Zaynul Abedin is a first-year DPhil student at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, studying early modern French and English travel narratives on India.

His doctoral dissertation investigates the extent to which medieval cultural remnants impacted on the making of the authorial self of the French and English travel writers who found themselves in British India between seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Before starting his DPhil at Oxford, he has spent over nine years as Lecturer and Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Dhaka, where he also took his BA (Honors) and MA degrees in English literature.

Alongside his work in the English department at the University of Dhaka, he has also done a brief stint in its Department of French Language and Culture and at Alliance Française de Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

His research is generously funded by the Clarendon Fund in partnership with the Besse Scholarship, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.