Azfar Hussain
Azfar Hussain () is a Bangladeshi American theorist, critic, academic, bilingual writer, poet, and translator. He is an Associate Professor of Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies within the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and vice-president of the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) and honorary GCAS Professor of English, World Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies.Hussain has published, in both English and Bengali, hundreds of academic, popular, and creative pieces, including translations from non-western languages, and written on a wide range of topics from Native American poetics and politics to critiques of postmodern-poststructuralist-postcolonial theory to Marxist political economy to "third-world" literatures to globalization and imperialism to theories and practices of interdisciplinarity. He translated into Bengali the stories of Gabriel García Márquez and the poems of Stéphane Mallarmé, Vicente Aleixandre, and Roque Dalton, among others. He also translated into English the lyrics of Kabir and the poems of Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
Hussain is also an internationally known public speaker and a frequent subject of media interviews regarding Bangladeshi society, culture, and politics. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Ansa Rebi, Azfar Hussain, Ishtiaq Hussain, Jianhua Cao, Waheed Ullah, Haider Abbas, Safi Ullah, Jinxing ZhouGet access
Published in Atmosphere (2023)
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3by Azfar Hussain, Ishtiaq Hussain, Shaukat Ali, Waheed Ullah, Abolfazl Rezaei, Safi Ullah, Haider Abbas, Asima Manzoom, Jinxing Zhou, Jianhua CaoGet access
Published in Environmental Research Letters (2023)
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4by Azfar Hussain, Jianhua Cao, Shaukat Ali, Waheed Ullah, Sher Muhammad, Ishtiaq Hussain, Abolfazl Rezaei, Kalpana Hamal, Mobeen Akhtar, Haider Abbas, Xiuqin Wu, Jinxing ZhouGet access
Published in Ecological Indicators (2022)
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5by Nick Scott, S. Azfar Hussain, Rowan Martin-Hughes, Freya J. I. Fowkes, Cliff C. Kerr, Ruth Pearson, David J. Kedziora, Madhura Killedar, Robyn M. Stuart, David P. WilsonGet access
Published in Malaria Journal (2017)
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