Sami Hossain Chisty

Sami Hossain Chisty is an academic and creative writer with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) and M.A. in English from the University of Dhaka. He joined Notre Dame University Bangladesh as a lecturer in 2017 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2023. He is also the Director of the Free Linguistics Conference (FLC), a linguistic forum established at the University of Sydney. He has completed training on Subaltern Linguistics and Education in the Time of COVID-19 from FLC. He was the coordinator of a CREDIBLE project that published a multilingual e-book (The Ribbit-Ribbit Pond) addressing cross-cultural communication, and immigrant and refugee issues. He also completed a course on “Shakespeare’s Life and Work” from Harvard University. Sami has published articles in international peer-reviewed journals and is a registered researcher with the Press Information Department (PID) of Bangladesh. He is a poet and writer with an award-winning poem and a critically acclaimed short story. He has conducted workshops and writes articles for national dailies.

Education

Publications

• Chisty, Sami Hossain. “Kaiser Haq’s ‘Ode on the Lungi’: A Resistance to the Politics of Socio-Semiotic Violence.” Erothanatos, vol. 1, no. 2, 2021, pp.19-31.
• Chisty, Sami Hossain. “Revisiting Orwell’s ‘Shooting an Elephant’ through the Lens of Post-Colonial Ecocriticism.” Litinfinite, vol. 3, no. 2, 2021, pp. 42–50. https://doi.org/10.47365/litinfinite.3.2.2021.42-50.
• Chisty, Sami Hossain, and Sanjida Akter. “An Ecocritical Reading of Albert Camus’ The Outsider.” Erothanatos, vol. 6, no. 2, 2022, pp.17-32.
• Chisty, Sami Hossain. “The Backfiring of Colonial Education in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.” Critical Insights, vol. 2, no. 1, 2023, pp. 77–85.
• Chisty, Sami Hossain and Azharul Islam. “Rethinking Orwell’s Animal Farm through the Lens of Post-Colonial Ecocriticism.” Critical Insights, vol. 3, no. 1, 2024, pp.72-87.

Research Interests

• Post-Colonialism
• Socio-semiotics
• Ecocriticism
• Decolonizing Education

Research Projects

• “CREDIBLE Approach to Teaching & Research” (2021-2022), FLC, University of Sydney

Teaching Responsibilities

Advanced Literary Theory (Grad), Cross-Cultural Approaches to Shakespeare (Grad), Creative Writing (Grad) Ecocriticism & Literature, Postmodernism & Literature, Continental Literature, Twentieth Century English Poetry, Critical Theory & Literary Criticism, Language & Media, Seventeenth Century Prose & Drama, Bangladesh Studies, Introduction to Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Introduction to Drama, Introduction to Prose, Rhetoric & Prosody, Classics in Translation, Philosophy & Aesthetics, History of England, Twentieth Century Poetry & Drama, Critical Theory II

Profile Links

• Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=6Q_r5X4AAAAJ
• ResearchGate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sami-Chisty
• Academia : https://ndub.academia.edu/samichisty
• ORCHID ID: 0000-0002-8271-4263

Academic

• Assistant Professor, Department of English, Notre Dame University (Jan 2017 – Present)
• Assistant Editor, Critical Insights, a scholarly journal of the Department of English, NDUB (Sept.2022- Present)
• Lecturer, Department of English, Notre Dame College (April 2016 – June 2016)
• Director, Free Linguistics Conference, University of Sydney (September 2021 – Present)

Non-Academic

• Editor, The Weekly Arthobazar (March 2023 – Present)

Training

• Subaltern Linguistics, CREDIBLE APPROACH to Teaching and Research – University of Sydney (2020)
• IQAC – NDUB (2019)
• OBE Curriculum – Bangladesh Accreditation Council
• Compliance of BNQF in Higher Education – Bangladesh Accreditation Council
• Effective Teaching Learning and Assessment – Bangladesh Accreditation Council
• Other training on OBE at NDUB

Awards and Honors

• First Prize in the Multilingual Poetry Competition (2020)
• Faculty of Arts Scholarship (Undergrad and Grad), University of Dhaka

Professional Memberships

• Free Linguistic Conference (FLC)
• TESOL Society of Bangladesh
• Delhi Linguistics Circle

Collaborations

Dr. Ahmar Mahboob, Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Sydney