Qualification

Pursuing Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Rhetoric, Writing and Culture
North Dakota State University

MA in English Literature and Cultural Studies

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh

BA in English

 University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh

Experience

Research

Single-Authored Peer Reviewed Articles:

• “Fetal Personhood and the Access to Reproductive Rights: A Question of Power and Precarity in Post-Roe America”. Journal of International Women’s Studies. Special Issue: Reproductive Justice Across Disciplines and Demographics, vol 27, no 1, . https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3177&context=jiws 

• “The Creature Becomes a Monster: Using Feminist Disability Studies and the Politics of Recognition to Read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”. Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, Dec. 2024, pp. 62-75, https://doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v15i1.518 https://journals.ulab.edu.bd/index.php/crossings/article/view/518/vol15 

• “Applying Process Theory of Composition to Teach Writing in the First-Year Composition Classroom in Bangladesh”. Premier Critical Perspective, vol.6, no. 2, 2024. http://digitalarchives.puc.ac.bd:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/484/PU-Critical-Perspectives-Article5-merged_compressed.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 

• “My Voice Matters: Claiming My Space as an International Graduate Student/Teacher ”. Positionality Stories. Medium, 3 June 2024. https://medium.com/positionality-stories/my-voice-matters-claiming-my-space-as-an-international-graduate-student-teacher-b65ee6c3a879

• “Black Skin and White Brain: Internalized Racism in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”. Journal of Nazrul University, Vol. 9, no. 1-2. Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Trishal, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. July 2022-June 2023. https://jkkniu.edu.bd/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/8.-Jainob-Tabassum-Banu.pdf

• “The Tree Shouldn’t Be Happy: An Ecofeminist Reading of Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree”. Manababidya Gobeshonapatra, vol 7. Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Trishal, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. 2023.

• “Amelia is not the Second Sex: Carson McCullers’ Rejection of Conventional Femininity in The Ballad of the Sad Café”. Green University Review of Social Sciences, vol 8, no 2. Green University. (December 2022) August 2023. https://green.edu.bd/read-articles/8 

• “Now Celie Speaks: Reclaiming Selfhood in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple”. Researcher: A Multidisciplinary Journal, vol XVIII, no 2, March 2023, pp. 115-121.  https://jammuuniversity.ac.in/sites/default/files/inline-files/Researcher-2022-2.pdf

• “Let It All Out: Kamala Das’s Confessional Poetry”. CIU Journal, vol 4. Chittagong Independent University, Bangladesh. 2022. https://ciu.edu.bd/attachment-files/ciu-journal/V-4_I-1/5.Jainab%20Tabassum%20Banu%20Sonali.pdf 

• “Postcolonial Analysis of Wole Soyinka’s Poems”. Stamford Journal of English. Vol. 10. January 2022. 

• “Voicing the Subaltern: An Analysis of Nazrul’s Egalitarian Protest Poetry”. Green University Review of Social Sciences, vol 6. Green University. (June 2020) April 2022. https://green.edu.bd/read-articles/97 

• “Nazrul's Egalitarian Protest Poetry,” Nazrul Journal, Vol 1, no. 1. Nazrul Institute. August 2021. 

• “Kate’s Domestic Conquest: A Feminist Reading of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew”. Dialogics: A Research Journal of English Studies, Vol. 1. Department of English. Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University. May 2021.

• “Surrealism in Selected Poems of Jibanananda Das’s Banalata Sen”. Green University Review of Social Sciences, Vol. 05. January 2020. 

• “Power Shifts of the English Language in Postcolonial African Poetry”. Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, Vol. 10. September 2019. https://deh.ulab.edu.bd/sites/default/files/Banu.pdf 

• “Osomapto Attojiboni: Alochona-Somalochona”. In the Memory of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Premier University Chattogram, 2020. http://101.2.163.148:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/128 

Book Review (published in peer reviewed journal):

• “A Writer Reforms (the Teaching of Writing):Donald Murray and the Writing Process Movement, 1963-1987 by Michael J. Michaud”, Composition Studies, vol 52, no 2 (Fall 2024), pp. 171-174. https://compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/uploads//01/banu-review.pdf 

