Fakrul Alam taught at the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) until his retirement in June, 2017. Currently, he is the Adviser, Department of English, East West University, Dhaka. He has authored, edited, co-edited, and translated several books on a wide range of subjects. Some notable works are: Jibanananda Das: Selected Poems (1999); South Asian Writers in English (Detroit,  2006); Imperial  Entanglements  and  Literature  in English (Dhaka, 2007), and Reading Literature in English from Bangladesh: Postcolonial Perspectives (Dhaka, 2021). He received the SAARC Literature Award in 2012 and 2023 and the Bangla Academy Prize for Literature in 2013.