CURRICULUM VITAE
MOHAMMAD A. QUAYUM (PhD, Flinders University)
Adjunct Professor CITE, School of Education and Teaching The University of South Australia Email: [email protected]
Mohammad A. Quayum is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Education and Teaching at the University of South Australia. He was a Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) from 2004-2020 – a career cut short by the current pandemic, as he chose to take early retirement from Malaysia and return to Adelaide, Australia to avoid health risks. During his service at IIUM he was Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences from 1 August 2017 to 31 December 2018, Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs from 1 September 2016 to 31 July 2017 and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature from July 2006 to June 2010. He was also a member of the Senate, the University’s highest academic body, for several years.
Quayum was a Visiting Professor of English and Asian Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University) in 2003-2004. His previous affiliations include University Putra Malaysia (1996-2003), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1993-96), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (1992-93) and University of Chittagong, Bangladesh (1979-88).
Quayum obtained his MA in English Literature (with First Class and Distinction) from Lakehead University, Canada, in 1984 and his PhD from Flinders University (South Australia), in 1991. He is the author, editor and translator of 33 books (5 more forthcoming in 2021/22) in the areas of American literature, South Asian literature, Southeast Asian literature and Translation, including Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2020), Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Orient Longman, 2017; with Md. Mahmudul Hasan), Twenty-two New Asian Short Stories (Silverfish Books, 2016), One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English (Marshall Cavendish, 2007, 2014), Beyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore (Bangla Academy, 2014), Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories (Silverfish Books, 2014), The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) (Brill, 2013), Imagined Communities Revisited: Critical Essays on Asia-Pacific Literatures and Cultures (IIUM Press, 2012; with a Foreword by Benedict Anderson), A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories (Marshall Cavendish, 2010), Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature (Singapore National Library Board in partnership with the Singapore Arts Council, 2009), Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets,
Novelists and Dramatists (Peter Lang UK, 2007), Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism (Peter Lang USA, 2004), The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia (Penguin Books, 2002), Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English 1940s-1990s (IIUM Press, 2001, 2003), Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader (University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002; with Peter Wicks of the University of Southern Queensland), Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader (Pearson Malaysia, 2001; with Peter Wicks of the University of Southern Queensland), Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work (B.R. Publishing India, 2000) and In Blue Silk Girdle: Stories from Malaysia and Singapore (University Putra Malaysia Press, 1998).
Quayum is also the author of more than eighty articles in distinguished peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, South Asia Research, World Literature Written in English and Wasafiri in the UK; Asian Studies Review, Kunapipi, New Literatures Review, CRNLE Journal, Quodlibet: The Australian Journal of Trans-national Writing and Transnational Literature in Australia; Crossroads: Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, South Asian Review, Journal of South Asian Literature, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, MELUS, Saul Bellow Journal, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Notes on Contemporary Literature, Journal of Transnational American Studies and American Studies International in the USA; Postcolonial Text in Canada; New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies in New Zealand; English Studies in Africa in South Africa; Sun Yat- sen Journal of Humanities in Taiwan; Journal of Human Values, Indian Journal of American Studies, Literature and Criticism, The Aligarh Critical Miscellany, The Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, The Visva-bharati Quarterly and CIEFL Bulletin in India.
Quayum’s books have been reviewed in American Studies International (USA), Ariel (Canada), Asiatic (Malaysia), Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), Chaos (Bangladesh), Dialog (Panjab University, India), Diliman Humanities (Philippines), Indian Journal of Genders Studies (India), Intellectual Discourse (Malaysia), Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK), Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies (USA/India), Journal of Postcolonial Writing (UK), Journal of the School of Languages (JNU, India), Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies (Malaysia), Kitaab (Singapore), Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, RELC Journal (Singapore), RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Association, Australia), South Asian History and Culture (UK), South Asian Review (USA), Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities (Taiwan), The Book Review (India), Transnational Literature (Australia), World Literature Written in English (UK), and in many magazines and newspapers in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Singapore.
Quayum was a recipient of the USIS Regionalisation Fellowship in 1995; Flinders University Visiting Fellowship in 1996; IRPA Research Grant from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia in 2000 and 2002; Visiting Professorship at Flinders University in 2009; Senior Research Fellowship at the Singapore Management University in 2009 and 2010; Visiting Professorship at Jadavpur University, India in 2016; Visiting Professorship at the University of South
2 Australia in 2018; and Visiting Professorship at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh in 2019. He received the Teaching Excellence Award at University Putra Malaysia in 1997 and 1998, and the Quality Research Award at the International Islamic University Malaysia in 2006, 2007 and 2008 (at the Faculty Level; three years consecutively). He was co-editor of the prestigious literary journal World Literature Written in English for eight years (1993-2000; published by the Oxford University Press, Singapore), and is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes (indexed in Web of Science and Scopus). He is on the advisory board of several leading journals in his field: Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, UK; ISI indexed), Transnational Literature (Australia; ERA indexed), Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (USA; WoS indexed), Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies (USA), Literature Today (India), The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (India), and The Rupkatha Journal of the Interdisciplinary Studies of the Humanities (India; Scopus indexed). His research interests range from 19th and 20th century American literature to contemporary Asian literature, with special focus on Indian literature, Bengali literature and Malaysian-Singaporean literature.
