Shawkat Hussain (University of Dhaka)

Shawkat HUSSAIN is a former professor and chairman of the Department of English at the University of Dhaka where he taught from 1973 to 2013. Later he joined the University of Asia Pacific as the Head of English. After graduating from the University of Dhaka with a First Class both in his BA Honours and MA, he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship. He completed his MA and PhD from Dalhousie University, Canada in 1976 and 1980. He taught in the US (Montgomery College, MD), was a Senior Fulbright scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington, and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. Shawkat Hussain frequently translates from Bengali to English (poetry and fiction) and is an occasional translator of Rabindranath Tagore.