Anika Saba
Lecturer
Anika Saba joined ENH as a faculty member in 2017. She completed her second Masters in English Studies (Pathway: Writing in the Modern Age) from Queen Mary, University of London, in 2016. She did her first MA in English Literature and BA (Honours) in English from University of Dhaka. Her areas of interest are from modern to contemporary literature especially those related to war and trauma. She wants to pursue her PhD in the field of trauma studies. She is currently involved in a range of research projects on war, trauma, postmodern and post-colonial literature. She teaches courses in the Literature stream, and supervises theses of both undergraduate- and graduate-level students at the department.
Address
Level: 5
Kha-224 Merul Badda
Dhaka 1212. Bangladesh
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Education
+–- MA in English Studies (Pathway: Writing in the Modern Age) from Queen Mary, University of London, 2015- 2016
Area: War and Trauma
Thesis Title
The Lesser-known Traumas: History and War in Salman Rushdie and Milan Kundera
- MA in English (Literature), Department of English, University of Dhaka, 2014-2015
- BA (Honours) in English, Department of English, University of Dhaka, 2010-2014
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Publications
+–Selected Publications
Book Chapters
Saba, A. (2019). Cyborg identities in peripheral borderlands. In S. Das, B. Tripathy, & D. Routray (Eds.), Performing the nation: Memory and desire in contemporary literature (pp. 21–33). Odisha: BirdNest (an imprint of Pakshighar Prakashanee).
Saba, A., & Khan, F. (2017). Women in the Great War: Phoenix or Phantom. In F. Alam, T. Ahmed, & Z. Alam (Eds.), The great war and our mindscapes (pp. 130–142). Dhaka: writers.ink.
Journals
Mahbub, R., & Saba, A. (2018). Homed, unhomed and rehomed in partition stories of East Bengal/East Pakistan. Asiatic, 12(1), 108–125.
Mahbub, R., & Saba, A. (2018). Homed, unhomed and rehomed in partition stories of East Bengal/East Pakistan. Asiatic, 12(1), 108–125. Retrieved from https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1212
Saba, A. (2015). Of movies and money: Is film industry the biggest cultural industry today. Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, Special, 93–98.
Saba, A. (2015). Modern trinity of insanity: Love sex and death equals to loss of sanity. Spectrum, 10&11, 1–6.
Conferences
Saba, A. (2019). Tracing the Armenian genocide through testimonies of the Dildilian family in Armen T. Marsoobian’s book Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia. Dhaka.
Saba, A. (2017). Trauma and homosexuality in contemporary fiction: Sarah Waters’ the night watch and Sarah Hall’s the Carhullan army. In Redrawing gender boundaries in literary terrains. Dhaka.
Book Review
Saba, A. (2017, October 21). THUMBNAIL REVIEW [Review of the book The Forty Rules of Love, by Elif Shafak]. The Daily Star Book Review, Retrieved from http://103.16.74.140/book-reviews/the-forty-rules-love-1479400
Saba, A. (2017, September 30). THUMBNAIL CLASSICS REVISITED? [Review of the book Franny and Zooey (1961) by J. D. Salinger]. The Daily Star Book Review, Retrieved from https://www.thedailystar.net/book-reviews/franny-and-zooey-1961-j-d-sali...
Newspaper/Magazine Articles
Saba, A. (2018, September 11). Waste not, want not. Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved from https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2018/09/11/waste-not-want-not-2-2-2
Saba, A. (2017, September 11). Genocide: What do we know about it? Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved from https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2017/09/17/genocide-what-do-we-know-about-it
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Professional Activities
+–- Conference Committee member at the international conference Rethinking Disciplinary Diversity: Challenges of Teaching English in the 21st Century organised by the Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University (15-16 Nov 2018).
- Facilitator of OBE (Outcome-Based Education) workshop at the Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University held on 24-25 Oct 2018.
- Facilitator of EPR (External Peer Review) of the Institutional Quality Assurance Cell, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University (Feb 2018).
- Participant of PDC (Professional Development Centre), BRAC University (Fall 2017).
- Member of GenED (General Education) Committee at the Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University (Fall 2017- present).
- Conference Committee member at the international conference Redrawing Gender Boundaries in Literary Terrains organised by the Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University (18-19 May 2017).
Professional Skills and Training:
- Post-graduate Diploma on Genocide Studies, Centre for Genocide Studies, University of Dhaka (Completed in Nov 2018).
- Completed six months theatrical course from Prachyanat School of Acting and Design and participated (as assistant director and actor) in the final production, Girish Karnad’s Rakt kalyan, by the 21st Batch, in 2012.
- Passed Intermediate Level (Delf A2) in French language from Alliance Française de Dhaka in 2009.
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Courses Taught
+–Introduction to Poetry, Research Methodology, The Urban Novel, Modern British Drama, Twentieth-Century English Literature at undergraduate level and Postmodernist American Literature: from the 1960's to the present at graduate level.
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Conferences, Talks, and Speaking Engagements
+–- Participant of Book Review Workshop organised by University of Liberal Arts and Dhaka Translation Centre (Nov 2017).
- Participant at the workshop on 1971 accompanied with the launch of Nayanika Mookherjee’s book – The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971- in Bangladesh (August 2017).
- Presented paper at the international conference Redrawing Gender Boundaries in Literary Terrains organised by the Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University (18-19 May 2017).
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Awards, Honors
+–- Dhaka University English Department Alumni Association Award for securing third position in BA (2014).
- Daily Star Award for Advanced Level Examinations ( 2009)
- Daily Star Award for Ordinary level Examinations (2007)
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Membership
+–- Advisory Committee member for Resonance, a bilingual creative writing journal, published by Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University (Fall 2018- present).
- Co-advisor of BRAC University Drama and Theatre Forum (Fall 2017- present)
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Research Areas/Interests
+–- Modern to contemporary literature especially related to war and trauma studies.