15 Facts About Azfar Hussain

Azfar Hussain is a Bangladeshi American theorist, critic, academic, bilingual writer, poet, and translator.

Azfar Hussain 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 and honorary GCAS Professor of English, World Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Azfar Hussain translated into Bengali the stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the poems of Stephane Mallarme, Vicente Aleixandre, and Roque Dalton, among others.

Azfar Hussain translated into English the lyrics of Kabir and the poems of Faiz Ahmad Faiz.

Azfar Hussain is an internationally known public speaker and a frequent subject of media interviews regarding Bangladeshi society, culture, and politics.

Azfar Hussain received his BA and MA degrees in English from the University of Dhaka.

Azfar Hussain obtained his second MA in English under a Fulbright fellowship and his doctorate in English and World Literature, both with distinction, from Washington State University.

Azfar Hussain worked as Postdoctoral Blackburn Fellow in the Department of English at Washington State University prior to joining in 2004 the university's faculty of the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, later renamed Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies.

Azfar Hussain taught English, world literature, ethnic studies, and cultural studies at Washington State University, Bowling Green State University, and Oklahoma State University; while, in Bangladesh, he taught English at Jahangirnagar University and North South University.

Azfar Hussain worked as Scholar-in-Residence and Summer Distinguished Professor of English and Humanities at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.

Azfar Hussain is an advisory editor of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge.

Azfar Hussain is an editorial board member of the Bengali journals Natun Diganta and Sarbajonakotha.

Azfar Hussain contributed numerous columns on political, social, and cultural issues to newspapers and periodicals in both Bengali and English.

Azfar Hussain offers a theory of struggle based on his formulation that the struggle for human emancipation involves four crucial sites of both oppression and opposition: land, labor, language, and the body.

Azfar Hussain was married in 2002, and has a daughter, Salma Hussain.