Faculty of Arts and Social Science
Department of English
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, IU
M.A. in English Literature , Jahangirnagar University
B.A. (Hons.) in English, Jahangirnagar University
Dr. Rahman M. Mahbub, is an Associate Professor in English at the City University. He is also a critic, academic, translator, bilingual writer and a poet. Dr. Mahbub earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature . He has been teaching English Language and Literature for over 22 years at different universities. He has published – in both English and Bengali - a good number of creative articles on literature, literary criticism, socio-cultural issues and on topics of varied interest in different journals, national dailies, periodicals, little magazines. He has also published twenty-four Research Papers and Book Reviews in reputed journals. He has presented four conference papers in Bangladesh and India as keynote speaker and resource person. He has fourteen books to his credit . Besides academic responsibilities he was also the member secretary of Seminar and Debate Committee, Editorial board member of various publications committees at different institutions. He has coordinated and facilitated English Language Training for English Teachers, Medical College Students, Nurses and Senior Paramedics and trained university students on translation and creative writing. Currently, he is the Head of the Department and Chair, Program Self-Assessment Committee, IQAC, Department of English, City University . He also worked as an adjunct/guest faculty and/or External Examiner at Jahangirnagar University, BUP, DIU, and GB. He has been working as an Associate Editor, IDEAS: A Journal of Literature Arts and Culture , since 2015; Associate Editor, BODHI, International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science, India; Executive Editor, City University Journal, Bangladesh; and Reviewer, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Sciences (IJRISS), India. He has edited a good number of wall magazines since his school days including KOTHA arr LEKHA ( 2010- 2022). He is one of the PhD Thesis Evaluation Panel Members & External Examiners at Universitiesin India.Dr. Mahbub has also Supervised Theses Papers/ Dissertation and course-project works (of Translation Studies) of more than 500 students.
Twenty two years
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Name: Dr. Rahman M. Mahbub
Degree and University attended:
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, IU
M.A. in English Literature , Jahangirnagar University
B.A. (Hons.) in English, Jahangirnagar University
Contact Information:
E-mail: rahmanmahbub.eng@cityuniversity.ac.bd
rahmanmmahbub27@gmail.com
Mobile: 01878677729
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Short Introduction:
Dr. Rahman M. Mahbub, is an Associate Professor in English at the City University. He is also a critic, academic, translator, bilingual writer and a poet.
Dr. Mahbub earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature . He has been teaching English Language and Literature for over 22 years at different universities. He has published – in both English and Bengali - a good number of creative articles on literature, literary criticism, socio-cultural issues and on topics of varied interest in different journals, national dailies, periodicals, little magazines.
He has also published twenty-four Research Papers and Book Reviews in reputed journals. He has presented four conference papers in Bangladesh and India as keynote speaker and resource person. He has fourteen books to his credit . Besides academic responsibilities he was also the member secretary of Seminar and Debate Committee, Editorial board member of various publications committees at different institutions. He has coordinated and facilitated English Language Training for English Teachers, Medical College Students, Nurses and Senior Paramedics and trained university students on translation and creative writing.
Currently, he is the Head of the Department and Chair, Program Self-Assessment Committee, IQAC, Department of English, City University . He also worked as an adjunct/guest faculty and/or External Examiner at Jahangirnagar University, BUP, DIU, and GB.
He has been working as an Associate Editor, IDEAS: A Journal of Literature Arts and Culture , since 2015; Associate Editor, BODHI, International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science, India; Executive Editor, City University Journal, Bangladesh; and Reviewer, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Sciences (IJRISS), India. He has edited a good number of wall magazines since his school days including KOTHA arr LEKHA ( 2010- 2022).
He is one of the PhD Thesis Evaluation Panel Members & External Examiners at Universitiesin India.Dr. Mahbub has also Supervised Theses Papers/ Dissertation and course-project works (of Translation Studies) of more than 500 students.
Faculty and Department Affiliation:
Department of English,
Faculty of Arts and Social Science.
Teaching Experience: Twenty two years
Research & Publication: 44 Publications: 25 Research Articles, 4 Conference Papers (India, Malaysia, Turkey and Bangladesh), 15 Books and 3 Books on progress.
Published papers :
1. “Beckett’s Godot: Not Just an Enigma”, Harvest (Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature), Volume 26, 2010 – 2011.
