Professor Dr. Elham Hossain is an academic, essayist, translator and editor. He did his BA (Honours) and MA 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 seven books. Angst and Anxieties: Historical and Psychological Parallels in Chinua Achebe’s Trilogy, The Colonial Encounter and the Postcolonial Ambivalence, Africa: Sahitya O Nondonbhabna, Africar Chotogolpo O Sahityochinta, Africar Sahityo Vabna are some of his seminal books. He has translated Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and The Trouble with Nigeria and Ben Okri’s The Freedom Artist into Bangla.
A good number of his research articles have been published in the academic journals of home and abroad. Dr. Hossain has participated in a good number of national and international seminars, colloquia and conferences and presented research papers there. He also delivers lectures as a resource person in many national and international seminars and conferences. His area of interest covers literary theories, anthropology and South Asian and African literature and culture. He edits a periodical Africar Alo (Light of Africa) published from Centre for Studies in African Literatures and Cultures, Dhaka. He has more than twenty years of teaching experience in graduation and post-graduation levels. At present he is serving as Professor of English in Dhaka City College, Dhaka and teaching the students of graduation and post-graduation levels under National University, Bangladesh.