Elham Hossain

Biography from 2024

Professor Dr. Elham Hossain is an academic, essayist, translator, editor and literary critic. He did his B.A. (Honours) and M.A. in English Literature. He wrote his MPhil dissertation on the colonial literature and Doctoral dissertation on the novels of Chinua Achebe in the University of Dhaka. He has authored twelve books on colonial and postcolonial literature. A huge number of his research articles have been published in the prestigious academic journals of home and abroad. His area of interest encompasses the vast array of South Asian and African literatures and cultures, literary theories, history and anthropology. He edits a periodical Africar Alo (Light of Africa) published from Centre for Studies in African Literatures and Cultures, Dhaka . He is a Professor of English of Dhaka City College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.