Honourable Speakers

Dr. Nevin Farida is Professor and the current Chairperson of the Department of English, University of Dhaka. She has an MA in English Literature from Dhaka University and an MEd in TESOL from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She completed her PhD in Applied Linguistics and ELT from Warwick University, UK. Her areas of interest include Materials Development, Syllabus Design, Teaching Writing, the Interface between Literature and Language Teaching and Shakespeare Studies. She co-authored Making Connections: Responding to Literature (2004), a First-year student book of the Department of English and has co-edited another student book, Writing Essays with Ease (2016). In addition, she is also the co-editor of Tertiary Level Writing in English in Bangladesh: Tools and Approaches (2018), the final outcome of a series of books published under the British Council INSPIRE DEWS (International Network for Strategic Partnership in Research and Education, Department of English Writing Service) project. Currently, she is editing the Special Centennial Issue of the departmental Journal, Spectrum, the Departmental Newsletter English Matters, and a Centennial Series book on hundred years of the Department of English, University of Dhaka.