Department of English

Dinalo Chakma is a second year PhD student at department of English. Before joining in the University of Florida, he served as a faculty in a public university of Bangladesh. He also worked as Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at University of Notre Dame, USA for an academic year in 2018. Belonging to one of the Indigenous communities in Bangladesh called Chakma, Dinalo’s academic interests sit on the intersections of Indigenous cultural resistance, decolonial approaches in archiving and environmental humanities. Currently, he is building a digital storytelling project that narrates the life of Dr. Manik Lal Dewan, first Chakma academician of Bangladesh and foregrounds his role in harnessing Chakma educational progress and Indigenous mobility in the mainstream society of Bangladesh. During his short span of teaching, he taught courses, to name some but not limited to, cultural studies, contemporary South Asian literature, modern American literature, academic composition courses etc.