Professor Dr. M. M. Shariful Karim

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Professor Dr. M. M. Shariful Karim

Professor

Comilla University
Cumilla-3506, Bangladesh

karimshariful@gmail.com
+8801711386420

Prof Dr MM Shariful Karim is professor (2nd Grade) of English in this department. He has been serving in this department since 2007. He is the founding Chairman of this department. He is a man from Cumilla. He did his BA Hons and MA in English Literature from University of Chittagong. Prof Shariful got his PhD degree in English Literary Studies  from International Islamic University, Malaysia. Before joining Comilla university he joined BCS Education Cadre in 1999. He has more than 25 years of teaching experience in Undergrad and postgraduate levels. He has supervised a number of MA thesis and currently supervising 4 MPhil students of various other universities. He has also taught at level 3 in a renowned Malaysian University. He has got around 10 years of administrative experience  that includes Governance, Policy Roles, Formation of Rules and Regulations and academic issues. He has also been Syndicate Member, Dean. Academic Advisor and Curriculum expert of this and other Universities.

 

 

Contact Informations:

Phone: +8801711386420

E-mail: karimshariful@gmail.com

 

 

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) International Islamic University (IIUM), Gombak, Malaysia Representation of Asian Culture in the Novels of Adib Khan: A Postcolonial Study.
M.A (Master of Arts) University of Chittagong English Literature 1996
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) University of Chittagong English Literature 1994

Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Comilla University
Dean
June 2015 - June 2017


Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Comilla University, Cumilla., Bangladesh
Dean
February 2020 - March 2022


Department of English, Comilla University, Bangladesh
Chairman
September 2014 - February 2017


Faculty of Liberal Arts, CCN University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh
Academic Advisor
July 2017 - June 2020


Department of English, Gurudayal Govt. College, Kishoregonj, Bangladesh
Head of The Department
February 2006 - August 2006


Dhirendranath Datta Hall, Comilla University, Bangladesh
Provost
April 2009 - December 2009


Comilla University, Bangladesh
Member of the Syndicate
June 2015 - June 2017


CCN University of Science & Technology, Cumilla, Bangladesh
Member of the Syndicate
January 2021 - December 2022


Department of English, Comilla University,Cumilla, Bangladesh
Professor
December 2019 - Present


PUBLICATIONS:


1. “Experiencing Movie Clips in English as Foreign Language Teaching” April 2010, Vol 7 Issue: 2, Journal of Socio-Economic Research and Development (2nd Author).


2. “The Financial Expert Margayya’s Strive to New Identity: An Echo of His Own”, Research on Humanities and Social Science, Vol. 1, No 3, 2011 (1st Author).


3. A Critical Overview of Miller’s Lowman – A dreamer, more sinned against than sinning. Journal of Arts, Science & Commerce. Vol.-IV, Issue-1(1), January 2013


4. Postmodernism: Issues and Problems. Asian Journal of Social Science and Humanities Vol. 2, No. 2 May 2013 (2nd Author).


5. Generational Difference in South Asian Diaspora. Vol. 5, No 1 (2013), Journal of Center for Development and Research.


6. Representing Religion Women Subjugation and Resistance in The Scarlet Letter, Vol (1), June 2016, The Comilla University Journal of Arts


7. From Feminine to Female: Trajectory of and Indian Woman's Married Life. Vol (2), June 2017, The Comilla University Journal of Arts


8. Images of Poverty, Deprivation and Identity Crisis of the City Outcastes in Adib Khan’s The Storyteller. Vol (3), June 2018, The Comilla University Journal of Arts


9. Representation of Third world Women in Manju Kapoor’s Difficult Daughters. Vol (1). No (1). CCN University Review. December 2018


10. Interrogating Foucauldian Concept of Power/Knowledge in Shakespeare’s The Tempest European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, Vol.7, No.2, March 2019


11. Destabilizing Men’s Perceptions: Female Voice in Selected Asian Fictions, Journal of Social and Political Sciences, Vol.2, No.1, 2019


12. Interrogating Muslim Identity: Distinctiveness and Voluntary Adjustments in Adib Khan’s Solitude of Illusions. Asiatic (Scopus Indexed) Vol. 13 No 1. 2019


13. Corona virus Pandemic: Silver Linings in Real Life and in Selected Films Vol. 6 Number 6 June 2021, The Comilla University Journal of Arts. Page: 183-94


14. Camera Shots and Cinematic Representation of the East-West Dichotomy in David Lean’s A Passage to India Vol. 8 Number 8 June 2023 Journal of Arts & Humanities Page. 181-196


