Hamalna Nizam

Hamalna Nizam
Associate Professor

Profile Login

Email:

[email protected]

Contact:

+8801715144024

Address:

English Discipline, Kobi Jibanananda Das Academic Building, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh

Hi, I am Hamalna Nizam, currently working as an Associate Professor at English Discipline, Khulna University. I obtained my BA (Hons.) and MA in English from Khulna University, Bangladesh. My research interest includes Queer Studies, Film Studies, Feminism, Adaptation Studies and Literary Theory

MA in English (Khulna University, Bangladesh), BA (Hons.) in English (Khulna University, Bangladesh)

Queer Studies, Film Studies, Feminism, Adaptation Studies and Literary Theory

Current Research Project/Collaboration

SL	Title	Research Role	Awarded Date	Completion Date	Funding Agency
No Research Project Available

Associate Professor at Khulna University (from 14-09-2022 to till date)

Assistant Professor at Khulna University (from 14-09-2017 to 14-09-2022)

Lecturer at Khulna University (from 12-9-2015 to 12-02-2018)

Lecturer at North Western University, Khulna (from May 2015 to September 2015)

No Data Available

Supervision

SL	Title	Degree	Role	Start Date	End Date
No Supervision Available

No Data Available

coming soon...

1. Nasrin, N., Shohel, T. A., Shovo, T.-E. A., Farjana, F., Nizam, H., Heme, M. A., Islam, A., Paul, P., & Hossain, M. T. (2023). A qualitative investigation of stressful life events and mental health disorders: The views of patients and caregivers in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE, 18(2), e0281649. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281649

2. Nizam, Hamalna, and T.M. Rafat Rahman. "Perpetuation of Female Performativity through Panopticism in Jagmohan Mundhra's Provoked: A True Story". Harvest: Jahangirnagar University Studies in Language and Literature, Jahangirnagar, 2021-2022, Vol. 105-117.

3. Nizam, Hamalna. "Sartorial Objects, Transgender Bodies and Destabilized Meaning: A Study of Kaushik Ganguly's Nagarkirtan". Spectrum: Journal of the Department of English, Dhaka University, 2017, Vol.16 (Special Centennial Issue), 195-206. DOI: 10.3329/spectrum.v16i100.61078

4. Nizam, Hamalna. "Recollection of Memory for Claiming Identity: Jhumpa Lahiri's "A Real Durwan" and "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine"". Dialogics: A Research Journal of English Studies, Department of English Language and Literature, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Narul Islam University, 2021, V0l.1, 181-192.

5. Nizam, Hamalna. "Normative Member, Non-Normative Family: A Study of Rituparno Ghosh's Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish". Harvest: Jahangirnagar University Studies in Language and Literature, Jahangirnagar, 2021-2022, Vol. 36, 71-80.

6. Nizam, Hamalna. Rituparno Ghosh’s Queer Vision Reflected through Rudra : A Look into Chitrangada- The Crowning Wish. Spectrum: Journal of the
Department of English, Dhaka University, 2017, Vol.13, 29-40.
7. Nizam, Hamalna. "Politics of Gender and Power: Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth in Polanski's Film Adaptation", Crossings: A Journal of English Studies,
Department of English and Humanities, ULAB, Vol.6, 112-122.
8. Nizam, Hamalna. Discovering Meaning through Translation: Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler in a Cinematic Adaptation. Translation Studies Exploring Identities,
writers. ink, 2015, 170-181.

Literary Theory II

English Discipline

Khulna University, Khulna

Couse Plan

Course Code: Eng 3203 (Section B)

