Shamsad Mortuza is an academic administrator, educator, poet, translator, and columnist. He is Professor of English at the University of Dhaka who served as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) from 2018- 2022. He attended the University of Arizona as a Fulbright scholar. He received his PhD in English from Birkbeck College, the University of London for his dissertation on The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry. In 2013 he went to UCLA as a senior Fulbright postdoctoral fellow. He has six books, and 30 articles and book chapters to his credit. He is the editor of Crossings: ULAB Journal of English Studies and Journal of Bangladesh National Museum. He writes a popular weekly column “Blowin’ in the Wind” for The Daily Star. He serves on the editorial board of the literary journal, Six Seasons Review.
