
Seema Nusrat Amin
Level: 5
Kha-224 Merul Badda
Dhaka 1212. Bangladesh
Ms. Seema Nusrat Amin joined ENH as a faculty member in September 2018. She has completed her MFA in Creative Writing with a thesis in poetry from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2018 and has a post-graduate diploma in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England. She received her BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, with a concentration in Literature and Global Studies, which included an immersive year studying French language and literature in Paris. She is currently involved in a range of writing and editing projects related to the publishing and presentation of her MFA manuscript. Before joining BRAC, she was an English teacher at the Asian University for women and a Teaching Assistant at the University of British Columbia. She has also worked in various rights and development organizations, such as the ILO in Geneva, People’s Empowerment in Bangkok, as well as having taught in the Right-to Write-creative writing program in women’s prisons in Yonkers, New York.
She teaches courses in the Literature stream such as English Composition, Romantic and Victorian Literature and English prose, as well as Media courses, and supervises theses at the department.
MFA, Creative Writing
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, May 2018
GSA Award & Provost’s Choice Award
B.A., Liberal Arts (Literature and Global Studies)
Sarah Lawrence College, New York, USA. 2004
Intensive Year in French Abroad: Paris, at Paris X, Nanterre.
Scholarship: Marguerite W. Award for Academic Excellence (2002--4)
Post Graduate Diploma, Development Studies
University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. November 2006.
Masters in Resource and Environmental Management.
North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. March 2014.
High School Diploma
o Ruam Rudee International School, Thailand. 2000
Books
Amin, S. N. (2005). Bootsole unbound: by the wayside of mystery. Dhaka: University Press Limited.
Amin, S. N. (1997). Ramblings. Dhaka: University Press Limited.
Book Chapters
Amin, S. N. (2019). Radical alterity as an alternative to the marginalization of the hybrid text in South Asia. In Performing the nation: memory and desire in contemporary literature. (pp. 221–234). Odisha: BirdNest.
Amin, S. N. (2014). Soothsayer (a poem). In Monsoon letters: poetry anthology. Dhaka: University Press Limited.
Journals
Amin, S. N. (2014). The hint of blue ages. Six Seasons Review, 1(2), 49–50.
Amin, S. N. (2014). Golden afternoon. Six Seasons Review, 1(2), 50–51.
Amin, S. N. (2014). Price of rice. Six Seasons Review, 1(2), 52–53.
Amin, S. N. (2006). A Kerosene lamp. Fulcrum, (5), 300–301.
Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Amin, S. N. (2019, March 26). Victory, gibberish and time. New Age.
Amin, S. N. (2018, November 6). Who is next? New Age.
Amin, S. N. (2018, July 22). Connecting the dots: from Trans-Mountain to the Sundarbans. New Age.
Amin, S. N. (2018, May). Flower with no roots? Genealogies of her transmutations, Tantra,” Part I & II. Fragments .
Amin, S. N. (2018, March 19). Coming from genocide. UBC Alternative Student Press.
Amin, S. N. (2017, June). Let lightning strike me: Charalnama’s deconstruction of Tagorian haute ‘culture. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2017, June). Chamaeleonidae. Dhaka Tribune Literary Supplement.
Amin, S. N. (2016, December). Only connect: the third edition. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2016, June). Hybridity and holarchy in Gods and Beasts: Disjunctures and continuities in the Mythos of Ronni. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2015, November 15). Missed call: no exit: November. New Age.
Amin, S. N. (2015, September). Creating the opposite dream: Syed Jamil Ahmed’s singular contribution to the politics of performance in South and Southeast Asia. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2015, June). Chills from the periphery. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2015, May 1). A tale of two mockingbirds: Public reaction in Pohela Boishakh and echoing namelessness. Dhaka Tribune.
Amin, S. N. (2015, January 1). What is left of the political field and what is at stake. Dhaka Tribune.
Amin, S. N. (2014, September). Re-cognizing transience in Taziyeh and Darbar. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2014, September). Conspiritual, the never-ending novum and its primal danger. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2014, September). Reading Bangkok: The deflected gaze in the e/ il usive city. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2014, September). Breaking through minimalism. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2014, June). Intimations of an estranged familiar. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2014, June). Staging of the contemporary in Dhaka Art Summit. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2014, March 16). Fruits of her labour. New Age.
Amin, S. N. (2013, March 1). Shahbag slides into an old identity dichotomy. New Age.
Amin, S. N. (2012, September). Unfinished paradise in an unscheduled Venice: functionality and aesthetics in the expansion of Mughal Dhaka. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2012, September). Shadow-boxing with his(s-) story: The young man was (Part 1: United Red Army. Depart.
Amin, S. N. (2012, May). Strategies of power in a Hiccupocracy. Daily Star Magazine.
Amin, S. N. (2011, July 4). Lady or the tiger? Rhetorical nationalism vs. real sovereignty. New Age.
Editorial Adviser of Resonance BRAC Literary Journal’s Editorial Board (Department of English & Humanities)
Editing poetry manuscript for submission to blazeVox, Nightwood and others .
Co-organizer of Film Series Insurrection, Depart Magazine and Bayan Collective.
Readings from Bootsole Unbound in Fulcrum’s fifth Issue at Harvard Square, Lame Duck Books, 2007; Bishaud Bangla, Chittagong 2011; Sarah Lawrence College, New York, 2004.
Recitation of ‘Dhaka Nightly’ with Recitation Collective at Goethe Institute, Dhaka. 2012.
Readings from “Bootsole Unbound” in Bishad Bangla Asian Performance and Cultural Center, Chittagong, 2011.
Professional Skills/Trainings
BRACU Faculty Orientation organised by Institute of Educational Development, BRAC University, September 2008
- TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certification, TEFL International, Ban phe, Thailand. 2009
- Professional Development Course (to begin) February 2019 at PDC, BRAC University.
English Composition, Survey of English Literature II: Romantic and Victorian period, Globalization and Media, Introduction to English Prose.
- Readings (excerpts from thesis), Cottage Bistro, Vancouver, Canada, September 2017.
- Staged Reading of “The Runner,” self-written play at UBC Advanced Drama class, at Vancouver Brave New Play Rites in Granville Island, March 2018.
- Paper presentation of “Radical Alterity as an Alternative to the Marginalization of the Hybrid Text in South Asia” International conference on “Performing the nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature” of 8-9 February in Berhampur University in Odisha, India at ENH Sharing Session, BRAC University.
Marguerite W. Award for Academic Excellence(2002--4) from Sarah Lawrence College.
Poetry Award Short List from International Poets Society 1994.
Provost’s Award from University of British Columbia
Member, Lalon World Society
Member, Recitation Collective, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Avant-gardism and Surrealism in Poetry
Performance Studies
Political Ecology
Interdisciplinary research (Art, Philosophy, Cultural studies)