Md Nayem Chowdhury
Lecturer, Programme Coordinator
Md Nayem Chowdhury is a Lecturer in English and Programme Coordinator (BA Honours) in the Department of English at Prime University, Bangladesh. He holds an M.A. in English from Islamic University, Kushtia, and an M.A. in English Literary Studies (Thesis Track, ECGPA: 4.00/4.00) from Khulna University. His teaching experience includes English language, literature, academic writing, and English language pedagogy.
His research spans Environmental Humanities, Anthropocene Studies, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Ecolinguistics, English Language Teaching (ELT), Climate Fiction, Hydrofeminism, Slow Violence, and Digital Diaspora. He has received a competitive research grant from Khulna University and has presented research papers at national and international conferences on literature, environmental criticism, and language education.
Before joining Prime University, he worked as an Instructor for the British Council (YLE & IELTS Programme), an English Language Trainer and Course Coordinator under the Department of Social Services (SDTC), and Founder and Lead Instructor of Pioneers English Academy. Committed to research-informed teaching and interdisciplinary scholarship, he strives to promote critical inquiry, innovative pedagogy, and meaningful engagement with contemporary literary and linguistic studies.
Qualifications
Md Nayem Chowdhury is a Lecturer in English and Programme Coordinator in the Department of English at Prime University, Bangladesh. He holds an M.A. in English from Islamic University, Kushtia, and an M.A. in English Literary Studies (Thesis Track, ECGPA: 4.00/4.00) from Khulna University. His academic training combines literary studies, environmental humanities, and English language education with extensive experience in university teaching, curriculum development, and programme coordination.
Prior to joining Prime University, he served as an Instructor for the British Council (YLE & IELTS Programme), an English Language Trainer and Course Coordinator under the Department of Social Services (SDTC), and Founder and Lead Instructor of Pioneers English Academy.
His research interests include Environmental Humanities, Anthropocene Studies, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Ecolinguistics, English Language Teaching (ELT), Hydrofeminism, Climate Fiction, Slow Violence, Digital Diaspora, and Performance Studies. He has received a competitive research grant from Khulna University and has presented scholarly papers at national and international conferences on literature, environmental criticism, and language education.
He is committed to research-informed teaching, curriculum innovation, interdisciplinary scholarship, and fostering critical thinking through student-centred pedagogy.
Research Interests
Environmental Humanities; Anthropocene Studies; Postcolonial Ecocriticism; Ecolinguistics; English Language Teaching (ELT); Applied Linguistics; Climate Fiction; Hydrofeminism; Blue Humanities; Slow Violence; Digital Diaspora and Migration Studies; Posthumanism; Environmental Justice; Performance Studies; Contemporary South Asian Literature; Amitav Ghosh Studies.
Lecturer in English & Programme Coordinator, Department of English, Prime University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (May 2026–Present)
Instructor (British Council YLE & IELTS Programme), Rightsight Limited – British Council YLE & IELTS Centre, Khulna, Bangladesh (March 2025–August 2025)
Founder & Lead Instructor, Pioneers English Academy (2023–2025)
English Language Trainer & Course Coordinator, Department of Social Services (DSS), Skills Development Training Centre (SDTC), Kushtia, Bangladesh (January 2023–December 2024)
Private Tutor (English & Science) (2015–Present)
Drama & Theatre Practitioner (Applied Pedagogy) (2017–Present)
Hydrofeminism and Slow Violence: Healing Waters of Amitav Ghosh’s Riverine Worlds
Ecological Exodus: Mapping Climate Migration, Border Poetics, and Environmental Justice in Amitav Ghosh’s Postcolonial Imaginary
The Psyche and Ethics of Digital Diaspora: Migrant Narratives in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
Decolonizing English Pedagogy: Indigenous Literatures and Plurilingual Practices in Bangladesh
Plurilingual Ecologies and Decolonial Climate Imaginaries in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
The Role of Performing Arts in Enhancing Language Learning, Cultural Sensitivity, and Creativity in Bangladeshi Formal Education
Liberating ESL Learners from Memorization Stereotypes: Smart, Engaging, and Enjoyable Language Learning
Ontological Attrition: Anthropocene Aesthetics of Existential Dread in László Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance
Capitalist Omnicide and the Making of the Anthropocene: Colonial Extractivism and Multispecies Violence in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse
Arboreal Agency and the Limits of the Human: Ecological Consciousness in Richard Powers’s The Overstory
Sustaining Ecolinguistic Literacy in Secondary ELT: Evaluating Classroom Uptake in Bangladesh’s English Curriculum Reform
Haunted Ecologies: From Climate Anxiety to the Environmental Uncanny in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
The Oceanic Retaliation: Toxic Flows, Weaponised Straits, and the Metaphysic of Inertness: Reading Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace
Unremitting Displacement: Nostalgia and Alienation in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
Gendered Precarity through Pre-emptive Widowhood and the Biopolitics of Slow Violence in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
The Industrial Erasure of Consciousness: A Posthuman Study of Animal Commodification and Labour Exploitation in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Okja
Archive of Silence: Epistemic Erasure and Tidal Eco-Subaltern Memory in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Sylvan Bare Lives, Hydro-Colonialism, and the Deltaic Exception: Comparative Ecologies in Selected Texts by Alan Johnson and Amitav Ghosh with Global Extraction Horizons
Research Grant, Khulna University (2025–2026)
Project: Apocalyptic Condition of the Anthropocene: Existential Dread and Slow Violence in László Krasznahorkai’s Sátántangó and The Melancholy of Resistance (Principal Researcher, 2025–2026)
Research Grant, Khulna University (2025–2026)
Merit-Based Graduation Scholarship, Islamic University, Kushtia (2023–2024)
Talentpool Scholarship, Islamic University, Kushtia (2019–2020)
General Merit Scholarship, Islamic University, Kushtia (2020–2021)
General Merit Scholarship, Islamic University, Kushtia (2021–2022)
English Language Teaching (ELT)
English Literature
Environmental Humanities
Anthropocene Studies
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Ecolinguistics
Curriculum Development
Academic Writing
Research Methodology
Literary Theory and Criticism
Climate Fiction
Hydrofeminism
Posthumanism
Performance Studies
Digital Diaspora and Migration Studies
Student-Centred Pedagogy
Curriculum Design and Lesson Planning
Assessment and Evaluation
Programme Coordination
Higher Education Administration
IELTS and Cambridge YLE Instruction
Public Speaking and Academic Presentation
Conference Presentation
Scholarly Communication
Academic Leadership
MS Office
Google Workspace
Educational Technology
Digital Learning Platforms
Content Development
Video Editing
English (C2 – CEFR, Advanced Professional) Bengali (Native) Hindi (Conversational) Urdu (Conversational)