Course Title: Literary Theory II

Week	Topic/Part of a text	Core material	Supplementary materials
1	“The Death of the Author”	Ronald Barthes: “The Death of the Author” (1^st half of the text)	John Logie: “1967: The Birth of “The Death of the Author”” Steven Mallioux: “Textual Scholarship and “Author’s Final Intention””
2	“The Death of the Author”	Ronald Barthes: “The Death of the Author” (2^nd half of the text)	John Logie: “1967: The Birth of “The Death of the Author”” Steven Mallioux: “Textual Scholarship and “Author’s Final Intention””
3	General ideas on Orientalism	Edward Said: Orientalism	Bryan Turner: “Edward W. Said: Overcoming Orientalism” Peter Hees: “Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems with Indian Historiography”
4	“Introduction to Orientalism”	Edward Said: “Introduction to Orientalism” (part I&II)	Bryan Turner: “Edward W. Said: Overcoming Orientalism” Peter Hees: “Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems with Indian Historiography”
5	“Introduction to Orientalism”	Edward Said: “Introduction to Orientalism” (part III)	Bryan Turner: “Edward W. Said: Overcoming Orientalism” Peter Hees: “Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems with Indian Historiography”
6	“Introduction to Orientalism”	Edward Said: “Introduction to Orientalism” (part III)	Bryan Turner: “Edward W. Said: Overcoming Orientalism” Peter Hees: “Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems with Indian Historiography”
7	Kate Millett	Toril Moi: Sexual/ Textual Politics (chapter: Kate Millett)	Ardienne Rich: “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision” Helene Cixous : “The Laugh of the Medusa”
8	Kate Millett	Toril Moi: Sexual/ Textual Politics (chapter: Kate Millett)	Ardienne Rich: “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision” Helene Cixous : “The Laugh of the Medusa”
9	Elaine Showalter	Toril Moi: Sexual/ Textual Politics (chapter: Elaine Showalter)	Ardienne Rich: “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision” Helene Cixous : “The Laugh of the Medusa”
10	Elaine Showalter	Toril Moi: Sexual/ Textual Politics (chapter: Elaine Showalter)	Ardienne Rich: “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision” Helene Cixous : “The Laugh of the Medusa”
11	“The Commitment to Theory”	Homi k. Bhabha: The Location of Culture (chapter: “The Commitment to Theory”) (part I)	Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, Helen Tiffins: Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, Helen Tiffins: The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature
12	“The Commitment to Theory”	Homi k. Bhabha: The Location of Culture (chapter: “The Commitment to Theory”) (part I&II)	Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, Helen Tiffins: Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, Helen Tiffins: The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature
13	“The Commitment to Theory”	Homi k. Bhabha: The Location of Culture (chapter: “The Commitment to Theory”) (part II)	Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, Helen Tiffins: Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, Helen Tiffins: The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature

References:

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G. & Tiffin, H. (2002) The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature, Routledge.

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G. & Tiffin, H. (2000) Post-Colonial Studies Key Concepts, Routledge.

Bhabha, H. K. The Location of Culture, Routledge.

Cixous, H., Cohen, K. & Cohen, P. (2017) The Laugh of the Medusa. Signs, 1(4), 875-893.

Heehs, P. (2003). Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems in Indian Historiography. History and Theory, 42(2), 169-195.

Logie, J. (2013) 1967: Birth of “The Death of the Author”. College English, 75(5), 493- 512.

Mallioux, S. (2018). Textual Scholarship and Author’s Final Intention. Interpretative Conventions, Cornell University Press, 93-125.

Moi, T. (1985) Sexual/ Textual Politics, Routledge.

Prakash, G. (1995) Orientalism Now. History and Theory, 34(3), 199-212.

Rich, Adrienne. (1972) When we Dead Awaken: Writing as Re- Vision. College English, 34(1), 18-30.

Said, E. W. (1978) Orientalism, Penguin Books.

Turner, B. (2004) Edward W. Said: Overcoming Orientalism. Theory, Culture & Society, 21(1), 173-177.

Name: Hamalna Nizam

Signature

Running

Continental Literature

English Discipline

Khulna University, Khulna

Couse Plan

Course Code: Eng 4209 (Section B)