15. Relegation of the South Asian Scavenger Community to Persistent Subalternity: A Never-ending Saga of the Wretched in Untouchable and Ramgolam. Processed for December 2024 issue ASIATIC, IIUM


16. Biodiversity and Climate Change: Challenges and Adaptation of Indigenous People in Bangladeshi Coastline Reflected in Jaladas’ Son of Sea. Submitted with required Editing in an International Journal. (To be Published in September 2024)  

 

On Going Research Projects:


1. Features of Bangladeshi English and its Implications for English Language Education


2. A Critical Appraisal of Master of Arts (Weekend) Program of Comilla University

 

Research Supervision and Contributions:

 

1. Dynamics of Fragmented Identity in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss. Supervisee: Kazi Shazia Ishrat. Session: 2017-18


2. Relocating Women’s Identity in an Indian Extended Family: A Study of Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time. Supervisee: Ummay Salma. Session: 2017-18


3.Substantiations of the Subalterns in Power Politics Containment: Manipulation, Victimization, and Subalternization of the Dalits in Harishankar Jaladas’s Sons of the Sea and Ramgolam. Supervisee: Tahin Nur. Session: 2017-18


4. Atrocity and Nationalism in Partition (1947) Narratives A Study of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man. Supervisee: Abdullah-Al-Musayeb. Session: 2015-16


5. Negotiating Bengali Diaspora Identity in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. Supervisee: Md. Nasir Uddin. Session: 2015-16


6. Representation of Third World Women: A Study of Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters and A Married Woman. Supervisee: Rifat Binte Joynal. Session: 2013-14


7. Representation of Working Women in the Selected Fictions of Bangladeshi Women Writers: Selina Hossain and Nasreen Jahan. Supervised Student: Supervisee: Renaissance Ahmed Sayma. Session: 2012-13


8. Quest for Identity by the Second Generation Forced Diaspora in Transnational Narrative: A Study of Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees and The Bastard of Istanbul. Supervisee: Tasfique Abdullah Chowdhury 2020-21


9. Compassionate siblings’ relationship and survival strategy in civil war - stricken Afghanistan: A study of Khaled Hosseini's novel. Supervisee: Rima Jahan. 2020-21


10. Female Representation of Pre-Partitioned India in Kazi Nazrul Islam's Novels


11. Globalization and Metropolis: Exploring ‘New India’ in Aravind Adiga’s Novel The White Tiger. Supervisee: Ashraful Islam 2019-20


12. Going beyond Boundaries: Marriage, Love and Family. Supervisee: Sayma Binte Hakim
Session: 2019-2020


13. Discourse on Terrorism and the Disintegrated Humanity in Mohsin Hamid's Novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Supervisee: Md.Kamal Hossain 2019-20


14. Identity crisis of Bangladeshi women in Tahmima Anam's Selected fiction: Two Decades of Deprivation. Supervisee: Md. Majharul Islam Session: 2018-19


15.The Instability of Meaning: A Discursive Study of Midnight Children By Salman Rushdie. Supervisee: Anas Ahmad Rafi Session: 2018-19

 

M Phil Supervision:

 

1. Diasporic Experiences in Bengali Literature Experiences of the Bengali Migrants: A Study of Selected Texts. Ishrat Jahan. Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Session 2020-21


2.  Postmodern Feminism in Elice Munro’s Selected Short Stories. Salma Pervin. Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Session 2020-21


3. Alienation, Ambivalence and Multiplicity in Transnational Literature (Novels): A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss. Umme Rabeya Mili. University of Professionals (BUP) Session 2021-22


4. Morison’s Return to Myths as a form of Resistance to Panoptic Mechanism: A Foucauldian Study of The Bluest Eye, Sula and Song of Solomon. Rafia Sharmin. National University Bangladesh. Session: 2022-23


UGC Research Project:


Karim, M. M. S., & Musayeb, A. A (2017). “Diasporic Identity in the ‘Apps-Driven Era’: A study of Kite Runner and Brick Lane”. UGC Research Grants: Comilla University.

 



Karim, M. M. S., Hossen, M., & Musayeb, A. A. (2023). Environmental Concern, Tagore and Jibananda Das: The Role of Poets in Combating the Echological Challenges of the 4IR in Bangladesh. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Environmental Concerns & Sustainable Development ICECSD-2023, organized by CCN University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh.

 


  • Postcolonial Literature, South Asian Literature, Literature of the 21st Century, Bangladeshi Fictions in English, 20th Century Drama and Poetry