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Md. Habibullah, an Associate Professor, joined the Department of English at Presidency University on January 1, 2018. At PU, he has taught a wide range of courses, including Romantic Literature, Victorian Literature, Modern Literature, Postcolonial Literature, and Shakespearean
Drama. In addition, he serves as an Adjunct Faculty in English at the Department of Arabic, University of Dhaka.

His research interests center on the interplay between religion and English literature, postcolonial studies, and global cultural politics. His scholarly articles have been published in several Scopus- indexed journals, such as Asiatic (IIUM), Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (Routledge),
Victoriographies (Edinburgh University Press), and CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue University Press).

Md. Habibullah completed his Honour’s in English and Masters in English Literature from the Department of English at University of Dhaka. For his MPhil at Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), he conducted a comparative study of V.S. Naipaul’s Islamic travelogues and Daniel Pipes’ Islamic historiography. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in the Department of English at the University of Dhaka, where his research explores postcolonially narrativization of Islam in contemporary American fiction, focusing on the works of John Updike, Don DeLillo, Amy Waldman, and Shaila Abdullah.

Email: habibullah@pu.edu.bd | habib.du@yahoo.com

PhD

• 2023-2024 – On-going from Department of English, University of Dhaka

MPhil

• 2016-2017- completed in 2022 from Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), scored CGPA (3.85, out of 4) with 2nd place in course works

Postgraduate Degree

• 2002- MA in English (Literature) from Department of English, University of Dhaka, 2nd Class scored 12th highest marks and placed 18th; total marks: 242 out of 500

Undergraduate Degree

• 2001- BA (Honours) in English from Department of English, University of Dhaka, 2nd Class, total marks: 876 out of 1800

• Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Presidency University, Joined as an Assistant Professor and chairman on 01 January 2018; promoted to Associate Professor on 01 January 2019; chairmanship ended on 1 November 2023 and working till date

• Adjunct Faculty in English, Department of Arabic, University of Dhaka, From 19 October 2014 till date

• Assistant Professor and Head, Dept. of English, World University of Bangladesh, Joined as a Lecturer on 06 June 2007; promoted to Senior Lecturer on 01 June 2011 and to Assistant Professor and the Head on 01 June 2014 and worked till 31 December 2017

• Adjunct Faculty in English, Department of Urdu, University of Dhaka, From 1 July 2018 to 31 December 2018

• Adjunct Faculty in English, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Dhaka, From 27 March 2011 to 27 March 2014

• Examiner for English Courses, Department of World Religion and Culture, University of Dhaka, From January 2021 till date

• Journal Publications

• Habibullah, Md. “Topological Tropology of V.S. Naipaul’s Islamic Travelogues and Daniel Pipes’ Islamic History: Ahistorical Historicism.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol.25, no.2, 2023.
  https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3965

• Habibullah, Md. “Kipling’s Manipulation of Religions in Kim: A Document of His Imperialist Position.” Victoriographies, vol.13, no.2, 2023, pp. 192-209.
  https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/vic.2023.0492?role=tab

• Habibullah, Md. “Feministic Islamophobia: Representation of Muslim Women in V.S. Naipaul’s Travelogues and Daniel Pipes’ history.” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, vol.4, no. 4, 2021, pp. 669-684.
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602004.2022.2029013

• Habibullah, Md. “An Affiliative Reading of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim: A Cartography of Religions for Imperialism.” Dialogics: A Research Journal of English Studies, vol. 1, 2021, pp.69-80
  https://www.academia.edu/110129958/An_Affiliative_Reading_of_Rudyard_ Kiplings_Kim_A_Cartography_of_Religions_for_Imperialism

• Jahan, Israt, and Md. Habibullah “J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: An Allegory of Resistance against Imperialism and Apartheid.” UITS: Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, vol.7, no. 1, 2020.
  https://research.uits.edu.bd/wp- content/uploads/2022/09/03-Article-of-Ishrat-Jahan-54-64-11.pdf

• Habibullah, Md. “V. S. Naipaul’s Travel Anecdotes and Daniel Pipes’ Historiography: A New Historicist Reading.” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 14, no. 2, Dec. 2020, pp. 74-88.
  https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/article/view/1934

• Habibullah, Md. “The Constructs of Islamicate in V.S. Naipaul’s Travelogues: Clash of Civilizations or of Ignorance?” Stamford: Journal of English, vol.10,2020, pp. 41- 54.

