Faculty Profile

Dr Muhammad Alamgir Toimoor

Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Professor Institute of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801718337348
  • Email: toimoor@sust.edu

Biography

Dr. Muhammad Alamgir Toimoor was born in Gold Coat, Kushtia in 1966. He received his early education from local schools and college. He then did his undergrad and grad from University of Dhaka majoring in English Literature and subsequently obtained an MS in English and American literature from City University of New York followed by a PhD degree from Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh. Dr. Toimoor joined Shahjalal University of Science and Tech. in January 1999 as a Lecturer of English and is currently working with same institution as a Professor. He has also served SUST as Director of Institute of Modern Languages. Dr. Toimoor has authored more than 20 books, which were printed by different publishers from Dhaka and Kolkata.

Education

  • PhD
  • MS
  • MA
  • BA (Honors)

Research Interests

  • English Literature during the Renaissance
  • 18th Century English Literature
  • African and Middle Eastern Literature
  • 21st Century Literature

Active Research Project

  • Research on H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon

Previous Research Project

  • Project titled: "Students' Use of Off-Class Hours in Campus and its Effectiveness: A Case Study on the Department of English Students at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) from July 2018 to June 2020"

Journal Publish

  • 1. Toimoor, Muhammad Alamgir. “The Foreseen and the Seen: White Community’s Marauding Bearing towards their Own Kind in The Late Bourgeois World.” SUST Journal of Social Sciences, vol. 31, no. 2, December 2020.
  • 2. ---. “Waiting for the Barbarians as a Bildungsroman.” SUST Journal of Social Sciences, vol. 30, no. 2, December 2019.
  • 3. Toimoor, Muhammad Alamgir and Touhida Sultana. “David Lurie in Disgrace: A Yardstick to Enumerate the Treatment of Women in Post-Apartheid South Africa Sliding to an Alexandrian World.” SUST Journal of Social Sciences, vol. 25, no. 2, December 2016.
  • 4. Toimoor, Muhammad Alamgir and Sanzida Rahman. “Lady Macbeth and Clytemnestra: The Separatists in a Marauding World of Patriarchy.” SUST Journal of Social Sciences, vol. 25, no. 2, December 2016.
  • 5. ---. “The Fakir and the Fish.” Journal of Postcolonial Wrirting: Routledge: London, vol. 49, no. 3, July 2013.
  • 6. Toimoor, Muhammad Alamgir, et al. “Feasibility Study of Rainwater Harvesting System in Sylhet City.” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: Springer, New York, vol. 184, no. 1, June 2012.
  • 7. ---. “The Lack of Cohesion among Political Parties, the Nation’s Emergence as a Monolingual Country, and the Process of the English language Acquisition and Learning among Students in Bangladesh: An analysis.” SUST Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2009.
  • 8. ---. “Antoinette’s Insanity: An Inevitable Outcome of Colonialism.” SUST Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 2008.
  • 9. ---. “The Impact of Socio-Cultural Difference on Tagore’s Translations of his Short Stories.” SUST Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, 2007.
  • 10. ---. “Rise of Middle Class and Class Conflict in Decker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday.” SUST Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2005.
  • 11. ---. “Hero Hieronimo in Villains’ Veil.” Critique: Islamic University Studies in Literature, vol. 2, 2004.
  • 12. ---. “Pahom: A Spokesman of Tolstoy’s Frustration.” SUST Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2003.

External Affiliations

  • Director of Institute of Modern Languages, SUST
  • Reviewer of project proposal and report under SUST Research Center
  • Member of the Board of Editors of SUST Journal of Social Sciences
  • Member of Academic Council of SUST
  • Chief Advisor to SUST Speaker's Club
  • Chief Moderator of SUST School of Debate

Awards & Recognition

  • Received Graduate Scholarship from University of Dhaka

Teaching

  • Professor of English at SUST since January 2017
  • Associate Professor of English at SUST since April 2013
  • Assistant Professor of English at SUST since December 2004
  • Lecturer of English at SUST since January 1999

Graduate Supervision

  • Currently supervising 1 MPhil fellow
  • Supervised at more than 30 graduate students