Parallel to her studies at Jahangirnagar University, Samirah Tabassum was working as a freelance interpreter for U.S Embassy, Canadian High Commission, UNICEF, FAO, CARE US along with few other NGOs. Right after postgraduation, she joined as a Lecturer at the Department of English and Modern Languages, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT), Dhaka. She currently teaches in the BA program at the Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) and believes in contributing to its focus on education, research along with leading the campus activities.
School of Arts & Humanities
Master of Arts (MA) in Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University
Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Refugee Literature, Disability Studies, Comparative Literature
Projects:
- Rickshaw Art Archive (https://www.rickshawartarchive.org/) – worked as a Research Associate (launched in July 2020)
- A Case Study on Rana Plaza (University College Dublin / UCD Project Code: R14408) – worked as a Research Assistant (October 2017-December 2018)
Academic awards
- UGC, Bangladesh Government Merit Scholarship (2018)
- Jahangirnagar University Academic Scholarship (2014-2019)
- Bangladesh Government Academic Scholarship (Dhaka Board, 2011)
Tabassum, Samirah. “Aarar naam Arkaani: Exploring the Formation of Identity and Diasporic Consciousness in Rohingya Songs”. Comparative Media Arts Journal, no. 6 (2019).
Tabassum, Samirah. “What kind of education do we want?”. Young Observer, The Daily Observer, 30 November 2017.
Tabassum, Samirah. “Entertaining our kids with Bangla cartoons”. Young Observer, The Daily Observer, 21 September 2017.
Tabassum, Samirah. “Scoops of JU in seven”. Young Observer, The Daily Observer, 18 May 2017.
Tabassum, Samirah. “Into the never-ceasing fandom!”. Young Observer, The Daily Observer, 20 April 2017.
Exploring Formalism: A Comparative Reading of T.S Eliot’s and Jibanananda Das’ Conceptions of Poet – Presented at the XXII Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Macau SAR, China (July-August 2019)
Spacing Linguistic Cosmopolitanism in Bangladesh: Translocalism as an Alternative Paradigm – Presented at The XXI International Conference on “Revisiting Cosmopolitanism” jointly organized by Forum on Contemporary Theory and The International Lincoln Centre, Odisha, India (December 2018)
‘My heart’s calling, Oh my friend’: Locating the Diasporic Consciousness in Rohingya Songs – Presented at The International Conference on “Refugees in the Public Imagination: Discourse of (dis)location and (dis)placement”, jointly organized by ULAB and DU (December 2017)