Biography

Fakrul Alam is a reputed academic, writer, and translator. He writes on literary matters and postcolonial issues and translated works of leading Bangla poets including Rabindranath Tagore into English. He is the recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award (2012) in translation literature and SAARC Literary Award (2012).

He completed BA and MA in English at the University of Dhaka, earned a second master's degree from Simon Fraser University and achieved his PhD degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His PhD dissertation was on works of Daniel Defoe.

Alam was a faculty member at the Department of English of the University of Dhaka. He taught at several universities around the globe, including Clemson University, USA as a Fulbright Scholar, and Jadavpur University, India as a Visiting Associate Professor. Besides academic responsibilities, he was also the Director of the Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the University of Dhaka from 1993 to 1996, and Adviser of the Dhaka University Central Library from 2002 to 2003. He was a member of the Education Policy Implementation Committee constituted by the Government of Bangladesh. He is also an Adviser at the Department of English of East West University.

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