Course Title: Continental Literature

Week	Topic/Part of a text	Core material	Supplementary materials
1	Introduction to Franz Kafka and Kafkaesque	Milan Kundera: “Kafka’s World” Clegg, Cunha, Munro & de Sousa: “Kafkaesque Power and Bureaucracy”	Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka: “First Sorrow”
2	Discussion on “A Hunger Artist”	Franz Kafka: “A Hunger Artist”	William c. Rubenstein: “Franz Kafka: A Hunger Artist” Stanley Corngold: “Principles of Kafka Interpretation”
3	Introduction to Albert Camus	Thomas Polzler: “Camus’ Feeling of the Absurd”	Mairowitz & Korkos: Introducing Camus: A Graphic Guide Gina Marie Breen: “Neither Algerian, nor French: Albert Camus’ Pied- Noir Identity”
4	Text Discussion	Albert Camus: The Outsider (section 1,2&3 of part I)	Albert Camus: “An Absurd Reasoning” Albert Camus: “Summer in Algiers”
5	Text Discussion	Albert Camus: The Outsider (section 4&5 of part I)	Albert Camus: “The Myth of Sisyphus” Albert Camus: “Summer in Algiers”
6	Text Discussion	Albert Camus: The Outsider (section 6 of part I and section 1 of part II )	Albert Camus: “The Myth of Sisyphus” Albert Camus: “Summer in Algiers”
7	Text Discussion	Albert Camus: The Outsider (section 2 of part II)	Albert Camus: “The Myth of Sisyphus” Albert Camus: “Summer in Algiers”
8	Text Discussion	Albert Camus: The Outsider (section 3&4 of part II)	Albert Camus: “The Myth of Sisyphus” Albert Camus: “Summer in Algiers"
9	Text Discussion	Albert Camus: The Outsider (section 5 of part II & Afterword)	Albert Camus: “The Myth of Sisyphus” Albert Camus: “Summer in Algiers”
10	Introduction to Bertolt Brecht and Text Discussion on Mother Courage and her Children	Mother Courage and her Children Ruby Chatterji: Introduction Notes Book: Mother Courage and Her Children (scene1,2 &3)	Ruby Chatterji: “Introduction Notes Book: Mother Courage and Her Children”
11	Text Discussion	Mother Courage and her Children (scene 4,5& 6)	Zahara Jannesary Ladani: “Reading Brechtian Minds in Mother Courage and her Children through Cognitive Analysis” Paul E. Farmer: “Mother Courage and the Future of War”
12	Text Discussion	Mother Courage and her Children (scene 8&9)	Zahara Jannesary Ladani: “Reading Brechtian Minds in Mother Courage and her Children through Cognitive Analysis” Paul E. Farmer: “Mother Courage and the Future of War”
13	Text Discussion	Mother Courage and her Children (scene 10)	Zahara Jannesary Ladani: “Reading Brechtian Minds in Mother Courage and her Children through Cognitive Analysis” Paul E. Farmer: “Mother Courage and the Future of War”

References:

Brecht, B. (1985). Mother Courage and Her Children. Oxford University Press.

Breen, G. M. (2019). Neither Algerian, nor French: Albert Camus’ Pied- Noir Identity. Mediterranean Studies, 27 (2), 210-233.

Camus, A. The Outsider.

Camus, A. (1995). An Absurd Reasoning. The Myth of Sisyphus. Penguin Books, 10-63.

Camus, A. (1995). Summer in Algiers. The Myth of Sisyphus. Penguin Books, 125-138.

Clegg, S., e Cunha, M. P. Munro, I., Rego, A., & de Sousa, M. O. (2016). Kafkaesque Power and Bureaucracy. Journal of Political Power, 9(2), 157-181.

Corngold, S. (1988). Principles of Kafka Interpretation. Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form. 291-298.

Farmer, P. E. (2014). Mother Courage and the Future of War. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, 52(2), 165-184.

Kafka, F. (1998). A Hunger Artist. Kafka: Selected Short Stories. Srishty Publishers, 243-355.

Kafka, F. (1998). First Sorrow. Kafka: Selected Short Stories. Srishty Publishers, 231-233.

Kafka, F. (1998). Metamorphosis. Kafka: Selected Short Stories. Srishty Publishers, 67-134.

Kundera, M. (1988). Kafka’s World. Wilson Quarterly, 12 (5), 88-99.

Ladani, Z. J. (2014). Reading Brechtian Minds in Mother Courage and her Children through Cognitive Analysis. International Journal of Management and

Humanity Sciences, S (4), 4305-4315.

Mairowitz, D. Z. & Korkos, A. (2012). Introducing Camus: A Graphic Guide, Icon Books.

Polzler, T. (2018). Camus’ Feeling of the Absurd. Journal Value Inquiry, 52, 477-490.

Rubinstein, W. C. (1952). A Hunger Artist. Monatshefte, 4 (1), 13-19.

Name: Hamalna Nizam

Signature:

Running

Studies in Shakespeare

English Discipline

Khulna University, Khulna

Couse Plan

Course Code: Eng 5203 (Section B)

