CURRICULUM VITAE DR. MD. SAJIDUL ISLAM Associate Professor Department of English Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh. Contact No.(+91)9997580079 Email id: mdsajidulislam@gmail.com;sajidul.en@amu.ac.in ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: Secondary School Examination (10 th ) from West Bengal Board in the year 1995 with First Division. Higher Secondary Examination (10+2) from West Bengal Board in the year 1997 with First Division. B.A. (Hons.) in English from A.M.U., Aligarh in the year 2001 with First Division. M.A. (English) from A.M.U., Aligarh in the year 2003 with First Division. Qualified UGC-NET (English) - June 2003. Ph. D. (English) from A.M.U., Aligarh, in 2012 on the topic Art, Sex and Multiculturalism in the Select Novels of Hanif Kureishi'. Post-graduate Certificate in Teaching of English (PGCTE) in 2013 from English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Working as Associate Professor in the Department of English, A.M.U., Aligarh since October 28, 2016. Working as Assistant Professor (Stage II) in the Department of English, A.M.U., Aligarh since April 05, 2007. Worked as Lecturer in the Department of English, Haringhata Mahavidyalaya (Affiliated to Kalyani University), Nadia (W.B.) from September 25, 2006 to April 04, 2007. Worked as Lecturer in the Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh from August 7, 2004 to May 15, 2005 and as Guest Faculty from September 21, 2005 to May 15, 2006.
2 Worked as Lecturer at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi from January 2, 2004 to August 6, 2004. PAPERS PUBLISHED: (11 research papers) "Ireland Writes Back: A Study of the Poetry of Seamus Heaney" published in the Journal of Faculty of Arts, A.M.U., Aligarh, 2004, Vol. 2, No. 1. Writing Multiculturalism: A Case Study of Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Kavita Daswani's Salam, Paris' published in the Journal of Faculty of Arts, A.M.U., Aligarh, 2010,Vol.6 No.1 Assertion of Faith and Culture in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Kavita Daswani's Salam, Paris' published in a volume, Literature of Small Cultures: An Assertion of Difference edited by Deepinder Randhawa(2010), Patiala, India. Representing Culture: A Comparative study of Qaisra Shahraz's Typhoon and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart' published in a volume, The Holy and The Unholy edited by A.R. Kidwai and M. Asim Siddiqui (2011), Sarup Books: New Delhi. Teaching Listening Comprehension' published in Rajasthan ELTAI Journal, Vol. 11. March 2014. Communicative Language Teaching and the Teaching of Grammar' published in Rajasthan ELTAI Journal, Vol. 12. March 2015. Reading the Mind of Artists: An Analysis of the Artistic Selves in Hanif Kureishi's Novels' published in The Touchstone (an International Refereed Journal of English Literature and Language) Vol. 2 Issue 1. Spring 2015. Decentering the Sexual Identity in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia' published in Lingaya's International Refereed Journal of English Language and Literature (LIRJELL), Vol.2, Issue 2. August 2015. Multiculturalism and Decentering the Racial Identity in the Fictional World of Hanif Kureishi' published in International Journal on Multicultural Literature, Vol. 6, No.1. January 2016. Counter Discourse of Global War on Terror in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist' published in a volume, Believing and Belonging edited by A.R. Kidwai and M. Asim Siddiqui (2016), Viva Books: New Delhi.
3 Negotiating Cultural Identity: A Study of Sarfraz Manzoor's Memoir Greetings from Bury Park' published in a volume, Believing and Belonging edited by A.R. Kidwai and M. Asim Siddiqui (2016), Viva Books: New Delhi. PAPERS PRESENTED: (11 research papers) "Afghan Women in the Novels of Khaled Hosseini" presented in the Eighth International Conference on South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-08) organized by the Department of Linguistics, A.M.U., Aligarh in collaboration with CIIL, Mysore. January 6-8, 2008. "Assertion of Faith and Culture in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Kavita Daswani's Salam, Paris" presented in the UGC sponsored National Conference on Literature of Small Culture: An Assertion of Difference organized by Khalsa College Patiala (Punjab), 26 th and 27th March, 2010. "Literary Orientalism: A Muslim Perspective" presented in the International Conference on Islam and English in India: Cultural, Literary, Pedagogic, Historical, Political and Philosophical Encounters organized by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad under the UGC-DSA Programme, 6 th -8 th September 2011. "Technology and Language Teaching" presented in the 18 th international Conference on Transformations in ELT: Contexts, Agent and Opportunities organized by Nepal English Teachers' Association at Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal. 16-18 February, 2013. "Multiculturalism and Literature" presented in the National Workshop on Minorities, Multiculturalism and Law' jointly organized by Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh; Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra, Dehradun and NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad on 30-31 March, 2013. "Fiction as a Tool for Humanizing: A Humanistic Reading of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native" presented in the International Conference on English Language and Literature - A Tool for Humanizing' organized by Lingaya's University, Faridabad on 23-24 February, 2015.