EDUCATION
PhD, English and American Literature, Flinders University, Australia, 1991
MA (with First Class and Distinction), English, Lakehead University, Canada, 1984
MA, English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1979
BA (Hons.), English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977
DOCTORAL THESIS: “Saul Bellow in the Emerson-Whitman Tradition: A Study of His Later Novels in the Light of American Transcendentalism”
THESIS EXAMINERS 1. Professor Daniel Walden, Pennsylvania State University, USA 2. Professor Leila Goldman, Michigan State University, USA 3. Professor Gloria Cronin, Brigham Young University, USA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current Positions (Honorary)
Adjunct Professor, CITE, School of Education and Teaching, The University of South Australia (2018-)
3 Honorary Professor, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, 2011-
Other Honorary Positions
Founding Editor, Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes, (indexed in Elsevier’s Scopus and Web of Science), 2007-
Advisory Board Member, Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities (Malaysia; Scopus and WoS indexed), 2018-
Advisory Board Member, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (USA; WoS indexed), 2018-
Advisory Board Member, Literature Today (India), 2010-
Advisory Board Member, Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies (USA), 2009-
Advisory Board Member, Transnational Literature (Australia; ERA indexed), 2007-
Advisory Board Member, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, UK; ISI indexed), 2005-
Previous Positions (Full-time)
Professor of English Language and Literature (Special Grade), International Islamic University Malaysia, May 2004-August 2020
Visiting Professor, English and Asian Studies, the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University), August 2003 – May 2004
Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, University Putra Malaysia, November 2001 – August 2003
Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, University Putra Malaysia, March 1997 – November 2001
Lecturer, Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, University Putra Malaysia, November 1996 – March 1997
Lecturer, Division of Literature and Drama, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, June 1993 – June 1996
4 Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 1992 – June 1993
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, May 1985 – September 1988
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, July 1979 – May 1988
Previous Honorary Positions
Editor-in-Chief, Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes, (indexed in Elsevier’s Scopus and Web of Science), 2007-2020
Editorial Board Member, The Literary Encyclopaedia (UK), 2015-2016
Advisory Board Member, Diliman Humanities (Philippines), 2007-2017
Editor-in-Chief, Kulliyyah (Faculty) Research Bulletin (Malaysia), 2006-2013, 2013- 2015
Co-editor, World Literature Written in English (WLWE; published by Oxford University Press, Singapore), 1993-2000
Previous Part-time Positions
Tutor, Flinders University, South Australia, January 1991 – July 1991
Teaching Assistant, Lakehead University, Canada, August 1982 – May 1984
Lecturer, Notre Dame College, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 1978 – July 1979
PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Dean, Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, IIUM, 2017-2018
Deputy Dean (Academic Affairs), Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, IIUM, 2016-2017
Senate Member, International Islamic University Malaysia, 2010-2012, 2017-2018
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Consultant, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (UK), 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020
Consultant, Ariel (Canada), 2016
External Evaluator of the Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing (ISI indexed) on Asian-Australian Literature, 2016
Consultant, Kemanusiaan (University Science Malaysia Journal), 2016, 2018
PhD Thesis Examiner, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 2016
Master’s Thesis Examiner, Monash University, Australia, 2016
PhD Thesis Examiner, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 2015
External Evaluator of Application for Promotion to Associate Professor (Translation Studies), University of Science Malaysia, 2014
External Evaluator of Application for Promotion to Associate Professor (English), University of Science Malaysia, 2014
Manuscript Evaluator, University of Sabah Malaysia Press, 2014
Consultant, AFFILLA: Journal of Women and Social Work (USA), 2013
Consultant, Tamkang Review (Taiwan), 2013
PhD Thesis Examiner, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 2012
External Evaluator of Application for Promotion to Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2011
PhD Thesis Examiner, University of South Australia, 2011 (Creative Writing)
Consultant, Insights (Da’wah Academy Journal, IIUI, Pakistan), 2011
Consultant, South Asian Review (USA), 2011
Consultant, Transnational Literature (Australia), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Consultant, Intellectual Discourse (Malaysia), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
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Consultant, Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK), 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
Head, Department of English Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia, July 2006-June 2010
PhD Thesis Examiner, Monash University, Australia, 2010 (Creative Writing)
External Evaluator of Application for Promotion to Professor, University of Hong Kong, 2010
External Evaluator of Application for Promotion to Associate Professor, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 2010
