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Core Faculty Member Assistant Professor Ph.D. in English Literature, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand M.A. in Contemporary Literature & Culture, University of Manchester, UK |
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| Office: NAC945 Telephone: +880-2-55668200 Ext: 2020 Mobile: Email: samira.aziz@northsouth.edu |
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Publications
1.Aziz, Samira.“Paul La Farge’s The Night Ocean.”Accepted in the forthcoming issue of the Irish
Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.
2. Aziz, Samira. “Black Holes.” What Lurks Beyond, edited by Maria Mollah,Worthy Publications,
2018, pp. 59-67.
3. Aziz, Samira. "The Horrors of History in Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian." Chaos 4:1 (2016)
28-37.
4. Aziz, Samira. “Retracing the Past: Documentary Evidence in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, A. S.
Byatt’s Possession, and Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden.” Panini 6: 177-203.
Conference presentations
1. Aziz, Samira. (2024, December). "“The flower arrangements of history!” Empathy and Witnessing in George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo." Featured paper presented at BELTA-NSU International Conference: 11th Belta International Conference, North South University.
2. Aziz, Samira. (2023, January). ““The Truths of Fiction Reside in Metaphor; But Metaphor is
Here Generated by History:” Telling it Slant in Joyce Carol Oates’ The Accursed.”” Presented
at Gothic Networks: GANZA Online Conference 2023. Co-hosted online by Curtin University,
Australia. [Conference Zoom Presentation]
3. Aziz, Samira. (2022, October). ““As though history & the written word were friends, rather
than adversaries!”: History and Truth in Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish (2001).””
Presented at New Historians Conference, Victoria University of Wellington. [Conference
Zoom presentation]
4. Aziz, Samira. (2022, September). “The Ethical Historian in Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian.”
Presented at The Past as Nightmare, University of Reading. [Conference Zoom presentation]
5. Aziz, Samira and Nasrin Pervin. (2022, January). “The Monstrous Mother in Dakshinaranjan
Mitra Majumder’s “Lalkomol Neelkomol.”” Presented at Gothic Trajectories: GANZA Online
Conference 2022. [Conference Zoom Presentation]
6. Aziz, Samira. (2021, September). "But I do have hope, I feel it in here like a pain!:"
Redemption and Ethics in Sarah Perry's Melmoth.” Presented at GFF Conference 2021:
Speculative Fiction and Ethics, University of Cologne and the University of Bamberg.
[Conference Zoom presentation]
7. Aziz, Samira. (2021, August). “Omniscient Narration in Joyce Carol Oates’ The Accursed.”
Presented at Beyond Borders: The Postgraduate Conference 2021, Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand. [Conference Oral Presentation]
8. Aziz, Samira. (2021, June). “And the more frightening the future is, the more complicated it
seems to be, the more we steady ourselves with the past”: An Optimistic Revisiting of the Past
in Lauren Groff ’s The Monsters of Templeton.” Presented at Rewriting/Revisiting the Past 2021,
Yeditepe University,Turkey [Conference Zoom Presentation]
9. Aziz, Samira. (2021, April). “The Shift to Historical Realism through the Dracula mythos in
Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian.” Presented at Children of the Night International Dracula
Congress 2021 [Conference Zoom presentation]
10. Aziz, Samira. (2021, February).“The Catastrophe of History and Culture in Susan Barker’s The
Incarnations.” Presented at Remembering the Catastrophe, Historical Fictions Research Network
[Conference Zoom presentation]
11. Aziz Samira. (2019, August). "He Who Strikes First Wins": The Panopticon in Death
Note.” Presented at To The Lighthouse: The Postgraduate Conference 2019, Victoria University
of Wellington, New Zealand. [Conference Oral Presentation]
12. Aziz, Samira. (2018, December). “An Orison on the Future of Capitalism in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.” Presented at Language, Literature, Culture, and Politics, University of
Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Conference Oral Presentation]
13. Aziz, Samira. (2016, May). "Magic in Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.”
Presented at Magic and Literature. University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
[Conference Oral Presentation]
14. Aziz, Samira. (2013, January). "The Horrors of History in Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian.”
Presented at Gothic Antipodes: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Auckland, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]
MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture
University of Manchester, UK (2009 - 2010)
BA in English, majoring in English Literature
North South University, Bangladesh, (2004 – 2007)
PhD in English Literature
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (May 2019-May 2023)
Title of Thesis: “That was a real story. All of my stories are real”: Metamodernism and the
Return to History in 21st Century Gothic Fiction
MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture
University of Manchester, UK (2009 - 2010)
• Average of 59.5% (Pass).
• Concentration in post-1970 literature
• Research work in historical fiction and popular fiction
BA in English, majoring in English Literature
North South University, Bangladesh, (2004 – 2007)
• Graduated cum laude with a CGPA of 3.64 on a scale of 4.
Position: Assistant Professor (core faculty member), Department of English and Modern Languages
University: North South University
Duration: May 2023 - present
Job Responsibilities:
Position: Senior Lecturer (core faculty member), Department of English and Modern Languages
University: North South University
Duration: May 2018 – May 2023
Job Responsibilities:
Position: Lecturer, Department of English and Modern Languages
University: North South University
Duration: September 2011 – May 2018
Job Responsibilities:
• Teaching English composition courses (English 102: Introduction to Composition and
English 103: Intermediate Composition) to undergraduate students
• Planning and developing course materials and lectures.
• Participating in questioner preparation team.
• Giving academic counseling to students outside class hours.
• Served as marker coordinator for the Department of English and Modern Languages from in
Summer 2017, Fall 2017, and Spring 2018. Duties include selecting candidates and assigning
them to various faculty members as markers.
• Served as Eng 102 course coordinator in Spring 2013, Summer 2015, and Fall 2015.
Duties include developing teaching materials and examination question papers, and
overseeing all the sections of the course for students learning development, course
completion, and other course related academic activities.
Position: Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of English and Modern Languages
University: North South University
Duration: January 2011 – August 2011
Job Responsibilities:
Position: Lecturer, Department of English Studies
University: State University of Bangladesh
Duration: September 2010 – December 2010
Job Responsibilities:
Gothic fiction, contemporary fiction, graveyard poetry