Dr. G. M. Javed Arif
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I love to teach poetry mainly, and over the years I have taught many different courses, from Grammar, Composition, and Translation Studies, to Novels, Plays, and Theory. 

Once I thought I would never pursue PhD studies and instead write poems only, but a few years later I changed my mind and obtained a PhD degree. 

In my doctoral dissertation, titled "Adrienne Rich's Poetry: Thematic and Theoretical Alignments", I used theories like postmodernism, feminism, and postcolonialism, and explored how the American poet Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) dealt with aesthetics, women, race, and history in her last four books of poetry – Fox, The School Among the Ruins, Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth, and Tonight No Poetry Will Serve. Working for a PhD was really cool.

I still write poems occasionally, and currently I am teaching a course in Creative Writing.

PhD (Rajshahi University)

MA in English (Rajshahi University)

BA (Hons) in English (Rajshahi University)


Modern and contemporary poetry; Literary and cultural theories

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    Journal Articles:

    Arif, G. M. Javed. "Parallelisms and Contrasts in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night." Khulna University Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, Dec. 2023, pp. 20-28. https://kus.ku.ac.bd/kustudies/article/view/984.

     

    Arif, G. M. Javed. “Desire on the Road: A Psychoanalytical Reading of ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’.” Khulna University Studies, 22 Aug. 2023, pp. 1-12. https://kus.ku.ac.bd/kustudies/article/view/988.

    Arif, G. M. Javed. “The ‘Marble-hearted fiend’: Material, Psychological, and Spiritual Aspects of Parent-Child Relationship in King Lear.” Khulna University Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, June 2023, pp. 17-30. https://kus.ku.ac.bd/kustudies/article/view/989.


    Arif, G. M. Javed. “The Drone and the Bee: Man-Woman Relationship in G. B. Shaw’s Man and Superman.” Khulna University Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, June 2023, pp. 9-16. https://kus.ku.ac.bd/kustudies/article/view/983.


    Arif, G. M. Javed. “Man, Nature, and Imagination: A Comparative Reading of ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’.” Khulna University Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, June 2022, pp. 18-25. https://kus.ku.ac.bd/kustudies/article/view/55.


    Arif, G. M. Javed. “Perpetual Paradoxes: A New Critical Reading of ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’.” Khulna University Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, Dec. 2021, pp. 1-8. https://kus.ku.ac.bd/kustudies/article/view/33.


    Arif, G. M. Javed. “The Postmodern Turn: Irony and Parody in ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.’” East West University Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2007, pp. 31-41. http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/2525/2793.


    Arif, G. M. Javed. “Macbeth’s Identity Crisis: Shakespeare as the Saviour.” Khulna University Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2000, pp. 245-256. https://kus.ku.ac.bd/kustudies/article/view/693.

    https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=O0EI1goAAAAJ&citation_for_view=O0EI1goAAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC  


    Conference Papers:

    Arif, G. M. Javed. “The “hopeless war”: An Exploration into Adrienne Rich’s Anti-war Poetry.” First International Conference on Relevance of Humanities Studies in the Twenty-First Century, 22-23 Feb., 2023, Arts and Humanities School, Khulna University, Khulna.


    Arif, G. M. Javed. “Developing English Department Students: A Classroom Writing Strategy.” Third International Conference of Bangladesh English Language Teachers Association (BELTA), 15 Sept, 2005, British Council, Dhaka.

    https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=O0EI1goAAAAJ&citation_for_view=O0EI1goAAAAJ:Tyk-4Ss8FVUC


    Seminar Papers:

    Arif, G. M. Javed. “Siamese Twins: Concurrent Origin and Corresponding Characteristics of Postmodernism and Postcolonialism.” Refereed Proceedings of the Seminar on Contemporary Issues in English Language and Literature, Apr. 1, 2006, edited by M. E. Huq et al., English Discipline, Khulna University, 2006, pp. 15-29.    https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=O0EI1goAA AAJ&citation_for_view=O0EI1goAAAAJ:IjCSPb-OGe4C


