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 Chinua Achebe in the University of
Dhaka. Dr. Hossain has authored sixteen books on the diverse spectrum of
colonial and postcolonial literature. He has translated a good number of fictions,
non-fictions, short stories, essays and other genres from African, South Asian
and Latin American literatures.
Dr. Hossain’s field of studies encompasses a
broad spectrum of colonial and postcolonial literature, South Asian and African
art, culture and literature, hermeneutics, linguistics, philosophy,
anthropology and history. He is a member of the editorial boards of a good
number of academic journals and he reviews research articles for national and
international peer reviewed academic journals. Scores of his research articles
have been published in national and international journals. He has participated
in a huge number of national and international conferences as paper presenter,
keynote speaker and resource person. Dr. Hossain served as a faculty in
Rajshahi university of Engineering and Technology (RUET), National University,
Bangladesh and Dhaka City College. At present he is serving as Associate Professor
in the Department of English of Green University of Bangladesh. He has 23 years
of teaching experience in graduation and post-graduation levels.