Faculty Details
Dr. Mir Nurul Islam
Dr. Mir Nurul Islam
Designation
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest/Specialisation
World Literature. South Asian literatures in English, Contemporary Art & Economics of Art and Culture, Representation of Consciousness in Fiction, Indigenous Environmental Literature, Medical Humanities, Narratives of Pain, Suffering and Vulnerability, Ecocriticism, Ecopoetics, Critical Thinking, Asian Cinemas, Contemporary American and Eastern European literature, Art and Science, Interdisciplinary relations between Philosophy & Poetry, Academic Writing.
Year of Joining at NU
September, 2018
Total Years of Teaching Experience:
9 years
Name and details of Ph.D. Degree awarded Institution
Department of English Literature, EFL University, Hyderabad, 2017.
Awards/Honours
DAAD Fellowship and funding TU Dresden, Germany for research at the Faculty of Language, Literature and Culture Sciences, TU Dresden (Germany), summer semester, 2016.- Funding for Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) Summer school, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2013.
- Maulana Azad National Fellowship, University Grants Commission, July 2010- July2015.
Best Peer-reviewed Publications (Best 05)
- Islam, Mir. Arteries of Pain: J. M. Coetzee’s Narratives of Discontent, Journal of Namibian Studies, 34 S1 (2023): 2923-2951. ISSN: 2197-5523.
- Islam, Mir. Unmasking Myths and Misconceptions: The Narrative of Pain in Literature. Neuro Quantology. April 2022. Issue 4. ISSN1303-5150.
- Islam, Mir. Contemplating Slowness: J. M. Coetzee’s Reflections on Literature, Philosophy, And Pain. Educational Administrative: Theory and Practice. 2024, 30(4), 4319-4325. ISSN: 2148-2403.
- Islam, Mir, Becoming and Being Mother: Navigating Pain, Love, and Care, Across Cultures and Literature. Journal of Re Attach Therapy and Development Diversities. E-ISSN: 2589-7799. 2023 October; 6(10s): 2082-2095.
- “Embodied Ecology: Traditional Performative Arts, Rituals, and Ecological Practices of the Santhal Community,” Postcolonial Indigenous Ecocriticism. Routledge by August 15, 2025. (Forthcoming).