    Arif, G. M. Javed. “Wedded to her in lust”: A Psychoanalytic View of Sexuality and Aggression­ towards the Mother Sow in Lord of the Flies.” Refereed Proceedings of the Seminar on Contemporary Issues in English Language and Literature, Apr. 1, 2006, edited by M. E. Huq et al., English Discipline, Khulna University, 2006, pp. 71-84.    https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=O0EI1goAAAAJ&citation_for_view=O0EI1goAAAAJ:qjMakFHDy7sC


    Eng 3201: American Poetry

    Section – B


    (1) Allen Ginsberg: “Howl” (Section I); “September on Jessore Road”
    (2) Adrienne Rich: “Living in Sin”; “Diving into the Wreck”
    (3) Sylvia Plath: “Daddy”; “Ariel”
    (4) Anne Sexton: “Sylvia’s Death”

    Running

    Eng 3203: Literary Theory II

    Section – A


    (1) Viktor Shklovsky: “Art as Technique”
    (2) J. L. Austin: How To Do Things with Words (Selection from Literary Theory: An Anthology)
    (3) Jacques Lacan: “The Mirror Stage”
    (4) Louis Althusser: “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”

    Running

    Eng 4201: Twentieth-Century English Poetry and Drama

    Section – A


    (1) W. B. Yeats: “The Second Coming”; “Sailing to Byzantium”, “Byzantium”; “A Prayer for My Daughter”, “Easter 1916”
    (2) T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; “The Waste Land”
    (3) W.H. Auden: “Muse des Beaux Arts”; “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
    (4) Ted Hughes: “The Seven Sorrows”; “River”; “Pike”

    Running

    Eng 1101: Introduction to Poetry

    Section –B

     

    1. W.B. Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

    2. Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

    3. Ezra Pound: The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

    4. Adrienne Rich: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

    5. Seamus Heaney: Digging

    6. Kaiser Haq: Ode on the Lungi

    Eng 3103: Literary Theory

    Section –A

    1. What is Literary Theory: Definition, Nature and Scope; Literature, Literary Criticism and Literary Theory; Recurrent Ideas in Critical Theory

    2. Formalisms: Arnold’s Academic Heritage; Anglo-American New Criticism; Russian Formalism

    3. Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Language and Structure; The Theory of the Sign; Narratology; Intertextuality; ‘Depth’ and ‘Surface’ Readings; Ferdinand de Saussure; Roman Jakobson; Jacques Derrida; Michel Foucault

    4. Psychoanalytic Criticism: The Concept of the Unconscious; The Instinctual Drives; The Structure of Psychic Personality; Freudian Psychoanalysis; Neo-Freudianism; Object Relations; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan

    Section –B

    1. Marxism: Class; Ideology; Hegemony; General Marxist Literary Criticism; Frankfurt School; George Lukacs; Louis Althusser; Terry Eagleton

    2. Feminism: Gender; Women and Literature; Sexual Identity; Anglo-American Feminist Criticism; French Feminist Theory; Virginia Woolf; Kate Millett; Elaine Showalter; Julia  Kristeva

    3. Postcolonialism: Background; Orientalism; Colonized and Colonizer; The Subaltern;  Postcolonial Literature; Frantz Fanon; Edward Said; Homi K Bhabha; Gayatri  Chakravorty Spivak

    4. Postmodernism: Discourse; Metanarrative; Simulacra; Virtuality; From Modernism to  Postmodernism; Jean Baudrillard; Jean-Francois Lyotard; Manuel Castel

    Eng 3110: Sessional on Romantic and Victorian Poetry

    The course is designed to help students

    •get acquainted with the techniques of reciting poetry,

    •acquire knowledge on translating and adapting poetry,

    •develop students‟ critical awareness of reading poetry

     

    After studying the course students will be able to

    •demonstrate genre shifting by adapting the extracts from selected poems into short scenes and/or short stories,

    •present the extracts from poetry in posters,

    •develop critical thinking and recitation skills

     

    1. Hyperion (Book 1)

    2. Don Juan (Canto 1)

    3. Ulysses

    4. My Last Duchess

    • Eng 1101: Introduction to Poetry
    • Eng 3103: Literary Theory
    • Eng 3110: Sessional on Romantic and Victorian Poetry