Faculty Profile

Md Ishrat Ibne Ismail

Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801717021650
  • Email: ishrat384-eng@sust.edu, mismai29@uwo.ca

Biography

Born and raised in Bangladesh, Ishrat, a PhD Candidate at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, is interested in South Asian Partition Literature, emphasizing Bangladeshi representation of the 1947 Partition. He has his BA and MA in English Literature from Shahjalal University, Bangladesh, and his second MA in English, Film, and Theatre from the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Education

  • PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, Western University, Canada
  • MA in English, Film and Theatre, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • MA in English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  • BA (Hons) in English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

Research Interests

  • 1947 Partition Literature (emphasis on Bangladeshi representation)
  • Human Rights and Literature
  • South Asian Literature
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • Diaspora Literature

Previous Research Project

  • 1. "Implementation of Blended Learning in Bangladeshi Universities: A Qualitative Study on Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions." Principal Investigator (2022 – 2023) Shahjalal University Research Grant, Shahjalal University Science and Technology Research Centre, Bangladesh.
  • 2. "Rizia Rahman’s Surjo Sabuj Rokto (Sun Green Blood): A Literary Perspective on the Human Rights Crisis of the Tea Garden Workers and their Real-time Status." Principal Investigator (2021 – 2022) Shahjalal University Research Grant, Shahjalal University Science and Technology Research Centre, Bangladesh.

External Affiliations

  • Proctor—Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (February 2022 – February 2023)
  • Member Secretary—First Year First Semester Admission Test Committee 2021-2022, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (July 2022 – December 2022)
  • Additional Director—Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh (February 2021 – August 2024)
  • Member Secretary—Quality Assurance Committee, Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (February 2021 – August 2024)
  • Member Secretary—2nd International Conference on “Refugee, Resistance, and Recognition: Global Literary Representations in [Post]postcolonial Perspectives,” Organizer: Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh (February 24–25, 2023)
  • Joint Secretary—1st International Conference on “Bangladesh at 50: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges,” Organizer: Faculty of Social Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh (September 16-17, 2022)
  • Member Secretary—University Disciplinary Committee, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (February 2022 – February 2023)
  • Member Secretary—University Proctorial Committee, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (February 2022 – February 2023)
  • Student Advisor—Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh (November 2021 – October 2023)
  • Career Profile Advisor (CPA, Volunteer)—Western’s Employment Resource Centre (WERC), Western University, Canada (September 2020 – August 2021)
  • Member—Modern Language Association (MLA), Member No.: 185019 (May 2014 – Present)
  • Member—Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS), Membership ID: 258 (May 2014 – Present)
  • Editorial Member—Metropolitan University Journal of English, Metropolitan University, Sylhet, Bangladesh (July 2015 – Present)
  • Copy Editor—The Scattered Pelican, The official graduate journal of Comparative Literature at Western University, Canada (September 2020 – August 2021)
  • Workshop Facilitator (WF, Volunteer)—Western’s Employment Resource Centre (WERC), Western University, Canada (September 2020 – August 2021)
  • Western Peer Leader (WPL, Volunteer) —Western Student Experience (WSE), Western University, Canada (May 2020 – August 2021)
  • Section Editor—Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress, Morgan State University, Baltimore, USA (August 2021 – Present)
  • Editorial Reviewer—Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, Morgan State University, Baltimore, USA (August 2020 – Present)
  • Member—Organizing Committee, The 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference: Camp/Camp: The Collision of Style and Biopolitics, The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, Comparative Literature, and Hispanic Studies, Western University, Canada (1-2 October 2020)
  • Volunteer—The Pride Library, Western University, Canada (September 2017 – April 2020)
  • Regional Coordinator—English Language Training Program, M A G Osmani Medical College, Bangladesh. (March 2017, March 2013 and April 2011)
  • Assistant Proctor—Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (January 2016 – August 2016)
  • Coordinator—Comparative Literature Graduate Research Forum (CLGRF), Department of Languages and Cultures, Western University, Canada (January 2020 – April 2020)
  • Coordinator—English Council, Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (June 2016 – August 2017)
  • Assistant Proctor—Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (July 2010 – November 2011)
  • Treasurer—English Council, Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (June 2011 – May 2013)
  • Member—Leadership Development Forum, Metropolitan University, Bangladesh (June 2007 – October 2009)
  • Secretary—English Council, Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (June 2004 – May 2006)
  • Founding Member—English Council, Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (July 2001 – June 2004)
  • Member (ID: BD5833)—Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (Asia TEFL), (Jan 2012 – Present)
  • Member (ID: 308905)—TESOL International Association, (February 2022 – Present)
  • Member—The Promethic Association of Graduate English Students (pAGES), Dept. of English, Film, and Theatre, University of Manitoba (October 2013 – April 2015)
  • Team Member—Group Study Exchange (GSE) Program from Bangladesh, Rotary International District 3280 to Canada, Rotary International District (April 2011 – June 2011)
  • Member—Disciplinary Committee, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (January 2016 – August 2016)
  • Member—Disciplinary Committee, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh (July 2010 – November 2011)

