PROFILE:  Dr. Md. Rakibul Islam has been working as an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Law at Aligarh Muslim University Centre Murshidabad for more than 7 years. He has been teaching Legal Language to B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) students since 19th December 2015. Before joining this Centre, he has also worked as an Assistant Professor of English at Malappuram Centre of Aligarh Muslim University.
His area of specialization is postcolonial/diaspora literature, and his area of interest is Legal Language, African-American Literature, Canadian Literature, South Asian Literature, and Linguistics. Dr. Islam has published several research papers in various national and international journals and edited books. He has also attended webinars organized by Cambridge Assessment English and Oxford University Press on various academic issues such as teaching-learning and engaging-motivating students, etc.
He has co-edited three books: Diaspora Poetics in South Asian English Writings;
Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature; and War, Violence and Trauma Narratives in Literature. He worked as in-charge of Publication Committee at Murshidabad Centre. He is also working as a review member of an International journal, The Criterion: An International Journal in English.