Sarker Hasan Al Zayed is an academic, translator, and fiction writer. He is currently Associate Professor of English at the Independent University Bangladesh (IUB). Zayed received his PhD from the Department of English, SUNY University at Albany for his research on contemporary South Asian literature. He is the author of Allegories of Neoliberalism: Contemporary South Asian Fictions, Capital, and Utopia (NY: Routledge, 2023). Zayed’s translation of Ian Almond’s appraisal of Nirad C Chaudhury, নীরদ সি চৌধুরীর মন, was published by the University Press Limited (UPL) in 2020. His other academic works have appeared in journals such as South Asian Review, and Crossings, peer reviewed anthologies published by Lexington Books, Pencraft India, and Pearson Longman.