Journal Publications

  • 1. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne (Co-authored). “The Rohingya Muslims’ Crisis in the Rakhine State of Myanmar: ‘Recognition as Toleration’ and ‘Religious Toleration’” (Book Chapter). The Displaced Rohingya: A Tale of a Vulnerable Community. Eds. S. T. M. Haque, B. Siddiqi, and M. R. Bhuiyan. Routledge, August 2023, 35-51.
  • 2. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne (Co-authored). “A Study of Trauma in Adwaita Mallabarman’s A River Called Titash” (Book Chapter). Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past. Ed. Md. Abu Shahid Abdullah, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022, 58-75.
  • 3. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne. "Global Enterprise: Home and Human Relationship in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest." SUST Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2021, 09-23.
  • 4. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne. “Subverting Gender Normativity in McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding.” Inquest – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Vol. 1, 2021, 155-168.
  • 5. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne. “The Premature Burial: Fear and Sacrifice in Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’” North Western University Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020, 176-186.
  • 6. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne (Co-authored). “Rhetoric of Kinship and Manifest Domesticity: A Rifkinian Reading of Zitkala-Ša’s American Indian Stories and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Life among the Piutes.” English Forum: Journal of the Department of English, Gauhati University, Vol. 7, 2019, 63-75.
  • 7. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne (Co-authored). “Dantean and Sedgwickian Examination of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: Truth Weaved in the Thread of Falsehood.” American Journal of Research, Vol. 11-12, 2019, pp. 4-17.
  • 8. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne. “What is Violence? On Hannah Arendt’s Critique of Frantz Fanon.” Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, Vol. 10, 2019, 71-77.
  • 9. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne. “Trauma Memory in Wolfe’s Letters from Verdun” (Book Chapter). The Great War and Our Mindscopes: Centenary Essays. Eds. Fakrul Alam, Tahmina Ahmed, Zerin Alam, Dhaka: Writers.ink, January 2017, pp. 204-215.
  • 10. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne. “Gentleman in Great Expectations: Victorian Ideology.” SUST Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2016, 57-62.
  • 11. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne. “Cultural Relativism and Human Rights in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story.” BRAC University Journal, Vol. XI, No. 1, 2016, 17-22.
  • 12. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne. “Colonial Separation and Identity in Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen.” Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, Special Volume, 2015, 51-57.
  • 13. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne. “Arundhati Roy’s Power Politics: Dams and the Dangers of Privatization.” Metropolitan University Journal of English, Vol.1, No. 1, 2015, pp. 56-64.
  • 14. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne (Co-authored). “A Passage to India and Heart of Darkness: A Comparative Study of Anti-Colonialism.” SUST Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2014, pp. 8-11.
  • 15. Ismail, Md. Ishrat Ibne. “Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Pristine Document of the Lost Identity of a Mighty Masculine.” Metropolitan University Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2014, pp. 23-33.

