Dr. Hossain Al Mamun has completed his BA (Honours), MA, MPhil, and PhD in English Literature. Currently, he is a professor and head of the Department of English at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. His teaching and research interests include Shakespeare, Chinua Achebe, Edward Said, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Syed Waliullah, 20th Century Fiction, Research Methodology, Postcolonial Studies, Ecocriticism, South Asian Literature, Trauma Studies, and Human Rights in Literature. His last published book is Sixes: Six-word Stories (2019). He has published several books, book chapters, and research articles on postcolonial literature with much international repute. His upcoming edited book is CHINUA ACHEBE: Voice and Vision.

IVLP Impact Award Project: Developing Writing Skills: The Essence and Emergence of Establishing Writing Center at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

This project promoted the development of writing skills for the students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh, following four methods: expository, descriptive, persuasive, and narrative. The project started by distributing a questionnaire to identify students' problem areas and create the curriculum for the meetings. Then, through five practical workshops, 500 students developed their capacities in grammar, vocabulary, style, reference and plagiarism, rules of academic writing, formal writing, academic writing, effective writing, emails, cover letters, and CVs. After the workshop, another survey was conducted has shown how much they have learned and enjoyed the project workshops. Based on the survey results, this project helped students reach a level of proficiency that they usually would not achieve until graduation. Because of this project's success and popularity, the University plans to establish a writing center soon so students can continue to perfect their writing skills.

"The workshop breaks our traditional thoughts and provides new knowledge for meeting the new challenges of the competitive world." - Project participant

IVLP Exchange Experience 

Hossain was a participant in the IVLP Project Academic Writing in Higher Education, organized by the U.S. Department of State and Meridian International Center.

Hossain's exchange experience led to the development of his IVLP Impact Award Project: "Writing centers in American universities and colleges influence me to teach and guide students in the same manner here in Bangladesh."

U.S. Communities Visited

Washington, DC; Orlando, FL; Iowa City, IA; Boston, MA; Springfield, MA

"I have visited from Washington D.C. to Boston to Iowa to Florida where I have experienced so many impactful writing centers and their resource persons, students and volunteers who are very much a positive to developing the writing skills of the students and researchers." - Dr. Hossain Al Mamun

Country: Bangladesh

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