About Department of English

The Department of English is as old as the University of Dhaka: it opened when the University started functioning on July 1, 1921. C. L. Wren, a distinguished scholar who later became Professor of English at Oxford was appointed the first Head of the Department. After 1947 several teachers left the department and for some time there was a crisis. However later eminent teacher like Professor A.G. Stock joined as teaching faculty. The Department of English contributed immensely to the spread of education in the then East Bengal. It has also played its part in the education of women of this country. Leela Nag, a student of the Department, was the ...

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Message from Chairman

Zerin Alam, Ph.D.

Welcome to the Department of English! Established in 1921, ours is one of the 101-year-old founding departments in the Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka, determined to attain the highest standards in academic excellence. For more than a century, this department has had a formative influence in fostering and developing some of the brightest minds of Bangladesh. Our ...

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