• “AI in Learning: Designing the Future: edited by H. Niemi, R. D. Pea, and Y. Lu, Cham, Switzerland, Springer, 2022, 344 pp., free. Open access. (eBook), $59.99, ISBN: 9783031096860”. Publisher web page: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-09687-7_1. Technical Communication Quarterly, vol 34, no. 1, pp. 145–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2024.2428400  

• “Community is the Way: Engaged Writing and Designing for Transformative Change by Aimée Knight”. Composition Studies, vol 50, no 3 (Fall 2022). 2023. pp. 178-181.  https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/banu.pdf

Textbook Contribution:

• Contributor (invited), Writing Critically, 4th ed.,Written and Edited by Lisa Arnold. North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA. (I contributed to the “AI and Writing” part in the book’s various sections).

Creative Works:

• Poem: “Solitude, Thy Name is Freedom”. North Dakota Quarterly (accepted)

• Poem: “This Land of Windchill and Snowstorms is not Mine”. Tales of Migration. University of Minnesota, Duluth. (under press)

• Poem: “My Grey Hair”. North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 91, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer 2024. University of Nebraska Press, p. 142. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/928285  

• Poems: “Self-Consolation”, “Becoming/ Unbecoming”, and “I will Disappear”. Metamorphosis: Where We are Going, Northern Eclecta, vol.18. North Dakota State University Press, Spring 2024, p. 51, 69, 156. 

Book Chapter:

“Songs on Bangabandhu”. Mujib The Immortal. A Publication of The Daily Sun. 2021. pp 163-166.

Area of Interests

Gender, Sexuality, Body, Disability, AI and Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Feminism, Contemporary Literature, Postcolonialism, Life writing.

Award & Prizes

• Innovation in Teaching Award. North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA. September 2024.

• Innovation in Teaching Award. North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA. April 2024.

• NeMLA GSC Travel Award 2024 for Presenting a Paper at the 55^th NeMLA convention, March 2024.

• The 2023 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. Department of English. North Dakota State University, May 2023.

• The Richard L. Johnson Scholarship, North Dakota State University for 2023-2024, May 2023.

• Magna cum Laude, MA in English, Department of English & Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, 2021 ULAB Convocation.

• Summa cum Laude, BA in English, Department of English & Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, 2016 ULAB Convocation.

• VC’s scholarship, Department of English & Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. Fall-2016

• Dean’s scholarship, Department of English & Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. Fall-2014

• VC’s scholarship, Department of English & Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. Spring-2014

Certification

• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Certification, January 2024-January 2027

• Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing, Fall 2024.

Conferences

• “Promoting writerly voice in the age of AI: Teaching Situation-based Email Writing with and against AI”. GSOLE  Conference. 6 February,  

• Roundtable: “Start of the Day Writing” activity in First-Year Writing Classes. Writing Program Activity Share roundtable. Department of English. North Dakota State University. 4 December 2024. 

• “Hustle Less and Listen More: Teaching Writerly Voice and Data Privacy with and Against ChatGPT in Writing”. TYCA Midwest 2024 Conference: Hustle and Flow. SchoolCraft College, Livonia, Michigan. 17-19 Oct 2024.

• “My Hair Lets Me Be Me’: Using Mathew A. Cherry’s Hair Love to Promote Self-Worth Among Black Children” under the panel “Culture and AI”. Red River Graduate Students Conference 2024: Blurred Boundaries: Composition, Culture and Literary Studies in the Visual-Digital Age. North Dakota State University. 17-18 May 2024. 

• “Disability, Gender and The Politics of Recognition: Using Feminist Disability Studies to Read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” under the panel “The Future of Feminist Disability Studies”. Red River Gender Studies Conference 2024: Feminist Visions for the Future. University of North Dakota. 20 April 2024. 

• “ChatGPT as a Pedagogical Tool in the Writing Classrooms”. NDSU Research Day. North Dakota State University. 10 April 2024

•  “What Does Katherina Mean?: Reinterpreting Katherina’s Last Monologue in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew” under the panel “Gender and Postmodern Literature”. Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. 12-13 April 2024

•  “Chat with it, Don’t Copy and Paste: Teaching Ethical Consideration of Using ChatGPT in a Writing Classroom” under the panel “AI Ethics”. MnWE 2024 Conference: New Visions for College Writing. Normandale College, Bloomington, Minnesota. 12-13 April 2024.

