Dr. Sohana Manzoor started her teaching career at BRAC University in 2002. She went for her PhD in 2009 and after completing her degree in 2015 she taught for about a year at Suffolk University in Boston. She has been teaching at ULAB since Fall 2016. She also serves as the Literary Editor at The Daily Star.
Master of Arts in English
Nineteenth-century British Literature, modernism, women writers, classical literature, creative writing.
Current Projects:
Working on a chapter titled “Literature of Bangladesh: Belle-Lettres, Travel Writing and Autobiography, 1947-1971.
Our Many Longings: Contemporary Short Fiction from Bangladesh (edited). Dhauli Books, India, 2021.
“Translating Medea’s Infanticide: A Reading of Euripides’ Medea.” Crossings, Fall 2019.
“Rizia Rahman’s Rokter Okshor: Politics of Prostitution and the Consciousness of Civic Society in Bangladesh” (Forthcoming)
(Dec 2005). The theme of duality and epiphanic moments in the works of Emily Brontë. Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, Language, Literature & Community, International Conference, Special Volume.
(2006). William Golding and the myth of fall. Spectrum: Journal of the Department of English, University of Dhaka.
“Male Actors as Women and the Problem of Cross-dressing in Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Twelfth Night.” Special Volume on Shakespeare, published in January 2018, by Independent University Bangladesh.
“Conor McPherson’s Seafarer: A Mythic Journey of Wretched Souls.” Crossings, Fall, 2017.
“When the Woman Speaks: A Reading of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Repining’ and ‘Autumn.’” Spectrum: Journal of the Department of English, University of Dhaka, Vol. 12, 2016.
Chapters:
The Trickster. New York: 2010). The Prometheus myth in the novels of William Golding. Bloom’s Literary Themes Infobase.
Date: 01/01/2010
“Dreaming of Another Day.” Short story published in Six Seasons Review Vol. 3, No. 1, 2016.
“Ancestral Home.” Translated short story by Bibhutibhushan Bandopaddhye published in Arts and Letters, Dhaka Tribune, October 03, 2017.
“Trouble.” Translated short story by Bibhutibhushan Bandopaddhye published in Arts and Letters, Dhaka Tribune, July 6, 2017.
“Meghmallar.” Translated short story by Bibhutibhushan Bandopaddhye published in The Daily Star Literature page, on the 17th and 24th December, 2016, and on the 7th January, 2017.
“Natir Puja: A Tale of Devosion and Sacrifice as Opposed to Jealousy and Tyranny.” Article published in The Daily Star, August 2, 2019.
“Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay and the Famine of the Fifties.” Article published in The Daily Star Focus, September 10, 2018.
“Little Things.” Short story published in Asiatic: Special Issue on Bangladeshi Writing, 12. 1, 2018.
“The Doll.” Short story published in Six Season’s Review, 4.2, 2018.
“A Portrait of Aunt Shuhashini.” Translated short story by Bibhutibhushan Bandopaddhye published in Arts and Letters, Dhaka Tribune, March 2018.
“Exile in Ashville.” Short story published in Six Season’s Review, Vol. 4, No 1,2017.
“Anuara.” Short story published in A Tapestry of Colours: Stories from Asia, an Anthology of Southeast Asian short stories, 2021. Published by Cavendish International, Singapore.
“When Women Want to Study Abroad,” Op-ed published in The Daily Star, March 10, 2021.
“In Search of Her Roots.” Short story published for the web version of Best Asian Short Stories in 2020. Published in 2021.
“The Darkest Cloud.” Short story published in Kitaab, March, 2020.
“Shards of Moonlight.” Short story published in Kitaab, November, 2019
“Little Things.” Asiatic: Special Issue on Bangladeshi Writing, 12. 1, 2018.
Newspaper & Magazines [More Info, If Any]
“The Wedding.” Short story published in the New Age Eid literary supplement, July 2016.
“Pori.” Short story published in Six Seasons Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2015.
“Persona.” Short story published in Six Seasons Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2014.
“Parul and the Potato Prince.” Short story published in Bengal Lights, Autumn 2012.
(Mar 2009). Sylvia Plath’s Three Women and the position of women in today’s world. Conference Proceedings, Defining the Ethos of the New Millenium: Literature from the US and the Indian Subcontinent, Ethiraj College, India.
Date: 03/01/2009