Shehreen Ataur Khan


Shehreen Ataur Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Jagannath University, Dhaka. She completed an M.A. in Women and Gender Studies jointly from the Central European University, Budapest, and the University of Granada, Spain under the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. Her first M.A. was in English Literature from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

During her under-graduation, she represented Bangladesh in different youth leadership forums in Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Shehreen is a State Alumna and was an exchange student for the Student Leadership program at Oklahoma University. She has served as the Regional Focal Point for Asia of the Global Youth Coalition against Cancer, Nigeria for four years. Currently, along with her primary job in academia, Shehreen is volunteering as a research manager and publication lead at GenLab.

Her areas of interest are gender studies, cultural studies, media representation, and environmental justice.