We are honored to present Episode 21 of the Bangladesh Feminist Oral History Project, an initiative of the Bangladesh Feminist Archives dedicated to documenting the voices, struggles, and legacies of Bangladeshi feminists across generations.
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Nazia Manzoor, a scholar, educator, and editor whose work engages literature, political subjectivity, gender, violence, and the conditions under which certain lives are recognized as fully human.
Dr. Manzoor is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at North South University. Trained in postcolonial theory, feminist thought, and biopolitical frameworks, her scholarship explores questions of memory, trauma, race, embodiment, and the politics of the human in South Asian contexts. Alongside her academic work, she serves as Editor of Books and Literature at The Daily Star, where she helps shape public literary and cultural conversations in Bangladesh.
Her engagements move between classrooms, journals, and public writing. Whether teaching postcolonial literature, feminist studies, and contemporary fiction, or writing on gender, social injustice, and cultural politics, Dr. Manzoor’s work consistently foregrounds ethical responsibility, critical pedagogy, and the role of knowledge production in times of political strain.
Topics Discussed:
-Early intellectual and political formation
-Postcolonial theory, feminism, and the question of the human
-Biopolitics, violence, and political subjectivity
-Teaching literature and theory in Bangladesh
-Students, moral policing, and classroom tensions
-Public writing, editorial labor, and cultural responsibility
-Memory, testimony, and feminist ethics
-Knowledge, accountability, and future solidarities
About the Project:
The Bangladesh Feminist Oral History Project is a living archive of interviews with Bangladeshi feminists, activists, artists, organizers, and scholars, whose stories offer insight, courage, and memory across generations.
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