Course Title: Studies in Shakespeare

Week	Topic/Part of a text	Core material	Supplementary materials
1	Introducing Julius Caesar and Discussing the text	John Dover Wilson: ‘Introduction’ to Julius Caesar (The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare) Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (act I)	Lloyd Davis: “Embodied Masculinity in Julius Caesar” Gail Kern Paster:” “In the Spirit of Men there is No Blood”: Blood as Trope of Gender in Julius Caesar”
2	Discussing the text	Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (act II)	John Roe: “Julius Caesar: Conscience and Conspiracy” Gail Kern Paster: ““In the Spirit of Men there is No Blood”: Blood as Trope of Gender in Julius Caesar” Norman Rabkin: “Structure, Convention and Meaning in Julius Caesar”
3	Discussing the text	Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (act III)	John Roe: “Julius Caesar: Conscience and Conspiracy” Gail Kern Paster: “ “In the Spirit of Men there is No Blood”: Blood as Trope of Gender in Julius Caesar” Norman Rabkin: “Structure, Convention and Meaning in Julius Caesar”
4	Discussing the text	Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (act IV)	John Roe: “Julius Caesar: Conscience and Conspiracy” Gail Kern Paster: “ “In the Spirit of Men there is No Blood”: Blood as Trope of Gender in Julius Caesar” Norman Rabkin: “Structure, Convention and Meaning in Julius Caesar”
5	Discussing the text	Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (act V)	John Roe: “Julius Caesar: Conscience and Conspiracy” Gail Kern Paster: “ “In the Spirit of Men there is No Blood”: Blood as Trope of Gender in Julius Caesar” Norman Rabkin: “Structure, Convention and Meaning in Julius Caesar”
6	General discussion on the text	Shakespeare: Julius Caesar	John Roe: “Julius Caesar: Conscience and Conspiracy” Gail Kern Paster: “ “In the Spirit of Men there is No Blood”: Blood as Trope of Gender in Julius Caesar” Norman Rabkin: “Structure, Convention and Meaning in Julius Caesar”
7	Introducing and discussing Bloom’s ‘Introduction’ to Julius Caesar	Harold Bloom: ‘Introduction’ to Julius Caesar	Jan H. Blits: “Manliness and Friendship in Julius Caesar”
8	Discussion on “Oblique Angles”	Stephen Greenblatt: “Oblique Angles” Book: Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power	Nicholas Visser: “Plebian Politics in Julius Caesar”
9	Discussion on “Oblique Angles”	Stephen Greenblatt: “Oblique Angles” Book: Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power	Nicholas Visser: “Plebian Politics in Julius Caesar”
10	Discussion on “Oblique Angles”	Stephen Greenblatt: “Oblique Angles” Book: Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power	Nicholas Visser: “Plebian Politics in Julius Caesar”
11	Discussion on “Madness in Great Ones”	Stephen Greenblatt: “Madness in Great Ones” Book: Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power	Daniel Juan Gill: “Bare Life”: “Political Order and the Specter of Antisocial Being in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar”
12	Discussion on “Madness in Great Ones”	Stephen Greenblatt: “Madness in Great Ones” Book: Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power	Daniel Juan Gill: ““Bare Life”: Political Order and the Specter of Antisocial Being in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar”
13	Discussion on “Madness in Great Ones”	Stephen Greenblatt: “Madness in Great Ones” Book: Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power	Daniel Juan Gill: “Bare Life”: “Political Order and the Specter of Antisocial Being in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar”

References:

Blits, J. H. (2010). Manliness and Friendship in Julius Caesar. Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations William Shakespeare’s

Julius Caesar, Infobase Publishing, 31-46.

Bloom, H. (2010). Introduction. In H. Bloom (Ed.), William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

(pp. 1-3). Infobase Publishing

Bloom, H. (2010). Introduction. In H. Bloom (Ed.), William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

(pp. 1-3). Infobase Publishing

Bloom, H. (2010). Introduction. In H. Bloom (Ed.), William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Infobase Publishing, 1-3.

Davis, L. (2010). Embodied Masculinity in Julius Caesar. Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations William Shakespeare’s Julius

Caesar, Infobase Publishing, 115-130.

Gill, D. J. (2010). “Bare Life”: Political Order and the Specter of Antisocial Being in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar”. Bloom’s Modern

Critical Interpretations William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Infobase Publishing, 147-162.

Greenblatt, S. (2018). Oblique Angles. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, W.W.Norton & Company, 1-23.

Greenblatt, S. (2018). Madness in Great Ones. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, W.W.Norton & Company, 113-136.

Paster, G. K. (1989). In the Spirit of Men there is No Blood”: Blood as Trope of Gender in Julius Caesar. Shakespeare Quarterly,

40 (3), 284-298.

Rabkin, N. (1964). Structure, Convention, and Meaning in “Julius Caesar”. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 63(2),

240-254.

Roe, J. (2010). Julius Caesar: Conscience and Conspiracy. Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations William Shakespeare’s Julius

Caesar, Infobase Publishing, 67-114.

Shakespeare, W. (2009). Julius Caesar, Cambridge University Press.

Visser, N. (2010). Plebian Politics in Julius Caesar. Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,

Infobase Publishing, 47-60.

Name: Hamalna Nizam

Signature:

Running

Literary Theory II

Continental Literature

Studies in Shakespeare