External Evaluator of Application for Promotion to Associate Professor, Royal Malaysian Military University, 2010
Advisor, Asia-Pacific Literature Conference, IIUM, 2009
Manuscript Evaluator, Honk Kong University Press, 2009
PhD Thesis Examiner, Curtin University of Technology, Australia, 2009
Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief, Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes—
Editor, Kulliyyah Research Bulletin, IIUM, December 2005-2009
English Editor, Journal of Islam in Asia, IIUM, 2007–2009
Language Editor, Intellectual Discourse, IIUM, 2007
Member of Advisory Board, Centre for the International Study of Literatures in English, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2003-
Advisor, English and Asia Conference, DELL, IIUM, November 2008
Chair, One-day Forum on Malaysian Literature, DELL, IIUM, February 2009
PhD Thesis Examiner, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), 2008
Chair, One-day Seminar on Malaysian Postcolonial Literature, IIUM, 2007
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Honours Thesis Examiner, Monash University (Malaysia campus), 2007
PhD Thesis Examiner, National University of Singapore, 2005
Advisor, Citigroup KL International Literary Festival, 2004
Member of Advisory Board, World Literature Written in English (UK), 2004-2005
PhD Thesis Examiner, Flinders University of South Australia, 2003
Co-editor, World Literature Written in English (Oxford UP, Singapore), 1993-2000
ACADEMIC HONOURS/AWARDS/RESEARCH GRANTS
Research Funding from Hayrat Foundation to Study Said Nursi’s Risalae-I Nur, Turkey, 2018-2020
Visiting Professor, University of South Australia, 2018
Visiting Professor, Jadavpur University, India, 2016
Nominated for Malaysian Merdeka (Independence Day) Award, 2016
Best Journal Award (Asiatic), IIUM, 2015
Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), MOHE, National-Government, 2014-16 (Co-researcher)
Research Endowment Grant (B), IIUM, National-Government, 2014 (Principal Researcher)
IRRIE Research Exhibition, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Gold Medal (1), Silver Medal (1), 2012
IRRIE Research Exhibition, IIUM, Silver Medallist, 2010
Research Endowment Grant (A), IIUM, National-Government, 2011 (Principal Researcher)
8 Research Endowment Grant (A), IIUM, National-Government, 2010 (Principal Researcher)
Malaysian Literature and Culture Research Unit, IIUM, National-Government, 2010- 2013 (Principal Researcher)
Singapore Management University Research Fund, Overseas, 2010 (Principal Researcher)
Research Endowment Grant (B), IIUM, National-Government, 2009 (Principal researcher)
Visiting Professor, Flinders University, Australia, May-July 2009
Best Library Partner Award, Central Library, IIUM, 2008
Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), IIUM, 2008
Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), IIUM, 2007
Research Endowment Grant (B), IIUM, National-Government, 2006 (Principal researcher)
Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), International Islamic University Malaysia, 2006
Visiting Professorship in English and Asian Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2003-2004
IRPA Research Grant, Malaysian Government, 2002 (Co-researcher)
IRPA Research Grant, Malaysian Government, 2000 (Principal Researcher)
UPM Short-term Research Grant, 1997, 1998
Teaching Excellence Award, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), 1997, 1998
Visiting Fellowship, Flinders University of South Australia, 1996
USIS Regionalisation Fellowship, 1995
Flinders University Postgraduate Research Scholarship, 1986-1990
Lakehead University Special Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship, 1982-1984
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Merit Scholarship, University of Dhaka, 1973-1979
PUBLICATIONS a. Books (Authored)
1. Mohammad A. Quayum. Beyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. Dhaka: Bangla Academy (The Bangladesh Literary Academy), 2014 (175 pages; ISBN 984-07-5203-0)
2. Mohammad A. Quayum. One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English. Kuala Lumpur: Marshall Cavendish, 2007 (341 pages; ISBN 13: 978983-3846-41-5). Revised edition, Marshall Cavendish Singapore, 2014
3. Mohammad A. Quayum. Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism. New York: Peter Lang, 2004 (288 pages; ISBN 0-8204-3652-6)
4. Nor Faridah A. Manaf and Mohammad A. Quayum. Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English 1940s-1990s. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2003 (486 pages; ISBN 983-9727-38-9)
5. Mohammad A. Quayum and Rosli Talif. Dictionary of Literary Terms. Revised Edition. Kuala Lumpur: Prentice-Hall, 2000 (343 pages; ISBN 983-9236-51-2)
6. Mohammad A. Quayum and Rosli Talif. Dictionary of Literary Terms. Kuala Lumpur: Prentice-Hall, 1999 (265 pages; ISBN 983-9236-41-5)
7. Mohammad A. Quayum and Rosli Talif. A Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 1997 (82 pages; ISBN 983- 9319-17-5)
Books (Translated)
8. Mohammad A. Quayum and S. Nahleen, trans. Atiqur Rahman: Selected Poems. Dhaka: Bangla Proksh, 2017 (72 pages; ISBN 978-9-8492677-3-7)
9. Niaz Zaman and Mohammad A. Quayum, trans. and introduced. The Revolutionary (Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Kuhelika). Dhaka: Nymphea Press, 2016 (175 pages; ISBN 978-984-92297-1-1)
10 10. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed., trans. and introduced. Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2014 (256 pages; ISBN 978-983-3221-48-6)
11. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed., trans. and introduced. The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013 (240 pages; ISBN 13: 9789004255852) http://www.brill.com/essential- rokeya.
12. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed., trans. and introduced. Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories. New Delhi: Macmillan, 2011 (216 pages; ISBN 023-033- 277-3)
Books (Edited)
13. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020 (286 pages; ISBN 10: 15275-4929-1; 13: 978-1-5275-4929-6)
14. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance. UK: Routledge, 2020 (244 pages; ISBN 10: 0367218720, ISBN 13: 9780367218720)
15. Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan, ed. and introduced. A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. India: Orient Longman (Orient Blackswan), 2016. http://www.orientblackswan.com/ BookDescription?isbn=978-93-86296-00-9&id=19&t=c
16. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2016 (282 pages; ISBN 987-983-3221-52-3)
17. Mohammad A. Quayum and Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim, eds. Religion, Culture, Society: Readings in Humanities and Revealed Knowledge. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2017
18. Nor Faridah A. Manaf and Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Imagined Communities Revisited: Critical Essays on Asia-Pacific Literatures and Cultures. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2012 (246pages; ISBN 978-967-418- 215-1) (with Foreword by Benedict Anderson)
19. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2011 (316 pages; 978-81- 250-4319-5)
11 20. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2010 (330pages; ISBN 13: 978-981-4302-71-5)
21. Mohammad A. Quayum and Wong Phui Nam, ed. Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature. Singapore: National Library Board in partnership with Singapore Arts Council, 2009 (267 pages; ISBN 978- 981-083910-9)
22. Mohammad A. Quayum and Nor Faridah A. Manaf, ed. Writing a Nation: Essays on Malaysian Literature. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2008 (305 pages; ISBN 978983-3855-94-0)
23. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets, Novelists and Dramatists. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007 (305 pages; ISBN 978-3-03911-061-2)
24. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Chuah Guat Eng: The Old House and Other Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Holograms, 2007 (160 pages; ISBN 987-983-43778-0-9)
25. Mohammad A. Quayum et al, ed. Petals of Hibiscus: A Representative Anthology of Malaysian Literature in English. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2003 (Chief Editor; 345 pages; ISBN 983-74-3045-1)
26. Dina Zaman and Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Silverfish New Writing 3. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books (in association with the Australian High Commission, KL), 2003 (208 pages; ISBN 983-40816-5-0)
27. Rosli Talif and Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Diverse Voices 2. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2003 (337 pages)
28. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, ed. Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002 (447 pages; ISBN 983-2373-50-6)
29. Dipika Mukherjee, Kirpal Singh and Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia. Penguin Books, 2002 (240 pages; ISBN 0-14-302812-X)
30. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2001 (338 pages; ISBN 98374-1956-3)
12 31. Chan Swee Heng, Mohammad A. Quayum and Rosli Talif, ed. Diverse Voices: Readings in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2000 (248 pages; ISBN 983-9319-84-1)
32. Mohammad A. Quayum and Sukhbir Singh, ed. Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. India: B.R. Publishing, 2000 (594 pages; ISBN 81-7646-167-9)
33. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. In Blue Silk Girdle: Stories from Malaysia and Singapore. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 1998 (224 pages; ISBN 983-9319- 450)
Forthcoming Books Authored
34. Mohammad A. Quayum, The Autobiography of an Unknown Muslim
Edited
35. Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan, eds. Bangladeshi Literature in English: A Critical Companion. Dhaka: The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2020 (forthcoming)
36. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Rabindranath Tagore: Ideas and Experiments on Education. London, New York: Routledge, 2021
37. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Reading Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Anthology. Singapore, Leiden: Springer, 2021
Translated
38. Mohammad A. Quayum, trans. Sufia Kamal’s Selected Works. India: Orient Longman, 2022
d. Journal Editing
Edited 24 issue of Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature (An internal journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes) as the Journal’s Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief (2007-2020)
Journal Special Issues
13 1. Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan, eds. “Thrice Born Tradition: Bangladeshi Literature in English.” Special Issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Taylor and Francis), forthcoming in 2022
2. Mohammad A. Quayum and Grace V.S. Chin, eds. “The Postcolonial Millennium: New Directions in Malaysian literature in English.” Special Issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Taylor and Francis), forthcoming in 2021
3. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. “To Honor the Poet: A Festschrift for Shirley Geok- lin Lim.” The Journal of Transnational American Studies (Stanford University and UC Santa Barbara), 10.2 (Winter 2019). https://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas/10/2
4. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. “Special Issue on the Poetry and Poetics of Dennis Haskell.” Asiatic 13.2 (December 2019). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/54
5. Mohammad A. Quayum and Andrew Hock Soon Ng, eds. “Special Issue on Twenty-First Century Malaysian Literature.” Asiatic 12.2 (December 2018). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/51
6. Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan, eds. “Special Issue on Bangladeshi Writing in English.” Asiatic 12.1 (June 2018). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/49
7. Mohammad A. Quayum and Susan Philip, eds. “Special Issue on South Asian Drama/Theatre.” Asiatic 11.2 (December 2017). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/47
8. Jasbir Jain and Mohammad A. Quayum, eds. “Special Issue on South Asian Diaspora.” Asiatic 11.1 (June 2017). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/39
9. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. “Special Issue on South Asian Women’s Writing.” Asiatic 10.1 (June 2016). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/34
10. Chingyen Yang Mayer and Mohammad A. Quayum, eds. “Narratives of ‘Unstable Homes’ in Asian American Literature.” Asiatic 9.1 (June 2015). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/30
11. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. “Special Issue on Shirley Geok-lin Lim.” Asiatic 8.1 (June 2014). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/28
12. Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. “Special Issue on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Edwin Thumboo.” Asiatic 7.2 (December 2013). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/issue/view/27
14 e. Academic Module
Poetry in English. IDEAL: University Putra Malaysia, 1998. (For undergraduate students of the Distance Learning Programme, UPM, Malaysia) f. Journal Articles/Book Chapters/Encyclopaedia Entries/Translated Work in Refereed Journals
(Unless otherwise stated, I am the sole author of all the items listed below. Many of these items can be accessed at the following web address: https://iium.academia.edu/MAQuayum)
2020
“Introduction.” Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. London, New Delhi and New York: Routledge, 2020. 1-30.
