Netrokona, Bangladesh
Year | Degree/Certificate, Institution & Details |
2020 | CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language) Cambridge English Language Assessment [Centre: BD001] |
2016 – 2017 | MA in Literatures in English and Cultural Studies Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Savar GPA 3.68 on a scale of 4.00 (Merit Position: 2nd) [Exam held in 2018] |
2013-2016 | BA (Hons.) in English Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Savar GPA 3.68 on a scale of 4.00 (Merit Position: 2nd) [Exam held in 2017] |
2011-2012 | HSC in Science (Dhaka Board) Notre Dame College, Dhaka GPA 5.00 on a scale of 5.00 |
2009-2010 | SSC in Science (Dhaka Board) Dhanmondi Govt. Boys; School, Dhaka GPA 5.00 on a scale of 5.00 |
Year | Job Description |
08 May 2023 – Present | Assistant Professor Department of English Sheikh Hasina University, Netrokona, Bangladesh |
Jan 2020 – 07 May 2023 | Lecturer Department of English Sheikh Hasina University, Netrokona, Bangladesh |
May 2019 – Jan 2020 | Lecturer Department of English Green University of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Mar 2020 – Jun 2020 | Instructor of Communicative English PGD in ICT Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Year | Research Details |
July 2021 – Present | Principle investigator Centenary Research Grant, Sheikh Hasina University |
Oct 2019 – Oct 2020 | Research Associate |
Year | Publication Details |
Forthcoming | Caesar, G. B. and G.Son, G. B. (Forthcoming). Uncovering the socio-political metalanguage of Bangladeshi memes: A sociolinguistic study. Sociolinguistics of Bangladesh: Voices of the Unheard. Routledge: UK. |
2021 | G.Son, G. B. (2021). Migration memes and social gaze: An analysis of Facebook memes o the Rohingya community in Bangladesh. Social Transformations: Journal of the Global South, 9(2). |
2021 | G.Son, G. B. (2021). The Heteroglossic Rumi on New Media vis-à-vis Sufism. Darul Irfan Research Journal, 1(1), 30-43. |
2021 | Caesar, G. B. and G.Son, G. B. (2021). Ab/uses of Brechtian techniques in south Asian commercial films. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2021.1948650 |
2020 | G.Son, G. B. (2020). Treatment of caribbean colonial historical experience in Walcott and Brathwaite’s poems: Finding the long lost ‘root’ in the route. Green University Social Science Review, 5(1). |
2019 | G.Son, G. B. (2019). The commodification of bodily disgust in TVCs broadcast in Bangladesh: Manufacturing sense of disabilities by ‘enforcing normalcy.’ Bangladesh Cinema and Television Institute Journal, 9(2), 25-44. |
Year | Article & Conference Details |
June 2021
| G.Son, G. B. (2021, June 15-16). Violence towards female images on advertisements in Bangladesh: A psycho-cultural analysis [Paper presentation]. International Conference on Emerging Trends in the Arts and Humanities, University of the Punjab, Pakistan. (Virtual due to Covid-19) |
Nov 2020 | G.Son, G. B. (2020, November 19-20). Migration Memes & Social Gaze: An Analysis of Facebook Memes on Rohingya Community in Bangladesh. Tenth ACAS International Conference on Asian Studies, Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines. (Virtual due to Covid-19) |
Oct 2020 | G.Son, G. B. (2020, October 30). The Heteroglossic Rumi on New Media vis-à-vis Sufism. International Conference on Sufism, Perfected Humanity and Divine Communion, DIRI, Chattogram, Bangladesh. (Virtual due to Covid-19) |
Jul 2019 | G.Son, G. B. (2019, July 29-30). Comparing Select Texts of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Shahidul Zahir: Finding an Intermediary Ground between Magical Realism and South Asian Aesthetics. XII Congress of ICLA: International Conference on Comparative Literature, Macau, China. |
Jul 2019 | G.Son, G. B. (2019, July 29-30). Rap-Battle and Kavigan: The Structures of B-Rabbit and Papa Doc’s Rap Battle vis-à-vis Antony Firingi and Bhola Moira’s Battle in Verse. XII Congress of ICLA: International Conference on Comparative Literature, Macau, China |
March 2018 | G.Son, G. B. (2018, March 27-28). Treatment of Caribbean Colonial Historical Experience in Walcott and Brathwaite’s Poems: Finding the Long Lost ‘Root’ in the Route. ICLACS 2018: International Conference on Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Tokyo, Japan. (ISNI:0000000091950263, later edited & published in Green University Social Science Review, Vol 5, Issue 1). |
Life-time Member
Membership ID No.: 2821
BELTA (Bangladesh English Language Teachers Association)
Year | Award Details |
2020 | FIP (Federation of Indian Photography Honorary Mention, 1 st ABP Photography Competition & Exhibition 2020, Bangladesh |
2018 | Salon Bronze Medal in Second MM Salon of International Photography 2018, Bangladesh |
2017 | International Union of Photographers (IUP) Silver Medal in 4 th IUP International Photographic Exhibition 2017, China |
2017 | The Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique (FIAP) Honorary Mention Blue Ribbon from International Salon of thePhotography Art: Bucovina Mileniul III, Suceava, Romania |
2017 | The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Honorary Mention Blue Ribbon and Bangladesh Photography Society (BPS) Merit Medal from in MM International Salon of Photography, Bangladesh |
2017 | PC Perasto Honorary Mention Badge in International Salon of Photography: Canvas 2017, Montenegro |
2017 | The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Honorary Mention Blue Ribbon and Bangladesh Photography Society (BPS) Merit Medal from in MM International Salon of Photography, Bangladesh |
2016 | Grand Winner in Life in Metro: Still Photo Contest by School of Communication, Canadian University of Bangladesh (CUB), Bangladesh |
2016 | 2nd Prize in Bangladesh Inter-University Photography Exhibition (BIUPE) 2016 organized by AIUB Photography Club, Bangladesh |
2016 | Grand Winner in Life in Metro: Still Photo Contest by School of Communication, Canadian University of Bangladesh (CUB), Bangladesh |
2015 | Champion in Competent Communicator in English Week, Dept. of English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh |
2014 | Runner Up in Painting and Pottery for digital painting in English Week, Dept. of English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh |
2011 | Winner of “I’m Made in Bangladesh” Photo Contest by organized by Dhaka Tribune |
2011 | Accounting Alumni Association Best Student Performance Award 2011 for academic result in SSC Examination by Accounting Alumni Association, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
2015-2018 | My directed experimental short-film- In My End Is My Beginning exhibited in Cefalù Film Festival 2018, Italy; San Mauro Torinese International Film Festival 2018, Italy; Best Seconds Video Competition 2017, Switzerland; International Short and Independent Film Festival 2015, Bangladesh |
Miscellaneous | Over 50 acceptances and exhibitions of my photographs in several countries including Bangladesh, Italy, India, Romania, Singapore, China, Serbia, Montenegro and others |