Rate My Professor Raqib Chowdhury

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.