“Imagining ‘One World’: Rabindranath Tagore’s Critique of Nationalism. Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. UK, India: Routledge, 2020. 65-85.
“Introduction.” Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 1-11
“Self-refashioning a Plural Society: Dialogism and Syncretism in Malaysian Post- colonial Literature.” Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 57-78
“Lloyd Fernando: A Tribute.” Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 116-125
“Traversing Borders, Negotiating Identity: Portrayal of the Malaysian-Indian Diaspora in K.S. Maniam’s The Return.” Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 126-144
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“To Honour the Poet: A Festschrift for Shirley Geok-lin Lim.” The Journal of Transnational American Studies 10.2 (Winter 2019): 10-20. https://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas/10/2 (Scopus indexed)
“Honouring Dennis Haskell: A Poet and an Amigo of Asiatic and Asian Literature.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 13.2 (December 2019): 1-5. https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1658/948 (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“Malaysian Literature and its Future: An Interview with Muhammad Haji Salleh.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 13.1 (June 2019): 119-41. https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1488 (Scopus and WoS indexed)
2018
“Malaysian Literature and Beyond.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 12.2 (2018): 1-5. https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1317 (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“Randa Abdel-Fattah in Conversation.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 12.2 (2018): 192-200 (with Nadira Brioua). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1342/852 (Scopus and WoS indexed)
Rev. of Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Leadership Dilemma. Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 12.2 (2018): 201-205. https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1344/853 (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“In All Seriousness: Humour in Adibah Amin’s As I Was Passing and As I Was Passing II.” Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities 25.2 (2018): 23- 47. ISSN 1394-9330 (with Farah Akmar and Wan Madiha). http://web.usm.my/kajh/vol25_2_2018/kajh25022018_02.pdf (Scopus and WoS indexed)
16 “Interview with Umm Zakiyyah.” Writers in Conversation (Australia) 5.2 (2018): 1-5. ISSN 2203-4293 (with Nadira Brioua). https://journals.flinders.edu.au/index.php/wic/article/view/31/41
“Introducing Bangladeshi Writing in English: Emergence to the Present.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 12.1 (2018): 1-8 (with Md. Mahmudul Hasan). https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1205/794 (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“Negotiating Muslim Women’s Rights and Identity in American Diaspora Space: An Islamic Feminist Study of Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf.” Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities 25.1 (2018): 43-67 (with Suraiya Sulaiman and N.F. Abdul Manaf). http://web.usm.my/kajh/vol25_1_2018/kajh25012018_03.pdf (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, IIUM: A successful Story of Integration of Islamic and Human Sciences.” International Journal of Muslim World Studies xx (2018): 1-20. ISSN 0127-922 (with Rahmah Ahmad Osman)
2017
“War, Violence and Rabindranath Tagore’s Quest for World Peace.” Transnational Literature (Australia) 9.2 (May 2017). http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/37224/War_Violenc e.pdf?sequence=1 (ERA-indexed)
“Revisiting South Asian Diaspora Literature.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 11.1 (2017): 1-3. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1014/739 (Scopus and WoS indexed indexed)
“The Apprentice Years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s First Interview.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 11.1 (2017): 229-43. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/974/706 (Scopus and WoS indexed)
2016
“Education for Tomorrow: The Vision of Rabindranath Tagore.” Asian Studies Review (Taylor and Francis) 40.1 (2016): 1-16.
