Azfar Hussain

Azfar Hussain
Azfar Hussain at TSC, University of Dhaka
Native name	আজফার হোসেন
Born	Bangladesh
Residence	Michigan
Education	PhD (English and World Literature)
Alma mater	University of Dhaka, Washington State University
Occupation	Writer, Scholar, Teacher

Azfar Hussain (Bengali: আজফার হোসেন) is a Bangladeshi theorist, critic, academic, bilingual writer, poet, translator, and activist. He is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies/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. He 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. He also worked as Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. He is an advisory editor of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. He is also an editorial board member of the Bengali journals Natun Diganta and Sarbajonakotha.

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 Garcia Marquez 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.