Profile of Bismadeb Chowdhury

Bhishmadeb Choudhury (ভীষ্মদেব চৌধুরী) Ph D
Professor, Department of Bangla, University of Dhaka
Teaching since 1984 to present; Professor (since 2000)

Education:

BA (hons.), 1st Class (1st position), Year: 1978 , DU
MA, 1st Class (1st position), Year: 1979, DU
Ph D (DU), Year: 1995 ; Subject : তারাশঙ্কর বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের উপন্যাস : সমাজ ও রাজনীতি

Recent Research and Academic/Literary Activities:

  1. Editor : `Ontordesh’ ; a half-yearly (Fall and Spring) magazine of five hundred pages on literature-life and earth. First Issue Published at Dhaka on August 2014.
  2. Convenor, Writers Pannel; higher-secondary level Bangla-selection `…’, published by NCTB, Bangladesh in 2014.
  3. Editor : `Probhatsurjya’ (The Morning Sun); Tagore …. memorial volume Printed and publishd from Dhaka.
  4. Contributor as an essayist of Tagore … memorial volume `Rabindranath’,edited by Professor Anisuzzaman,Padmabhushano and published by the Biswabhharoty.
  5. Project Director (Project Duration: 2007-2012); Twentieth Century’s Essays of Bangladesh, Bangladesh University Grants Commission, Agargaon, Dhak

Special Academic Activities:

  1. Member of curriculum and syllabus committee, Department of Bangla, DU for last twenty five years.
  2. Working as a supervisor and co-supervisor of Ph D and M Phil research fellows of DU and Jahangirnagar University.
  3. Working as Ph D and M Phil thesis examiner in and outside of the country.
  4. Member, Curriculum Preparation Committee for Bangla Language and Literature HSC Level, NCTB

Institutional research experience
Worked as junior research fellow; Bangladesh University Grant Commission, 1990-1992.

Administrative Works:
1. Former Student Advisor, Department of Bangla, DU
2. Former House Tutor, Jagannath Hall, DU

Others:
1. Life member of Bangla Academy.
2. Former Presidium Member of Central Khelaghar Ashar (a national juvenile organization of Bangladesh)
3. Editor, Bangladesh Asiatic Society Patrika, 2010-2011
4. Member, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (ASB)

Seminar Attended:

Attended several literary seminars at home and abroad. Specially as follows:

1. As a guest speaker on bangla narrative fiction at the Calcutta University in 1999.
2. Guest speaker as resource person of National University of Bangladesh in 1998- 2011
3. As guest speaker at Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka.
4. Presented paper on Novels of Buddhadev Bose at Assam University, Silchar, India in Buddhadev Centenary Festival, 2008.
5. Delivered `Abdul Gaffar Datta Choudhury Memorial Lecture’ at Shajalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, 2009

List of Bangla research publications : (Click for Details বিস্তারিত)

Research Books (10)
Edited Research Books (7)