17 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10357823.2015.1125441 (ISI indexed)
“Gender and Education: The Vision and Activism of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.” Journal of Human Values (Sage) 22.2 (April, 2016): 139-50. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0971685815627946 (Scopus indexed)
“Asian Englishes: Some Reflections.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 10.2 (December 2016): 1-4. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“Celebrating a Decade of Asiatic.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 10.1 (June 2016): 1-3. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“Imagining the Enemy: Adversarial Roles in Rabindranath Tagore’s Short Stories.” The Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 8.4 (2016): 70-81. (December 2016). http://rupkatha.com/V8/n4/v8n409.pdf (Scopus indexed)
“Introduction.” A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sahawat Hossain. Eds. Mohammad A. Quayum and Md Mahmudul Hasan. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2016. viii-xxiv
“Inspired by the Bengal Renaissance: Rokeya’s Role in the Education and Emancipation of Bengali (Muslim) Women.” A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Eds. Mohammad A. Quayum and Md Mahmudul Hasan. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2016. 45-65
“Crossing Borders: Hindu Muslim Relations in the Works of Rabindranath Tagore and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.” A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Eds. Mohammad A. Quayum and Md Mahmudul Hasan. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2016. 237-57
“Introduction.” Twenty-two New Asian Short Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2016. v-xviii
2015
“Hindu-Muslim Relations in the Work of Rabindranath Tagore and Rokeya Sakhawat
18 Hossain.” South Asia Research (Sage) 35.2 (July 2015): 177-94. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0262728015581288 (Scopus indexed)
“Editor’s Column.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 9.1 (2015):1-2. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic (Scopus and WoS indexed)
2014
“Celebrating a ‘Neo-cosmopolitan Globaletic Writer.’” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 8.1 (2014): 1-7. https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/448/419 (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“Humour in Rabindranath Tagore’s Selected Early Short Stories: A Freudian Reading.” Transnational Literature (Australia) 7.1. Online.) http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/jspui/bitstream/2328/35073/1/Humour_in_Rabindran ath _Tagore.pdf (ERA indexed)
“Rabindranath Tagore: A Biographical Essay.” Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. Ed. and trans. Mohammad A. Quayum. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2014. 9-23
“Introduction.” Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. Ed. and trans. Mohammad A. Quayum. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2014. 24-51
2013
“Two Asian Dreamers, Doers.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 7.2 (2013): 1-6. https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/349/330 (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: A Biographical Essay.” The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Ed. and trans. Mohammad A. Quayum. Boston, Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2013. XV-XXXII
“Introduction.” The Essential Rokeya: Selected Workd of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (18801932). Ed. and trans. Mohammad A. Quayum. Boston, Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2013. 1-17
2012
19 “Introduction.” Green is the Colour. By Lloyd Fernando. Singapore: Epigram Books, 2012. VII-XXIV
“Home.” Translation of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s “Griha.” Transnational Literature (Australia) 5.1 (November 2012). Online. http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/jspui/bitstream/2328/26435/1/Home.pdf (ERA indexed)
“Nurse Nelly.” Translation of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s “Nurse Nelly.” Transnational Literature (Australia) 5.1 (November 2012) http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/jspui/bitstream/2328/26436/1/Nurse_Nelly.pdf (ERA indexed)
“Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.” Literary Encyclopaedia (UK). Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd. London: The Literary Dictionary Company. Online. http://litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13179
“Editorial.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 6.2 (2012): 1-4. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“Editorial.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 6.1 (2012): 1-3. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic (Scopus and WoS indexed)
2011
“Introducing Huzir Sulaiman: A Malaysian Playwright.” Kunapipi (University of Wollongong, Australia) XXXII.1-2: 45-60. https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol32/iss1/5/
“Editorial.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 5.2 (2011): 1-3. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic (Scopus and WoS-indexed)
“Editor’s Introduction.” Imagined Communities Revisited: Critical Essays on Asia-Pacific Literatures and Cultures. Ed. Nor Faridah A. Manaf and Mohammad A. Quayum. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2011. XI-XV
“Woman’s Downfall.” Translation of Rokeya Shakawat Hossain’s “Istrijatir Abanati.” Transnational Literature 4.1 (November 2011). Online.
