Professor Suresh Ranjan Basak PhD

Dr. Suresh Ranjan Basak is Professor of English and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Metropolitan University, Sylhet. Widely known as an author, researcher and translator, Professor Basak has teaching experience of more than thirty -eight years both at home and abroad. He has so far published fifty articles in various journals (English and Bengali) and twenty-five books from renowned national ( including Bangla Academy) and international publishers. His E. M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand and Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A postcolonial Reading of Inherited dichotomies is considered a seminal critical text on the area. He has been anthologized in UPL Selected Essays of Bangladesh 2001, Jibanananda Das : A Centenary Volume , Eds. Abdul Mannan Syed and Abul Hasnat, Shamsur Rahman Sharakgrontho, Ed. Professor Anisuzzaman etc. He is the Editor of Metropolitan University Journal of English and reviewer of many national and international journals including ISLE Journal (Interdisciplinary Studies on Literature and Environment published by Oxford University). His areas of research include Postcolonial literatures ((English, American and Latin American), Postmodern Literature, Diaspora, Eco-critical Literature, Translation Studies and Rabindranath Tagore.