Department of English & Humanities
BRAC University, 66 Mohakhali C/A Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
T el: 88 2 988 1265 ext. 4014 [o]; 88 2 811 1431 [h]; Fax: 88 2 881 0383
E-mail: fazim@bracuniversity.ac.bd
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A professor in the Department of English at the BRAC University in Dhaka, Firdous is a member of Narippokho, a women’s activist group and is actively involved in women’s liberation issues. Firdous was a Commonwealth Scholar and Fellow based at the University of Sussex and at SOAS, University of London and authored The Colonial Rise of the Novel, 1993 and edited a number of books including Infinite Variety: Women in Society and Literature, 1996 and ‘Different Perspectives: Women Writing in Bangladesh’, a collection of “startling original thematic and linguistic” Bengali short stories and poems.
She is a member of the IACS and is also a contributing editor to the Interventions and Feminist Review, both published in London. Her present research is on ‘Toru Dutt’, and English and women’s writings in nineteenth-century Bengal. She is a regular contributor to literary columns in Bangladesh and is interested in popularizing post-colonial concerns.