Fakrul Alam

Fakrul Alam is a reputed academic, writer, and translator. He writes

on literary matters and postcolonial issues and translated works of

leading Bangla poets including Rabindranath Tagore into English. He

is the recipient of the Bangla Academy Literary Award (2012) in

translation literature and SAARC Literary Award (2012).

He completed BA and MA in English at the University of Dhaka, earned a second master's

degree from Simon Fraser University, and achieved his Ph.D. degree from the University of

British Columbia, Vancouver. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the works of Daniel Defoe.

Alam was a faculty member at the Department of English of the University of Dhaka. He

taught at several universities around the globe, including Clemson University, the USA as a

Fulbright Scholar, and Jadavpur University, India as a Visiting Associate Professor.

Besides academic responsibilities, he was also the Director of the Advanced Studies in the

Humanities of the University of Dhaka from 1993 to 1996, and Adviser of the Dhaka

University Central Library from 2002 to 2003. He was a member of the Education Policy

Implementation Committee constituted by the Government of Bangladesh. He is also an

Adviser at the Department of English of East-West University.