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 English 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, sociolinguistics, 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. He has contributed chapters in a
good number of international anthologies and 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, plenary speaker and resource person. He conducts research work
and adjudicates M. Phil. and doctoral thesis of various prestigious
universities of home and abroad. Dr. Hossain served as a faculty in Rajshahi
university of Engineering and Technology (RUET), National University,
Bangladesh. He was designated as Professor of English of Dhaka City College. He
has 23 years of teaching experience in graduation and post-graduation levels.
At present he is serving as a senior faculty member of the
Department of English, Green University of Bangladesh.