Rate My Professor Raqib Chowdhury

Dr Raqib Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Culture & Society within the Faculty of Education at Monash University, where he joined in 2008. Prior to this, he taught English Literature at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1997 to 2004, serving as Lecturer and then Assistant Professor. Chowdhury holds a Bachelor’s degree in English, a Master’s degree in English Literature, a Master’s degree in Education (TESOL), and a PhD from Monash University. His doctoral research investigated how vested interest groups, including universities and governments, construct and mobilise the category of the ‘international student’ in Australia. He is recognised as a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA) and has delivered seminars, professional development programs, and graduate research workshops in countries including China, Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Thailand. In 2025, he was invited to deliver a specialist doctoral and early career researcher course at Ghent University, Belgium, and a guest lecture at the University of Luxembourg. He is also recognised as an Indonesian Expert with the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre.

Chowdhury’s research critically examines the politics of language, education, and knowledge production in postcolonial and transnational contexts. His expertise encompasses critical ethnography, TESOL, languages education, sociolinguistics and identity studies, decolonial studies in education, bilingualism and multilingualism, education and social justice, international education and international students, and culture and pedagogy. Key publications include Desiring TESOL and International Education: Market Abuse and Exploitation (Multilingual Matters, 2014), The Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh: The Politics of Intervention and Control (Routledge, 2021), and the edited volume Engaging with Australasia: Comparative Research on ELT and English Teacher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Notable articles comprise 'The international education experience: identity formation and audibility through participation, adjustment, and resistance' (2020, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education) and 'Epistemic exclusion in higher education: navigating racialised gatekeeping in Australia' (2026, Whiteness and Education). He has received the Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s Social Inclusion Award (2010 winner), Vice-Chancellor’s Social Inclusion Commendation (2011), Dean’s Award for Programs that Enhance Learning (2012), Monash Education Dean’s Excellence Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (2023), Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Publication at the University of Dhaka (2003), President’s Commemorative Medal from Vietnam National University, and Rector’s Distinguished Scholar Award from the University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam. As Editor-in-Chief of the TESOL Bangladesh Journal (2021–2030), Chowdhury has served as a keynote speaker at international conferences and contributes as a Respect Adviser at Monash University.