•  “ChatGPT: Replacement or Pedagogical Tool of Writing Teachers?” under the panel “AI and Language Classrooms”. NeMLA Convention 2024. Boston, MA. 7-10 March 2024

•  “Navigating the Digital Frontier: Harnessing the Potential of ChatGPT through Teacher Training and Professional Development”. “Writing, Thinking, and Learning with AI: Exploring Relationships of Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence”, The Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University and the SUNY Council on Writing (on zoom), 14 October 2023.

•  “Identity Narrative: Get Your Voice and Forget the Bias”. TYCAMW-2023 conference: Blank Slate. North Dakota State College for Sciences, Wahpeton, North Dakota, 13 October 2023.

• “The Tree Shouldn’t Be Happy: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree”. “The Children Are Our Future”: Climate Change, Ecocriticism, and Child Activism. (Re)Imagining Tomorrow: Agency and Possibility in Literature and Media for Children and Young Adults! (On zoom). University of British Columbia, Canada, 24 June 2023.

•  “Resisting Ovid’s Narrative of Medusa and Reinterpreting Her-Story from Cixous’s Perspective”. The Female Experience in Contemporary Feminist Literature. 5th Heidelberg Graduate Students Conference (on zoom), University of Heidelberg, 3 June 2023.

•  “Audience Awareness: A Tool to Bridge the Gap between Technical Writers and Non-Technical Readers”. “Effective Communication in the Digital Age”, 2^nd Technical Rhetoric Symposium. Held Virtually on Zoom, 3 June 2023.

• “Using Four Picture Books to Promote Self-Worth in Black Children in Post-BLM Period”. Art About Writing | Writing About Art. 2023 University of St. Thomas Graduate Art History, Museum Studies, and English Conference. University of St. Thomas, 28 April 2023. 

• “Claiming Our Space: Cyber Misogyny and Digital Feminist Activism in Bangladesh Context”. Asian Studies Conference IV: Gender, Communication and Development (Hybrid). South Asian Foundation for Academic Research-SAFAR, Kathmandu, Nepal, 22 April 2023.

• “Amelia is not the Second Sex: McCullers’s Rejection of Femininity in The Ballad of the Sad Café”. Literary Analysis Across Place and Time. Graduate Student Mini-Conference in Graduate Scholarship. North Dakota State University, November 2022.

• “A Feminist appraisal of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew”. Discursive Shakespeare: An International Conference on William Shakespeare. East Delta University, Chattogram, Bangladesh, 2019.

Invited Talks

• Table Lead. Spring 2025 Welcome Event. Sahnish Hall, Memorial Union, North Dakota State University. 8 January 2025. Role: Facilitating discussion among new graduate students. 

• “How to Write an SoP for Graduate Admission in the U. S. Universities (Humanities Program)”. Role: Facilitator. Virtual Workshop held on 5 September 2024 (BD time).

Literary Seminars

• “Internalized Racism as Depicted in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”. Monthly Literary Seminar. Department of English Language and Literature, Premier University, 2022.

• “Feminism in Shakespeare’s Play”. Webinar on Universal Shakespeare. Department of English Language and Literature, Premier University, Chattogram, Bangladesh, 2021.

• “Book Review of Bangabandhu’s The Unfinished Memoir”. Webinar on Bangabandhu. Prothom Alo Bandhusobha, 2020.

• “Jibanananda Das: A Surrealist Poet”. Monthly Literary Seminar. Department of English Language and Literature, Premier University, Chattogram, Bangladesh, 2019.

• “A Paradigm Shift in Power Position of English Language: Postcolonial Analysis of African English Poems” Monthly Literary Seminar. Department of English Language and Literature, Premier University, Chattogram, Bangladesh, 2018.

Professional Memberships

• 2024-2025       Member, Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE)

• 2024-Present  Cohort Member, Two-Year College Association (TYCA) Teaching Seminar.

• 2022-Present  Member, Two-Year College Association Midwest (TYCA Midwest).

• 2023-Present  Member, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 

• 2023-2024       Member, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA).