Imtiaz Habib, an eminent Shakespeare scholar, dies at 69
News Desk bdnews24.com
Published: 28 Aug 2018 12:35 PM BdST Updated: 28 Aug 2018 12:35 PM BdST
Professor Imtiaz Habib, an eminent scholar who taught a generation of students Shakespeare at home and abroad, has died in the United States. He was 69.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Imtiaz Habib, scholar, friend, father, gentleman,” the English Department of Virginia-based Old Dominion University where he was a teacher until his death, said on its Facebook page.
“I'm personally profoundly indebted to Professor Habib for the ways in which he sustained me during an inordinately difficult period of my life, while teaching me a great deal not only about literature but also about life and death at a time when I was a struggling undergrad at Dhaka University,” Azfar Hussain, now an associate professor of Grand Valley State University in Michigan, wrote on his Facebook page.
Unusually eloquent, boundlessly curious and engaged, and deeply committed to scholarship and students, Professor Habib was a professor of Early Modern English Literature and Postcolonial Theory and Literature at Old Dominion University.
The author of such works as Shakespeare’s Pluralistic Concepts of Character: A Study in Dramatic Anamorphism, Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period, and Black Lives in the English Archives 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible, and numerous scholarly essays on colonialism and race in the early modern period, Prof Habib called attention to the marginalised, the neglected, the invisible and their extraordinary roles in the history of humanity.
Prof Habib taught a generation of students Shakespeare, broadening the horizon of their engagement with his works at more levels than one, Hussain said.
His students will continue to remember him for his unforgettable lectures on Hamlet, for instance, according to Hussain.
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