Department of English
Faculty
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social SciencesAddress
A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
PhD in Literature
The University of Texas at Dallas
2024
M.A in English Literature,
Dhaka University
B.A in English,
Dhaka University
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Post Graduate Diploma in International Relations
Fall 2008
Department of International Relations
University of Dhaka
I have a PhD in Literature. My area of expertise is 21st-century British literature. I examine how literary texts explore the relationship between literature (and aesthetics, in general), the philosophy of embodiment, and politics.
My dissertation, titled "The Enchantment of Embodied Living: Aesthetic Engagement and Modernity in Contemporary British Fiction," focuses on the literary-philosophical inquiry into what it means to be human in the age of neoliberalism. This literary-philosophical inquiry underscores how literary texts configure an alternative imaginary and redefine humanity. Drawing on the notions of embodiment, the dissertation provides an interpretation of modernity as offered by the select texts.
Teaching Associate and Instructor of Record
Fall 2019 - Spring 2024
The University of Texas at Dallas
Senior Lecturer, Department of English
East West University, Bangladesh
Since 29.06.2014
Lecturer, Department of English
East West University, Bangladesh
11.05.2011 to 29.06.2014
Lecturer, Department of English
Southeast University, Bangladesh
25.01.10 – 10.05.2011
Faculty, English Literature and Language
Scholastica, Dhaka
15.11.09- 24.01.10
Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature
Embodiment
New Materialism
Literary Criticism and Theory
Global Women's Cinema
American Literature
Rhetoric
1. Hasan, S. N. (2017). Comics and Graphic Novels: Counter Narratives to Cultural Products. Crossings, 8, 68-77.
2. Hasan, S. N. (2016). Woody Allen’s Auteurism: Adaptation as Production in Blue Jasmine. Harvest, 31, 45-56.
3. Hasan, S. N. (2017). Elisa Allen: Steinbeck’s Unconventional Portrayal of the Female Character in “The Chrysanthemums”. International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies, 4(1), 55-59.
4. Hasan, S. N. (2014). Teaching Vocabulary through Collaboration: Students as Independent Readers. Journal of Education and Practice, 5(13), 60-68.
1. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “Secular, Liberal Humanism and the Conundrum of Citizenship,”
July 29. 7 th Annual Texas Graduate Liberal Studies Symposium. Dallas, Texas, USA, July
29, 2023.
2. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “Artificial friends and the collapse of Humanity,” November 11.
PAMLA 119th Annual Conference. Los Angeles, California, USA, November 10-13, 2022.
3. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. ““Of the Sorrow Songs”: Du Bois and Black Folk Songs,”” October 22.
Sigma Tau Delta Southern Regional Conference. North Georgia, USA, October 22, 2022.
Virtual Presentation.
4. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “Happiness and an Enchanted Living,” April 15.
14th Annual Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference:
Where are we going? Human, cultural, environmental, and technological effects of human
displacement in the Anthropocene Epoch. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 15-16,
2022. Virtual Presentation.
5. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “Exit West and the Magic Doors: A Home Away from Home,”
February 12. The 13th Annual Research, Art & Writing Graduate Student Conference,
February 12, 2022: "Reality, Reflection, and Retrospection." Dallas, Texas, USA, February
12, 2022. Virtual Presentation.
6. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “G. M. Hopkins and Bridging of the ‘Enchantment’ and
‘Disenchantment,’” October 8. South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) 78th
Annual Conference. Houston, Texas, USA, October 7-9, 2021. Virtual Presentation.
7. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “Pauline Hopkins and the Spectacle of Meroe,” October 3. The
Transatlantic History Conference: Spectacle and Power in the Transatlantic World, THSO
2021. Arlington, Texas, USA, October 1-3, 2021.
8. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “Teaching Vocabulary through Collaboration: Students as Independent
Readers,” November 17. International Conference on Language (ICL), Phuket, Thailand, 16-
17 November 2013.
"The Enchantment of Embodied Living: Aesthetic Engagement and Modernity in Contemporary British Fiction"
The University of Texas at Dallas
2024
1. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “Lost in Translation,”5 th International Conference on Transgressing/
Transcending Borders through Translation. Bangladesh, January 25-26, 2019.
2. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “The Ballad of a New York Belle,” International Conference on
Language, Literature, and Community. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 10-11 July, 2015.
3. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “Food and Popular Culture: Toward a More Tolerant Society,”
Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies in the 21st Century: Translocating/Transgressing
Boundaries. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25-26 May, 2012.
4. Hasan, Syeda Nadia. “Hollywood and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ,” September 25. Tennessee
Williams in his Centenary Years. Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 25, 2011.
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Lambert Scholarship
Issued by Nina and Thomas Lambert Scholarship/Fellowship (BASS School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at UTD) · Jan 2024
Bangladesh Student Organization Scholarship
Issued by Bangladeshi Student Organization Alumni Scholarship at UTD · Jan 2023
Betty and Gifford Johnson Travel Award 2021, 2022 (Scholarship Golf Tournament - UTD Scholars - Facilities & Economic Development - The University of Texas at Dallas)
PAMLA Graduate Student Scholarship 2022
Graduate Teaching Certificate
The Center for Teaching and Learning at UTD (Spring 2024)
Courses Taught: ENG 9506 (Contemporary British Literature); ENG 9509 (Contemporary American Literature), ENG 426 (American Literature: from Modern to Contemporary); ENG 438 (Literary Criticism)
Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honor Society)
