Office Address:
Department of English,
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
Phone: +8801717896188
Email: sahelee912-eng@sust.edu
Education
MA in Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS), University of London;
MA in English (SUST)
Research Interests
Gender, literature, and historiography
Previous Research Project
1. Worked as a co-investigator on a project titled, “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” funded by the SUST Research Centre in 2020-21.
2. Worked as a co-investigator on a project titled “Socio-economic Effects of Micro-credit on Women in Bangladesh: A study on Sylhet” in funded by the SUST Research Centre in 2017-18.
External Affiliations
Commonwealth Scholarships Alumni Association
SOAS, University of London alumni network
Journal Publications
1. Dipa, Sahelee P. “Subversion of Colonial Masculinity and Manifestation of Gendered Nationalism in Letters of 1971 (Ekattorer Chithi)” Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, vol 13, no.4, 2022, pp. 27–41.
2. Dipa, Sahelee P. “Using Students' Answer Scripts in Developing Writing Skills at Tertiary Level: A Bangladeshi Perspective.” Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, vol. 10, 2019, pp.133–142.
3. Dipa, Sahelee P. “In unmaking the myth of othering and its aftermath: A comparative study between Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.” Harvest: Jahangirnagar University Studies in Language and Literature, vol. 32, 2017, pp.29–43.
Conference
1. Dipa, Sahelee P. (2022, November 13-14). An eco-critical reading of Rizia Rahman’s Sun Green Blood (Surjo Shobuj Rokto) [Paper Presentation] 2 nd International Conference, “Issues and Discourses around Liberal Arts and Humanities”, Faculty of Arts, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
2. Dipa, Sahelee P. (2022, September 17) Questioning the Global Sisterhood Project and Prospect for feminist solidarity across borders: A study on Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Rizia Rahman’s Sun Green Blood (Surjo Shobuj Rokto) [Paper Presentation] under sub-theme titled (Gender Issues in South Asia).1st International conference of Social Sciences on Bangladesh at 50: Achievements, Prospects and Challenges, Faculty of Social Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, SUST, Sylhet.
3. Dipa, Sahelee P. (2022, January 7). Reclaiming Bengali Masculinity and negotiating the concept of Gendered Nationalism in Letters of 1971(Ekattorer Chithi). [Paper Presentation]. International conference on Borders, Diasporas, and Multilingualism in English Studies, Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, SUST, Sylhet.
4. Dipa, Sahelee P. (2021, October 30). Afghan Women in Syed Mujtaba Ali’s Deshe Bideshe and the question of Agency and Intersectionality [Paper Presentation]. International virtual colloquium on “From Kabuliwala to the Fall of Kabul: Afghanistan in Popular Imagination”, Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Dhaka.
5. Dipa, Sahelee P. (2017, December 27) Negotiating Spatial and Psychological belonging in a class-entangled transnational state in Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of what We Know [Paper Presentation] International Conference titled “Refugees in the Public Imagination: Discourse of (Dis) location and (Dis) placement”, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Dhaka.
6. Dipa, Sahelee P. (2017, November 24) Reuse of students’ script in Developing Writing Skill [Paper Presentation]. International Conference titled “Language: Teaching and Learning” arranged by Institute of Modern Languages (IML), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
7. Dipa, Sahelee P. (2016, May 27-28) Magic Realism: Politics of Naming and Locating [Paper Presentation] International Conference titled “Magic and Literature”, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Dhaka
Teaching
Associate Professor, Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, 19 June 2023–present
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, April 2015 –present
Lecturer, Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, November 2013 –April 2015
Lecturer, Department of English, Sylhet International University, April 2012 to November 2013
Awards & Recognition
Recipient of Commonwealth Scholarship (CSC) 2018, UK