Personal Info
Afsana Rahman
Lecturer
Department of English
Contact Info
Email: afsana.rahman@isu.ac.bd
Telephone: +880 9613737373, Ext. 159
Afsana Rahman, lecturer, in the Department of English at ISU is a motivated, flexible, hardworking, and proactive person with strengths in verbal and written communication. She is dedicated to providing fast, high-quality work and is also a freelance writer, translator and transcriptionist with strong editing skills.
Before joining ISU, Afsana Rahman worked for a while as a staff writer as well as reviewer of literary books at Dhaka Tribune’s literary magazine Arts & Letters. Her duties at Arts & Letters, Dhaka Tribune included editing, reviewing books, writing articles, and maintaining the online platform of the magazine as well as the social aspects of it.
Ms. Rahman is trilingual. She is proficient in Both English, German and her mother tongue Bangla. Being a speaker of several languages, therefore, equips Ms. Rahman with the ability to interact with diverse segment of people and to be compassionate towards different cultures.
Afsana Rahman is skilled in employing a differentiated approach to provide a student-centred learning environment that encourages resourcefulness and critical thinking while promoting tolerance, respect and emotional security for a diverse student group. Besides, Ms. Rahman looks forward to optimal utilisation of a range of diagnostic assessments to closely monitor progress towards the achievement of curriculum goals and student performance objectives at ISU.
Before joining ISU, Afsana Rahman worked for a while as a staff writer as well as reviewer of literary books at Dhaka Tribune’s literary magazine Arts & Letters. Her duties at Arts & Letters, Dhaka Tribune included editing, reviewing books, writing articles, and maintaining the online platform of the magazine as well as the social aspects of it.
Ms. Rahman is trilingual. She is proficient in Both English, German and her mother tongue Bangla. Being a speaker of several languages, therefore, equips Ms. Rahman with the ability to interact with diverse segment of people and to be compassionate towards different cultures.
Afsana Rahman is skilled in employing a differentiated approach to provide a student-centred learning environment that encourages resourcefulness and critical thinking while promoting tolerance, respect and emotional security for a diverse student group. Besides, Ms. Rahman looks forward to optimal utilisation of a range of diagnostic assessments to closely monitor progress towards the achievement of curriculum goals and student performance objectives at ISU.
Book Review
- “A view of the world through the eyes of a Chandal boy” (https://archive.dhakatribune.com/magazine/arts-letters/2021/05/26/a-view-of-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-chandal-boy)
- “Murakami’s compelling mix of magic, eccentricity and surreality” (https://archive.dhakatribune.com/magazine/arts-letters/2021/07/28/murakami-s-compelling-mix-of-magic-eccentricity-and-surreality)
- “A commendable history of Assamese Muslims” (https://archive.dhakatribune.com/magazine/arts-letters/2021/02/18/a-commendable-history-of-assamese-muslims)
Poetry
- “Corpse of a Woman” (http://journals.ulab.edu.bd/muse/2018/12/20/the-corpse-of-a-woman/)
- Receiver of ULAB’s Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award for outstanding academic performance in the term Fall 2020
- Receiver of ULAB’s academic honour of distinction, Magna Cum Laude for special merit during the bachelor’s degree.
- MA in English Literature and Cultural Studies
University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh (ULAB) - BA in English and Humanities
University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh (ULAB)
WORKSHOP & SYMPOSIUM
- Creative Writing Certificate Course provided by the Department of English and Humanities, ULAB from May 2022 to June 2022.
- Phonetics Transcription Workshop on “Endangered Language Project: Language Documentation Project Workshop,” organised by the Language Club, ULAB.
CONFERENCE
- 3rd CSD Annual International Conference 2018, organised by the Center for Sustainable Development, ULAB (Translator and transcriptionist of the Plenary Sessions)
- 3rd Inter-University Conference and Cultural Competition focussing on Jane Austen organised by Department of English and Humanities, ULAB (Participated as one of the group members and helped winning the runner-up prize).
- Staff Writer, Arts & Letters, Dhaka Tribune.
- Gender Studies
- British literature
- History of English Literature
- Old English Literature in Translation
- Post-colonial Literature
- Literary Theory
- Cultural Studies
- Psycholinguistics
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Academic English
- English for professional purposes
- Translation Studies
- Gender Studies
- British literature
- History of English Literature
- Old English Literature in Translation
- Post-colonial Literature
- Literary Theory
- Cultural Studies
- Psycholinguistics
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Academic English
- English for professional purposes
- Translation Studies
