic Dissection of The Cook and The Carpenter — Literature & Aesthetics, ESCI.
  • Duality of Death and Discourse: Sylvia Plath’s Legacy through Hartsock’s Standpoint Prism — Literature & Aesthetics, ESCI.
  • Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Poetry and the Affairs of Contemporary Life — Literature & Aesthetics, ESCI.
  • Transcultural Mnemonics: Assmann’s Paradigms Converging with Silko’s Ceremony Liminality — Literary Voice, ESCI.
  • Secularism, Equality and Egalitarianism: A Critique of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Selected Poems — Literary Voice, ESCI.
  • Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry: A Psychological Dive into Mindfulness — Indian Journal of Psychological Science, ESCI.
  • Digital Diasporas and Gendered Narratives: A Transnational Feminist Exploration of Americanah — Critical Gender Studies Journal, Crossref/Google Scholar.
  • Ecofeminist Critique of Patriarchal Power: A Warrenian Exploration of Ecological and Social Domination in Shakespeare’s The Tempest — International Journal of Scientific Research in Multidisciplinary Studies, Google Scholar.
  • Negotiating Diasporic Identities and Female Subjectivities: A Critical Intersectionality Approach to Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” — International Journal of English and Studies, Google Scholar.
  • Construction of Truth: An Analysis of Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak’s Postcolonial Theory — International Journal of English and Studies, Google Scholar.
  • Voice for the Oppressed: A Comparative Study of the Poetry of Kazi Nazrul Islam and Faiz Ahmed Faiz — International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, Google Scholar.

Books:

  • Ecowomanist Literary Praxis and the Politics of Sustainability in the African Diaspora: Rooted Resilience — Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan), Accepted.
  • Exploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature: Echoes of Laughter in the Capitalocene — ISBN 978-3-032-01775-8, Springer Nature, UK.
  • Gender & Sexuality: Thinkers & Theories — ISBN 978-8196322304, THYINK Publisher.

Conference Papers:

  • Linguistic Hegemony & Literary Representation: A Critical Analysis of Language, Power & Canon Formation — Shaping the Future (SHAF), Mid-West University, Nepal, 25–26 April 2025.
  • Negotiating Diasporic Identities and Female Subjectivities: A Critical Intersectionality Approach to Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” — International Virtual Conference on Women in South Asian Literature, India, 3–4 April 2024.
  • Digital Storytelling and Global Citizenship: Fostering Cross-Cultural Understanding and Sustainability Awareness in Literature Education — ICETGS, Chandigarh University, India, 2–3 February 2024.
  • Kazi Nazrul Islam: An Undying Postcolonial Poet in the History of Bengali Literature — Colonial to Postcolonial, 18–20 April 2022.
  • Resistance, Rebellion and Independence: A Study of Anti-Imperial and Anti-Colonial Poetry of Kazi Nazrul Islam — NCCPE-2022, 11–12 June 2022.
  • Secularism, Equality and Egalitarianism: A Critique of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Selected Poems — NCCPE-2021, 11–12 June 2021.
  • An Analysis of Edward Said’s and Gayatri Spivak’s Postcolonial Theory — Centres And Margins: Origin, Conflicts And Issues, 25–27 June 2021.
  • Scrimmaging for the Unheard: A Comparative Study of the Poetry of Kazi Nazrul Islam and Faiz Ahmed Faiz — 2-day International Conference on Narratives, Self and Identity, 30–31 August 2021.
  • Social Conflict, Reformation and Reconstruction: A Study on Kazi Nazrul Islam and Faiz Ahmed Faiz — International Virtual Conference on Disciplinary, Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research 2021, 14–15 October 2021.

Plenary Speaker:

  • Nationalism & Literature: Exploring the Intersection of Language, Identity & Imagination — English Language Teacher’s Association of India (ELTAI), Parbhani Chapter & MSP Mandal’s Shri Shivaji College, Parbhani, India; 17 April 2025.

Special Issue Editor:

  • The Literature of Climate Displacement — Public Humanities, Cambridge University Press — Accepted.
  • Empowering Underrepresented Communities: Integrating Sustainable Development Goals Through Social Inclusion — Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress, Scopus/Q2 — Accepted.
  • Ecofeminist Entanglements: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women, Ecology, and Social Justice — Women's Studies, Taylor & Francis, Scopus/Q2 — Accepted.
  • Ecofeminism and Social Identity: Intersections of Gender, Ecology, and Marginalization — Social Identities, Taylor & Francis, Scopus/Q2 — Accepted.
  • Synthetic Celebrity: AI-Generated Personas, Deepfakes, and the Algorithmic Production of Fame — Celebrity Studies, Taylor & Francis, Scopus/Q1 — Accepted.

Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Studies, Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, Gender Studies, Feminist Literary Studies, Climate Change and Climate Literature, Environmental Humanities, Migration and Displacement Studies, Digital Humanities and AI, Afrofuturism, Literary Theory, Trauma and Memory Studies, Sustainability and Social Justice, Literature, Identity and Politics.

 

Additional Research Experience

  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Literature Advances, Hill Publishing House, USA — 27 August 2025 – Till Date.
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Literature and Arts, Science Publishing Group — 23 February 2024 – Till Date.
  • Research Associate, Department of English, Chandigarh University — 21 March 2021 – 31 December 2023.
  • Research Excellence Award – 2020, Institute of Scholars (InSc), for the paper “Using Authentic Texts for Classroom Learning: A Potential Way for Students to Meet the Real World.”
  • Indo-US Fellowship associated with the PhD at Chandigarh University, India; PhD awarded in 2024.
  • Professional Member, InSc Certified Professional Membership – Institute of Scholars (InSc), May 2020 – Till Date.
Position Institution Duration
Research Fellow INTI International University, Malaysia 17 September 2025 – Till Now
Assistant Professor Department of English, Northern University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh 1 January 2025 – 30 September 2025
Lecturer Department of English, Northern University Bangladesh 15 January 2024 – 15 April 2025
Instructor Department of English, Chandigarh University 23 March 2021 – 29 December 2023
Research Associate Department of English, Chandigarh University 21 March 2021 – 31 December 2023