Center of Excellence in Higher Education
The First Private University in Bangladesh

Dr. Nazia Manzoor

Full Time Faculty

Assistant Professor & Chair

Ph.D. in English, University at Albany, State University of New York

M.A. in English, University at Albany, State University of New York

B.A. in English, East West University, Dhaka

Phone: +880-2-55668200 Ext: 2025

Email: nazia.manzoor@northsouth.edu

Office: NAC 1032 

Manzoor, Nazia, and Wen Liu. "Decolonizing Protest Suicide: Performing Life in Hong Kong." Reorienting Hong Kong’s Struggle: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism, edited by Wen Liu, JN Chien, Christina YZ Chung, Ellie Tse, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 

Manzoor, Nazia. “Sovereign Exceptions and Sexual Autonomy in Heinrich von Kleist’s Betrothal in San Domingo” in Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, vol. 14, 2023. 

Manzoor, Nazia. "Abu Ibrahimer Mrittu". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 February 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41331, accessed 29 February 2024.]

Manzoor, Nazia. "Jibon O Rajnoitik Bastobota". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 February 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41330, accessed 29 February 2024.]

Winner of the Outstanding Dissertation Award 2021, awarded by the Department of English, University at Albany

Awarded the 2021 Richard Thorns Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English, University at Albany

Awarded an academic distinction for the successful completion of the Ph.D. qualifying exams, Department of English, University at Albany

Recipient of the 2019-2020 StAR grant, The Postcolonial Labs—the University of Albany’s Strategic Allocation of Resources for the Humanities Lab Project. https://www.albany.edu/english/humanities-labs-project

Awarded the “Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award 2010”, Department of English, University at Albany

East West University Merit Scholarship for 3 consecutive years (90 credit hours starting from summer 2005-summer 2007) as a recognition for being in the top 5% of the undergraduate students of East West University.

Summa Cum Laude in August 2007 from East West University

Ph.D. in English, University at Albany, State University of New York

M. A. in English, University at Albany, State University of New York

B.A. in English, East West University  

Assistant Professor, Department of English and Modern Languages, North South University

Senior Lecturer, Department of English, East West University (August 2010 - April 2015) Editor, East West University Newsletter (May 2011- April 2015)  

Courses taught at NSU:

Eng 604: Postcolonialism: Theories and Text

Eng 446: Postcolonialism and 20th Century Criticism

Eng 441: Contemporary Fiction

Eng 351: Modernism to Postmodernism

Courses taught at UAlbany:

AENG 297: Postcolonial Literary Traditions

ANEG 240z: American Experiences—Immigration and Citizenship

AENG 270: Living Literature: Challenges in the 21st Century—Women of Color Feminist Writings on Slavery and Colonialism

Coordinator, DEML Discourse Series, (January 2023 to present)

Assistant Editor, Panini: NSU Studies in Language and Literature (March 2023 to present)

Guest lecture, “The ‘Matter’ of the Dead: Suicide, Sati, and Tagore’s Post/Humanism” at the University at Albany, State University of New York, 16 November, 2022.

Session Chair, “Gender, Performance, and Feminist Resistance: Voices from Bangladesh” at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, November 10-13, 2022.

Co-convener, “Ruptures and Resilience: English Studies in the Now”, organized by the Department of English and Modern Languages, 4-5 November, 2022

Panel Chair, “Race, Human, and the Genres of the Human” at NorthEast Modern Language Association Conference, 5-8 March 2020, Boston. 

Paper presentation titled “Life/Death of Muslim Bodies in Queer Studies” in a roundtable titled “Writing Bios: Biopolitics in 20th Century Literature and Beyond” at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, 5-8 March 2020, Boston. 

Paper presentation titled “The Representative Other” at a panel titled “She’s Teaching What: How Instructor Racializations Impact the Classroom” at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference, November 14-17, 2019, San Francisco

Paper presentation titled “Diversity in Pedagogy: Doing Race work as the Race Person” at a panel titled “The Linguistic Other in Academia: Exclusion and Linguicism Faced by Bilingual Scholars” at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference, November 14-17, 2019, San Francisco.

Conference Chair, 17th Annual UAlbany English Graduate Student Organization Conference, April 5-6, 2019, UAlbany. Organized the two-day graduate conference titled "Race: Embodying Academia". The event included two keynote addresses, three panels, one closing roundtable discussion and one special lecture. Conference URL: http://egsoalbany.weebly.com/conference.html

Coordinator, English 103: Intermediate Composition, North South University (January 2016 to December 2016). 

Biopolitics and Race, Genres of the Human, Postcolonial Theory and literature, Memory and Trauma Theory, Affect Theory, and Feminist Theory.