Firdous Azim is a professor of English at BRAC University, a literary critic, and a women's rights activist.
[11] In June 1994 she published “Lost in India: The Stories of Kim and Gora" in the journal of the Bangla Academy with Professor Kashinath Roy of the University of Dhaka.
[12][13] In 1996, Azim edited the, along with Niaz Zaman, Infinite Variety: Women in Society and Literature through The University Press Limited.
[27] In March 2019, she signed an open letter with a group of other activists accusing the government of Bangladesh of cowardly action for forcefully canceling a talk between Shahidul Alam and Arundhati Roy in Dhaka.
[32] Azim signed a petition with 41 other academics calling on the government to form a Supreme Judicial Council to investigate allegations against the Bangladesh Election Commission.
[35] Azim wrote the introduction of the 2022 book Inherited Memories: Third-Generation Perspective on Partition in the East by Zubaan.
[36] She is part of the research team for The Gendered Price of Precarity: Workplace Sexual Harassment and Young Women's Agency which is an ongoing project of The British Academy.