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) and 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 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

• “Kaiser Haq’s ‘Ode on the Lungi’: A Resistance to the Politics of Socio-Semiotic Violence” (Erothanatos, 2021)
• “Revisiting Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” through the Lens of Post-Colonial Ecocriticism” (Litinfinite, 2021)
• “An Ecocritical Reading of Albert Camus’ The Outsider” (Erothanatos, 2022)
• “The Backfiring of Colonial Education in Shakespeare’s The Tempest” (Critical Insights, 2023) (Accepted)

Research Interests

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

Research Projects

• “CREDIBLE Approach to Teaching & Research” (2021-2022)

Teaching Responsibilities

Literary Theory (Grad), Advanced Approaches to Shakespeare (Grad), Ecocriticism & Literature, Post-Modernism & Literature, Twentieth Century 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
• ResearchGate
• Academia
• ORCHID ID: 0000-0002-8271-4263

Professional Experience

Academic

• Assistant Professor, Department of English, Notre Dame University (Jan 2017 – Present)
• Lecturer, Department of English, Notre Dame College (April 2016 – June 2016)

Non-Academic

• Director, Free Linguistics Conference (September 2021 – Present)
• 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 – BAC
• Compliance of BNQF in Higher Education – BAC
• Effective Teaching Learning and Assessment – BAC
• Other training on OBE at NDUB

Awards and Honors

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

Professional Memberships

• FLC
• TESOL Society
• Delhi Linguistics Circle

Collaborations

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