Dr Azfar Hussain is a Bangladeshi American academic, bilingual writer, and public intellectual. He is currently Director of the Graduate Program in Social Innovation and Associate Professor of Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He is also Vice-President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) based in New York and GCAS Professor of English, World Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies. He taught English, world literature, and cultural studies at Washington State University, Bowling Green State University, and Oklahoma State University in the US. In addition to authoring or editing several books, Dr. Hussain has internationally published hundreds of academic, popular, and creative pieces. His latest book in Bengali is called Darshanakkhyan (Philosophical Narratives).