2. “Nora: Birth of a Free Soul” Harvest (Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature), Volume 27, 2012-2013.
3. A Book Chapter on “A Great Soul Indeed” Memoirs of a Life Insurance Icon KhudaBuksh, Reviewers Choice Award winner, Library of Congress Control Number: 2010907520, ISBN: 978-1-4500-5168-2, pp.224- 231, Xilibres, New York,2011.[https://books.google.com.bd/books?id=PbaPAAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PT367&lpg=RA1-PT367&dq]
4. “Ode on a Grecian Urn: A Journey towards Beauty Love and True life”, Gono University Journal of Basic & Social Sciences, Volume 01, No. 1, 2013-2014, ISSN: 2309-0642.
5. Beyond Sexual Anxiety: Experience and Mystery of the Marabar Caves in "A passage to India", IDEAS A Journal of Literature Arts and Culture, Volume 1, September 2015, ISSN: 2413-1814. [Also accepted by theInternational Conference on BESSH 2016, Istanbul Turkey, paper ID ISS-146-105 for presenting the paper.]
6. “E.M. Forster’s Caves: An Enigma”, Gono University Journal of Basic & Social Sciences, Volume 01, No. 2, 2015- 2016.
7. “Sense or Nonsense: Tramps in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot Versus the Fool in Shakespeare’s King Lear”, Journal of GonoBiswabidyaly, Volume 02, No. 1, June 2017, ISSN: 2309-0642. .
8. “Just Trivial or Weighty: A Study on Beckett’s Tramps from Shakespearean Fool to Ahmad’s vagabonds in Waiting for Godot, King Lear and the Thing”, IDEAS A Journal of Literature Arts and Culture, Volume 02, December 2017, ISSN: 2413-1814.
9. “Social Satire, Representational Metaphor and Hope in Sayeed Ahmad’s Survival: An Analytical Study”, Journal of City University, Volume 3, December 2019.
10.“ A Voyage to Epistolary Pad”, IDEAS A Journal of Literature Arts and Culture, Volume 3, 2017-2018, ISSN: 2413-1814.
11. Prophetic and Catastrophic Voices in “The Second Coming” and “The Waste Land”, Journal of ELT and Education, Volume 2, Issue 3 & 4, July-December 2019, ISSN: 2618-1290.
12. “Certain Uncertainty in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Ahmad’s The Thing”, IDEAS A Journal of Literature Arts and Culture, Volume 4, 2018-2019, ISSN: 2413-1814.
13. “Rabindranath Tagore and English Romantic Poets : On Imagination” ManababidyaGabesanapatra (in Bangla), The Research Journal of Humanities, JatiyaKabiKaziNazrul Islam University, Mymensing.
14. “Absurd Writing’s Style: A Comparative Study on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Sayeed Ahmad’s The Thing”, Harvest (Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature), Volume 33, 2017-2018.
15. “Human Brain : Perspectives from Second Language (L2) Learning” , IDEAS A Journal of Literature Arts and Culture, Volume 05, January 2020, ISSN: 2413-1814.
16. “Reading Fiction and Poetry: A Path to Establish Peace in Society” Journal of ELT and Education, Volume 3, Issue 1 & 2, Page: 09-14, ISSN: 2618-1290. (First co-author).
17. “The Reality of Absurdity as Reflected in Sayeed Ahmad’s Milepost”, DIU Journal of Humanities and Social Science (JHSS),2020, ISSN (2305-0136).
18. “Longing for Going on: A Prime Projection in Beckett’s and Ahmad’s Plays”, Submitted for 8th ICSDAP Biennial Conference, Thamasat University, Thailand, 14-16 October 2020.
19. “Perceiving Reality through Absurdity: A Prime Projection in Waiting for Godot and The Thing”Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities, Volume 8, no. 1, 2020 , Page: 1-6, P-ISSN: 2321-788X, E-ISSN: 2582-0397. (“Co- first author”).
20. “Hope in Hopelessness: Appreciating “Waiting” as an Essential Device in Selected Plays of Beckett and Ahmad”, Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities, Volume 8, no. 2, 2020 , Page: 27-32, P-ISSN: 2321-788X, E-ISSN: 2582-0397. (“First co- author”)
21. “Alienation in the Historical Perspective: The Origin and the Cause”, IDEAS A Journal of Literature Arts and Culture, Volume 06, January 2021, ISSN: 2413-1814.
