Md. Rezaul Karim
Assistant Professor, BUFT
About
Mr. Md. Rezaul Karim obtained his BA Honours in 2017 in English Language and Literature from Gopalganj Science and Technology University, Gopalganj, Bangladesh (previously Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University, Gopalganj), and his MA in English Literature and Cultural Studies from the same university in 2018. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Previously, he also worked at other two different private universities. He has authored four journal articles. One of his recent publications is "Capitalism, War and Religion: A Marxist Study of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children" in the NUB Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2024.
His current research papers which are in progress include:
1. "Coloniality, Epistemic Disobedience and the Imperial Self in Tennyson's "Ulysses": A Decolonial Inquiry" (Accepted in Journal of English Studies, a Scopus indexed Q2 journal)
2. "Policing Manhood: Decolonizing Masculinity through Agbala Logic in Achebe and Contemporary South Asia" (Under review in Scopus indexed journal)
Awards:
1. Dean's Award for Scholastic Excellence (awarded by the university for recognition of outstanding academic achievement for the First position in B.A Honours on January 1, 2019 )
2. Best Paper Award/Certificate (awarded by the authority of IMPACT Journal for the contribution of literary research in 2020)
ORCID: 0000-0002-9221-9733
Teaching/Research Specialization
The areas of his specialization or interest include:
- Decoloniality of English Liteary Writings
- Postcolonial literature
- Shakespeare
- Modern literature
- Marxism
- Feminism
- Gender Studies
Publications
[1]. Rabbi, Md. Fazle, Ashik Istiak and Md. Rezaul Karim, (2024). “Capitalism, War and Religion: A Marxist Study of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children”
Name: NUB Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Volumn: Vol. 5, Issue 1[2]. Istiak Ashik and Md. Rezaul Karim, (2020). “Identity and Alterity in The Merchant of Venice and in The Tempest: A Comparison”
Name: Green University Review of Social Science Volumn: Vol. 6, Issue 2[3]. 3. Karim, Md. Rezaul, (2019). “Male Subjugation and Female Submissiveness in Syed Waliullah’s Tree Without Roots: A Feminist Reading”
Name: Praxis: Journal of the Department of English, Rajshahi University Volumn: Vol. 10, Issue 2018-19[4]. 4. Karim, Md. Rezaul, (2019). “Spiritual Barrenness, War, and Alienation: Reading Eliot’s The Waste Land”
Name: IMPACT: International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature Volumn: Vol. 7, Issue 6