Conference

  • 1. “Bangladeshi Novels of Human Rights: The Crisis of Citizenship in Adib Khan’s Novels.” MLA 2021 Panel Crisis of Belonging: Citizenship and Censorship in South Asian Literatures, 7-10 January 2021, Toronto, Canada
  • 2. “A Study on Online-based Education and Learning in Bangladesh.” The 5th International Postgraduate Colloquium (InPac 2021), 14 July, 2021, Universiti Sains Malaysia
  • 3. “A Cross-Cultural and Rhetoric Comparative Analysis of an excerpt from Adib Khan’s Seasonal Adjustments.” International Conference on Entangled Englishes in Translation Spaces, 02-04 September 2021, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
  • 4. “Home, Identity, and Migration in Maria Chaudhuri’s Beloved Strangers: A Memoir.” CACLALS at Congress 2021: Ecologies of Alliance in a Divided Age (Online), June 7- June 11, 2021, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), Canada
  • 5. “1947 Partition and Shift of Space in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India and Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?” The 2nd International e-Conference on Literature: Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future (ICL 2020), 29-30 July 2020, Universiti Sains Malaysia
  • 6. “Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea: Spivak’s Critique and the Subaltern Silence.” International Conference on Postcolonial Perspectives: Language, Literature and Culture and the Global South, 14-15 February 2020, Daffodil International University, Bangladesh
  • 7. “The Rohingya Muslims’ Crisis in the Rakhine State of Myanmar.” International Conference on Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions, 27 July 2019, North South University, Bangladesh
  • 8. “Lenny: The (Dis)abled Narrator in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India.” Recalibrations: York University English Graduate Conference, 10 May 2019, York University, Canada
  • 9. “Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others: Images of Violence, Suffering, and Ethics of Response.” Tri-University Graduate Symposium 2019: Responsibility in the Humanities, 12 April 2019, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • 10. “Subverting Gender Normativity in Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding.” MLL and CSTC Graduate Conference on Coding - Decoding – Decoding, 14-15 March 2019, Western University, Canada
  • 11. “Naseeb, Escape, and Women Transformation in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell.” International Seminar on Identity, History, and Narrative in Contemporary Afghan Literature, 6-8 February 2019, Department of English, Gauhati University, Assam, India
  • 12. “Textual Interpretation and Allegoresis in The Koran: The Batinists vs. the Zahirites.” International Conference on Transgressing/Transcending Borders Through Translation, 25-26 January 2019, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 13. “Global Enterprise: Home and Human Relationship in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest.” International Conference: Language, Literature, Culture and Politics: Marx’s Bicentenary Conference, 30 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2018, Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
  • 14. “Postcolonial Resistance in Erna Brodber’s Myal.” International Conference: Diasporas and Diversities: Teaching English in a Changing World/5-7 November 2015, Department of English, Independent University (IUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 15. “Colonial Separation and Identity in Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen.” International Conference: Language, Literature and Community, 10-11 July 2015, Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
  • 16. “Trauma Memory in Wolfe’s Letters from Verdun.” International Conference: The Great War and English Studies, 18-19 December 2014, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 17. “Cultural Relativism and Human Rights in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story.” Literary Eclectic IX, 3-4 October 2014, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Teaching

  • Professor (March 2024–Present), Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  • Associate Professor (October 2018–March 2024), Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (September 2020–December 2020), “Italian Journeys,” Department of Languages and Cultures, Western University, Canada
  • Graduate Student Assistant (August 2020), Department of Languages and Cultures, Western University, Canada
  • Graduate Student Assistant (September 2019–April 2020), Department of Languages and Cultures, Western University, Canada
  • Graduate Student Assistant (September 2018–April 2019), Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Western University, Canada
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (September 2017–April 2018), “Utopias and Visions of the Future,” Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Western University, Canada
  • Assistant Professor (February 2012–October 2018), Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (September 2014–April 2015), “Literature Since 1900,” Department of English, Film, and Theatre, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (January 2015–April 2015), “Thematic Approaches to the Study of Literature,” International College of Manitoba, Canada
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (January 2014–April 2014), “Thematic Approaches to the Study of Literature,” Department of English, Film, and Theatre, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Graduate Research Assistant (September 2013 – May 2015), Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Lecturer (October 2009–February 2012), Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  • Lecturer (June 2008–October 2009), Department of English, Metropolitan University, Bangladesh
  • Teaching Assistant (May 2007–June 2008), Department of English, Metropolitan University, Bangladesh

Awards & Recognition

  • Education Board Scholarship, Comilla Education Board (1998)
  • Department of English Annual Scholarships, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  • Book Prize in Convocation 2007, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  • Master’s International Entrance Scholarship (Declined), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Windsor, Canada
  • International Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • John Meredith Robinson Memorial Scholarship, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Graduate Student Conference Travel Funding, Department of English, Film, and Theatre, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Graduate Student Travel Award, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Dr. W. John Rempel Memorial Scholarship, Department of English, Film, and Theatre, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Bangladesh-Sweden Trust Fund (BSTF) Grant, Economic Relations Division (ERD), Ministry of Finance of the Government of Bangladesh
  • Ryerson Graduate Fellowship (Declined), Yeats School of Graduate Studies, Ryerson University, Canada
  • Laurier Graduate Scholarship (Declined), Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
  • Laurier Graduate Fellowship (Declined), Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
  • Faculty of Arts and Humanities Chair’s Entrance Scholarship, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Western University, Canada
  • University Research Support Grants, University Grants Commission, Bangladesh
  • Society of Graduate Students (SOGS) Travel Grants, Society of Graduate Students (SOGS)/The Grad Club, Western University, Canada
  • Graduate Student Travel Grants, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Western University, Canada
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), Western University, Canada
  • Faculty of Arts and Humanities Alumni Graduate Awards, Western University, Canada
  • Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund Bursary, Society of Graduate Students SOGS, Western University, Canada
  • Graduate Student Travel Grants, Department of Languages and Cultures, Western University, Canada
  • MLA Convention 2021 Travel Grant, Modern Language Association, United States of America
  • Western Graduate Research Scholarship (WGRS) in Comparative Literature, Western University, Canada

Graduate Supervision

  • 1. Supervised graduate and undergraduate dissertations