22. “Ambivalence, Hope and Rebellion: A Post- Colonial Posture to Sayeed Ahmad's Play Survival” Harvest (Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature), Volume 35, 2019-2020.(“Co-first author”)
23. “Reading Between the Lines: A Timeless Expression of Life in Keats’ “To Autumn”” , Journal of Bangabandhu Institute of Comparative Literature & Culture (BICLC), Jahangirnagar University.
24. “Absurdism as a Continuous Trend From Greek Theatre to the Theatre of the Absurd”, IDEAS A Journal of Literature Arts and Culture, Volume 07, December 2021, ISSN: 2413-1814.
Published Books :
1. Shakespeare theke Robert Frost: KaljoyiKichuEngregiKobita[From Shakespeare to Robert Frost: Some timeless English Poems] Translation of 41 selected poems. GonoProkashoni, Dhaka, ISBN no. 984-70044-0002-0 (May 2007).
2. Short Stories of SelimMorshed , Translation of two long Short Stories [The House of tears and Shokhichan, Page no. 33- 80] from the Bengali originals; Ulukhar ( Asian Writers Series) , Bangladesh, ISBN no. 984-300-002973-9 (Published on March 2009)
3. RongdhonuKanna(a collection of poems); F.B.Prokashoni, Dhaka, January 2010.
4. A Window to the Learners of English, Creative Publication, Dhaka, Sole distributor Friends’ Book Corner, Dhaka 1205, ISBN no. 978-984-90124-2-9 (Published in June 2012).
5. A Doll’s House,Henrik Ibsen, Translation (Bengali) GonoProkashoni, Dhaka-1314, ISBN no. 978-984-90124-6-7 (Published on January 2014).
6. Waiting for Pied Piper of Hamelin(Rimes on Ancient Love and Dismay) Adorn Books, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ISBN: 978 984 20 0466-7, February 2015.
7. Shakespeare theke Keats- Robert Frost theke Eliot,Translation, Adorn Books, Dhaka, Bangladesh. ISBN: 978984200465-0, February 2016.
8. Arms and the Man,George Bernard Shaw, Translation (Bengali),GonoProkashoni, ISBN no. 978-984-90125-4-2,Dhaka.2016.
9. English Applied Writing, Volume II,GonoProkashoni, Dhaka-1314, ISBN no. 978-984-90125-7-3 , Dhaka 2016.
10. Developing Writing Skill For Bangladeshi Students (for Undergraduate and Graduate Students), Adorn Books, Dhaka, Bangladesh.2017.
11. Journey with a Snake Pleasure (ShapLuduKhela), Translation (English) of a Novelette by SelimMorshed. Protishilpo, Dhaka.
12. Management Guide to Delegating, Translation (Bengali) GonoProkashoni, Dhaka.
13. Basic English Language Skills(for Bangladeshi Graduate Students), Creative Lounge Publication, ISBN: 978-984-90124-2-9 , Dhaka, 2019.
14. The Reality of Absurdity Selected Research Articles LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (2020-11-13 ) ISBN-13: 978-620-3-02921-5, ISBN-10: 6203029211, EAN: 9786203029215, Germany; Website: https://www.lap-publishing.com/
15. Absurdity versus Reality: A Comparative Study ALIENATION, ABSURDITY, WAITING AND HOPE IN SELECT PLAYS OF BECKETT & SAYEED AHMAD , LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (2022-06-28) ISBN-13:978-620-4-95450-9, ISBN-10: 6204954504, EAN: : 9786204954509, Website: https://www.lap-publishing.com/
Accepted manuscript (Books):
1. Jake &Tuffy (A Children’s Story), Translation (Bengali) GonoProkashoni, Dhaka.
2. People in History, Translation (Bengali) GonoProkashoni, Dhaka.
Manuscript (Books on Progress):
● Translation Studies: A Study Guide for Bangladeshi Students
● A Handbook to Comparative Literature
Editorial Activity/Journal Reviewer :
1. PhD Thesis Evaluation Panel Member & External Examiner , India
2. Associate Editor, IDEAS, A Journal of Literature Arts and Culture , Bangladesh.
3. Executive Editor, City University Journal, Bangladesh
4. Associate Editor, BODHI, International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science, India.
5. Reviewer, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Sciences (IJRISS), India.