4 "Reflective Teaching as a Tool for Continuous Professional Development in Practice Teaching" presented in the National Seminar-cum- Workshop on Practice Teaching: Trends and Issues' organized by AMU Centre, Kishangunj (Bihar) on 26-27 February, 2015. "Cultural, Racial and Ethnic Hybridity in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia" presented in the National Interdisciplinary Seminar on Trajectory of Indian Diaspora, Culture and Ethnicity' organized by the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow on 20-21 March, 2015. "Developing Employability Skill of English Language Communication of Engineering Students through Content Based and Communicative Approach" presented in the 3 rd International Conference on Skill Development & Technological Innovations for Economic Growth' organized by Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad on 28 November, 2015. "Ambivalence and Reconciliation of Cultural Identity in Sarfraz Manzoor's Memoir Greetings from Bury Park" presented in the National Conference on Crossing the Borders: Multicultural dialogues in Literature' organized by Khalsa College Patiala on 13 December, 2015. "Alternative English Language Instruction: An Evaluation of English Access Microscholarship Program in AMU, Aligarh" presented in the 3 rd International Conference on No One Left Behind: The Role of ELT in Promoting Inclusive Growth' organized by Amity University, Lucknow on 5-6 March, 2016. SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED: UGC - Sponsored International Seminar on "Re-evaluation: 16 th & 17 th Century Metaphysical Poetry", Department of English, University of Kalyani, Kalyani (W.B.) on November 21, 2006. UGC - Sponsored International Seminar on "Double Exposure: Literature and Other Arts", Department of English, University of Kalyani, Kalyani (W.B.) on December 11, 2006.
5 Seminar-Cum-Workshop on Postcolonial Literature organized by the Department of English, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut (U.P.) 27 th and 28 th March 2009. Attended a one-day English Language Teaching Workshop organized by Oxford University Press in New Delhi on November 25, 2013. Attended a three-day English Language Teaching Workshop on Designing Course Objectives and Alternative Assessments' organized by The Department of English, A.M.U., Aligarh in collaboration with Regional English Language Office (RELO), US Embassy, New Delhi. ORIENTATION / SUBJECT REFRESHER/ TRAINING COURSES: Participated in Subject Refresher Course in English from 3 rd February 2009 to 23 rd Feb. 2009 and obtained "A" grade from UGC Academic Staff College, A.M.U., Aligarh. Participated in Special Summer School Programme from 13 th July to 01 st August, 2012 and obtained "A" grade from UGC Academic Staff College, A.M.U., Aligarh. ATDOP(an online teacher development course) from American English Institute, University of Oregon, USA in 2012 with scholarship from Regional English Language Office (RELO), US Embassy, New Delhi. TEACHING ASSINGMENT: Designed and taught an elective course entitled Multicultural Studies at the Post-graduate level Teaching ELT courses at the UG and PG level Teaching Hardy's novel The Return of the Native at B.A. (Hons.) level Teaching Elizabethan Poetry B.A. (Hons.) level Teaching Othello at B.A. Subsidiary level
6 Teaching Essays and Short stories at B.A. Subsidiary level Teaching Romantic and Victorian Poetry at B.A. Subsidiary level Research Works Supervised: M. Phil. Dissertation entitled A Postcolonial Study of Arundhati Roy's God of Small Things' (Awarded in 2014) Ph. D. Dissertation entitled India in Transition: Society and Culture in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya' (Awarded in 2014) Ph. D. Dissertation entitled An Eco-critical Study of Ruskin Bond's Select Short Stories' (Ongoing) Ph. D. Dissertation entitled Nation, Caste and Class: A Study of Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Roy's God of Small Things, Desai's An Inheritance of Loss and Adiga's White Tiger (Ongoing) Ph. D. Dissertation entitled Patriarchy and Female Identity in the Select novels of Tehmina Durrani and Tahmima Anam' (Ongoing) Ph. D. Dissertation entitled A Comparative Study of the Select Novels of Alice Walker and Radwa Ashour' (Ongoing) RESPONSIBILITIES OTHER THAN TEACHING IN THE DEPARTMENT: Subject Counsellor and Evaluator of Assignments for English of IGNOU at A.M.U. Study Centre, Aligarh.(2007-2011) Scrutinizer for Compulsory verification of marks of Examination Answer Books and Admission Forms, Department of English, A.M.U., Aligarh. Acted as Rapporteur in the National Seminar on Minority Education at CEPECAMI, A.M.U., Aligarh, March 7 th and 8 th, 2009. Warden, Sir Ziauddin Hall, A.M.U., Aligarh from May 2009 to April 2011. Warden, Nadeem Tareen Hall, A.M.U., Aligarh from June 2012 till March 2015 Resource Person, English Access Microscholarship Program, a globally ongoing project of the US Department of State teaching English
7 Communication to the under-privileged group of school students, at UGC Academic Staff College, A.M.U., Aligarh. PERSONAL DETAILS: Father's Name : Mr. Md. Saiful Islam Mother's Name : Mrs. Mahafuza Begum Date of Birth : 25.08.1979 Marital Status : Married Nationality : Indian Languages Known : English, Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu (Dr. Md. Sajidul Islam)