• Habibullah, Md. Review of After Said: Postcolonial literary studies in the twenty-first century ed. by Bashir Abu-Manneh. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 20, no.3, 2019, pp.150-153.
  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/743265

• Habibullah, Md. “The Lion and the Jewel: An Allegory of Imperial Resistance.” Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, vol.9, 2018, pp.33-44.
  https://sah.ulab.edu.bd/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/09/Crossings_Vol- 9_2018_published.pdf

• Habibullah, Md, and Nurun Nahar. “Albert Camus’ The Stranger and Islam: A
  Postcolonial Study.” International Journal of Entrepreneurship &Development
  Studies (IJEDS), vol. 5, no.1, 2017, pp.13-17.
  http://ijeds.org/index.php?journal=ijeds&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=107

• Al-Quaderi, Golam Gaus, and Md. Habibullah. “Revisiting Colonial ‘Others’: Elements of Colonial Resistance in Kipling’s Kim.” Journal of Sociology, vol.8, no.2, 2016, pp.74-86.
  https://www.academia.edu/38154731/Revisiting_Colonial_Others_Elements_of_Colo nial_Resistance_in_Kiplings_Kim

• Geeti, Jebun Ara, and Md. Habibullah. “Kazi Nazrul Islam and W.B. Yeats: The Voices of Spiritual Freedom, Nationalism and Internationalism.” International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Development Studies (IJEDS), vol.4, no.1, 2016, pp.93-107.
  http://ijeds.org/index.php?journal=ijeds&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=76

• Al-Quaderi, Golam Gaus, and Md. Habibullah. “Edward Said and Islam: An
  Overview.” Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, vol. 4, no. 4, 2013, pp.37-56.
  https://www.academia.edu/8365474/Islam_and_Edward_Said_An_Overview

• Habibullah, Md, and Salma Begum. “Edward Said: An Evaluation of His Contribution to Postcolonial Studies.” Journal of Sociology, vol. 5, no. 1, 2013, pp.5-20.
  https://www.academia.edu/38154706/Edward_Said_an_Evaluation_of_His_Contribut ion_to_Postcolonial_Studies

• Al-Quaderi, Golam Gaus, and Md. Habibullah. “Travels in Absurdity: Islam and V. S. Naipaul.” Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2012, pp.21- 37.
  https://www.academia.edu/1773271/Travels_in_absurdity_Islam_and_VS_Naipaul

• Research Accepted

• Habibullah, Md. “Othering Muslims in V. S. Naipaul’s Travelogues and Daniel Pipes’ History: Clash of Civilizations or Ignorance?” is accepted by a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (Routledge).

• Ahsan, Farhana, and Md. Habibullah. “EFL text (Class five) of Bangladeshi Government Primary Education and Critical Consciousness through Culture: A Nexus Analysis.” is accepted by The Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics,

• Research Under Review

• Habibullah, Md. “V.S. Naipaul’s Among the Believers and Daniel Pipes’ In the Path of God: From Filiation to Affiliation.” is under review of Society (Springer Nature)

• Habibullah, Md. “Islamophobic Cultural Translation: Representational Muslim Cultures in Naipaul’s Travelogues and Pipes’ History.” is under Religion and Culture (Routledge)

• Habibullah, Md. “Cultural Materialist Reading of John Updike’s Terrorist: Reflection of Post-9/11 US Strategic Plan.” is under review of Prose Studies (Routledge).

• Habibullah, Md. “John Updike’s Fictionalized Idea of a Muslim Fundamentalist: (Re)incarnation of Naipaulian and Pipesian Non-Fictional Fundamentalism” is under Sub Stance.

• Habibullah, Md. “ From Pre-9/11 Non-Fictional to Post-9/11 Fictional Representation of Islam: A Paradigm Shift ” is under Wasafiri (Routledge)

Md. Habibullah’s research interests center on the interplay between religion and English literature, postcolonial studies, and global cultural politics.