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
M. Phil. dissertation on the colonial literature and doctoral dissertation on
the novels of the Nigerian litterateur Chinua Achebe in the University of
Dhaka. He has authored 19 books on colonial and postcolonial literature and
translated a good number of African, South Asian and Latin American writings. He
has published more than fifty research articles in the academic journal of home
and abroad. He has twenty two years of teaching experience in tertiary level. He
was designated as Professor of English at Dhaka City College under National
University of Bangladesh. At present, he is working as a faculty of the Department of English at Green University of Bangladesh.
His area of interest includes translation studies, African
literatures and cultures, philosophy, literary theories, environmental
imperialism, ecological racism, diaspora literature and subaltern studies.
He edits a bi-lingual literary periodical titled AFRICAR ALO (Light of Africa). He also reviews research articles for various
prestigious journals of home and abroad.