20 http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/jspui/bitstream/2328/25491/1/Womans_Downfall . pdf (ERA-indexed)
“Introduction.” The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. New Delhi: Orient Longman (Orient Blackswan), 2011. 120
“Rabindranath Tagore’s Political Imagination in The Home and the World: A Textual and Contextual Reading.” The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. New Delhi: Orient Longman (Orient Blackswan), 2011. 233-47
2010
“Introduction.” A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2010. 11-25
“Mapping the History of Malaysian Theatre: An Interview with Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof.” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 4.2 (December 2010): 155-68. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“An Interview with Anwar Ridhwan: Malaysian Literary Laureate.” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 4.1: 87-98. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic (Scopus-WoS-indexed)
“Mahamaya.” Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Mahamaya.” Transnational Literature (Australia), 3.2 (November 2010). Online. ( http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/15151/1/Mahamaya.pdf ERA-indexed)
“The Postmaster.” Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Postmaster.” South Asian Review (University of Pittsburgh, USA) 29.3: 68-72
“Number One.” Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Paila Number.” Metamorphosis: Journal of Translation (Smith College, USA) 18.1 (Spring 2010): 118-36
2009
“Editor’s Introduction.” Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean- Malaysian Literature. Eds. Mohammad A. Quayum and Wong Phui Nam. Singapore: National
21 Library Board in partnership with the Singapore Arts Council, 2009. 9-33
“Lloyd Fernando.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Southeast Asian Writers. Ed. David Smyth. Detroit, New York: Gale, 2009. 51-54
“Shirley Geok-lin Lim.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Southeast Asian Writers. Ed. David Smyth. Detroit, New York: Gale, 2009. 143-47
“Kabuliwala.” Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Kabuliwala.” Transnational Literature (Australia) 2.1 (2009). Online. http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/3401/1/Kabuliwala.pdf (ERA indexed)
2008
“Lloyd Fernando: A Tribute.” Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 2.1 (June 2008): 1-9. http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic (Scopus and WoS indexed)
“Interrogating Malaysian Literature in English: Its Glories, Sorrows and Thematic Trends.” Kunapipi (University of Wollongong, Australia) 30.1 (2008): 149-69. https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol30/iss1/13/
“Introduction.” Writing a Nation: Essays on Malaysian Literature. Eds. Mohammad A. Quayum and Nor Faridah A. Manaf. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2008. 1-8
2007
“A Herald of Religious Unity: Rabindranath Tagore’s Literary Representation of Muslims.” South Asian Review (University of Pittsburgh, USA) 27.2 (2007): 98- 120
“Self-Refashioning a Plural Society: Dialogism and Syncretism in Malaysian Postcolonial Literature.” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (University of Otago, New Zealand) 9.2 (December, 2007): 27-46
“’My Country’/’Our Country’: Race Dynamics and Contesting Nationalisms in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour and Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Joss and Gold.” Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Northern Illinois University, USA) 18.2 (Spring 2007): 62-86
22 “Between Worlds: Charting the Singapore National Identity in Lloyd Fernando’s Scorpion Orchid.” Sun Yet-sen Journal of Humanities (Taiwan) 23 (Winter 2006): 1-14
“A ‘Centre’ at the Margin: An Account of Malaysian Literature in English from (the) In/Out/Side.” Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes. Ed. Edwin Thumboo. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2007. 300-17
“Introduction.” Chuah Guat Eng: The Old House and Other Stories. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. Kuala Lumpur: Holograms, 2007. I-XI
“A Malaysian Pathfinder: The Life and Works of Lloyd Fernando.” Kulliyyah Research Bulletin 2.1 (2007): 5-7
“Muhammad Haji Salleh.” The Literary Encyclopaedia. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd. London: The Literary Dictionary Company. Online. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3242&sType=variants pe llings
“Introduction.” Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets, Novelists and Dramatists. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. I-XXVII
2006
“Imagining ‘One World’: Rabindranath Tagore’s Critique of Nationalism.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State University, USA) 7.2 (2006): 20-40
“On a Journey Homeward: An Interview with Muhammad Haji Salleh.” Postcolonial Text (Canada) 2.4 (2006). Online. http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct
“Keeper of the Creative Flame: An Interview with Suchen Christine Lim.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK) 41.3 (2006): 148-58 (ISI indexed)
“With Her Glittering Eye: An Interview with Catherine Lim.” Wasafiri (UK) 21.3 (2006): 21-26 (ISI indexed)
“Kee Thuan Chye.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd. London: The Literary Dictionary Company. Online. http://www.litencyc.com/php/printer_format_people.php?UID=2455
23 “Why Literature Matters: The Malaysian Context.” Kulliyyah Research Bulletin 1.2 (2006): 6-8
“The Rebel’s Religiosity: Kazi Nazrul Islam and Islam.” Kulliyyah Research Bulletin 1.3 (2006): 3-6
2005
“Empire and Nation: Political Ideas in Rabindranath Tagore’s Travel Writings.” South Asian Review (University of Pittsburgh, USA) 26.2: 41-60
“Confessions of a Liminal Writer: An Interview with Kee Thuan Chye.” Kunapipi (University of Wollongong, Australia) XXVI.2: 130-39. https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol27/iss1/15/
“Kaiser Haq.” The Literary Encyclopaedia. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd. London: The Literary Dictionary Company. Online. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1974
“Soulful Cerebrations: Rabindranath Tagore’s Critique of Empire and Nation in His Peripatetic Writings.” CIEFL Bulletin (India) 14.1: 31-54
“Wong Phui Nam.” The Literary Encyclopaedia. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd London: The Literary Dictionary Company. Online. http://litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4788
“Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare Baire [The Home and the World].” The Literary Encyclopaedia. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd. London: The Literary Dictionary Company. Online. http://litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16758
“Paradisiacal Imagination: Rabindranath Tagore’s Visvovod or Vision of Non- national Neo-universalism.” Quodlibet: The Australian Journal of Trans- national Writing (Flinders University, Australia) Vol. 1 (March 2005). Online. https://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/quodlibet/vol1/downloads/Tagore.pdf
“Playwright with a Plural Consciousness: Kuo Pao Kun’s Images at the Margins.” Quodlibet: The Australian Journal of Trans-national Writing (Flinders University, Australia) Vol. 1 (March 2005). Online. https://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/quodlibet/vol1/downloads/plural_consciousness.pd f
24 “A Malaysian Existentialist Story: Lee Kok Liang’s London Does Not Belong to Me.” World Literature Written in English (UK): 40.2: 136-40
“Bumiputra.” A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures. Ed. Prem Kumar Poddar and David Johnson. Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, 2005. 88-89
2004
“Dyadic Imagination: Literary Confessions of Muhammad Haji Salleh.” Malay Literature (Malaysia) 17. 1-2 (2004): 55-60
“Rabindranath Tagore.” The Literary Encyclopaedia. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Tod. London: The Literary Dictionary Company. Online. http://litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4307
“Lloyd Fernando.” The Literary Encyclopaedia. Ed. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd, eds. London: The Literary Dictionary Company. Online. http://litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1510
“Rabindranath Tagore and Nationalism.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK) 39.2 (2004): 1-6 (ISI indexed)
“Mapping a ‘Naked’ Psyche: An Interview with Wong Phui Nam.” New Literatures Review (University of Tasmania, Australia) 41: 141-60
“Traversing Borders, Negotiating Identity: Portrayal of the Malaysian-Indian Diaspora in K.S. Maniam’s The Return.” The Regenerative Spirit. Ed. Nena Bierbaum, Syd Harrex and Sue Hosking. Adelaide, Australia: Lythrum Press, 2004. 91-104
“Imagining ‘Bangsa Malaysia’: Race, Religion and Gender in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour.” The Regenerative Spirit. Ed. Nena Bierbaum, Syd Harrex and Sue Hosking. Adelaide, Australia: Lythrum Press, 2004. 14-25
2003
“Malaysian Literature in English: A Bibliography of Primary Works.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK) 38.2 (2003): 162-75 (ISI-indexed)
“Shirley Geok-lin Lim: An Interview.” The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi- Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) (USA) 28.4 (2003): 83-100. (ISI-indexed)
25
“Malaysian Literature in English: An Evolving Tradition.” Kunapipi (University of Wollongong, Australia) 25.2 (2003): 178-95. https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1961&context=kunapipi
“Nation, Gender, Identity: Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Joss and Gold.” Sun Yet-sen Journal of Humanities (Taiwan) 16 (2003): 15-32
“Paradisiacal Imagination: Rabindranath Tagore’s Visvovod or Vision Non-national Neo-universalism.” Literature and Criticism (India) 3.1 (2003): 22-43
“Introduction.” Petals of Hibiscus: A Representative Anthology of Malaysian Literature in English. Chief Editor, Mohammad A. Quayum. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2003. vix
“An Overview of Malaysian Literature in English.” Petals of Hibiscus: A Representative Anthology of Malaysian Literature in English. Chief Editor, Mohammad A. Quayum. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2003. ix-xxviii
2002
“Writer as Reformer: Interview with Robert Yeo.” Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002. 308-14
“Postnationalism and Hybridity in Robert Yeo’s The Singapore Trilogy.” Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002. 330-44
“Nestled Dreams: An Interview with Kirpal Singh.” Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002. 402-11
“A Two-headed Demon.” Rev. of Suchen Christine Lim’s A Bit of Earth. Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002. 417-19
“A New Voice in Singapore Literature: Interview with Lau Siew Mei.” Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Ed. Mohammad A.
26 Quayum and Peter Wicks. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002. 443-46
“Introduction.” Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002. XI-XIII) (Co-authored with Peter Wicks)
“Introduction.” The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia. Ed. Dipika Mukherjee, Mohammad A. Quayum and Kirpal Singh. India: Penguin Books, 2002. XI-XVI (Co-authored with Kirpal Singh and Dipika Mukherjee)
2001
“Malaysian Literature in English: Challenges and Prospects in the New Millennium.” CRNLE Journal (Flinders University, Australia) 2001: 128-40
“Imagining ‘Bangsa Malaysia’: Race, Religion and Gender in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour.” World Literature Written in English (UK) 38.1 (2001): 29- 42
“Shaping a New National Destiny with Dialogic Vision: Fernando’s Green is the Colour.” Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2001. 168-73
“Introduction.” Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2001. I-IV (Co-authored with Peter Wicks)
2000
“Smouldering in an Inflexible Mould.” Rev. of Chong Sheau Ching’s Stories for My Mother. CRNLE Journal (Flinders University, Australia; 2000): 210-12
“Introduction.” Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Sukhbir Singh. India: B.R. Publishing, 2000. VII-XIII
27 “Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King as an Allegory for the Fifties.” Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Sukhbir Singh. New Delhi, India: B.R. Publishing, 2000. 353-67
“Adopting Emerson’s Vision of Equilibrium: Citrine and the Two Opposite Poles of Twentieth Century Consciousness in Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift.” Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Sukhbir Singh. India: B.R. Publishing, 2000. 409-30
1999
“In Search of a Spiritual Commonwealth: Tagore’s The Home and the World.” Journal of South Asian Literature (Michigan State University, USA) 31. 1-2 & 32. 1-2 (1997; published in 1999): 32-45
“Introducing a Bangladeshi Writer in English: Interview with Kaiser Haq.” South Asian Review (University of Pittsburgh, USA) 20. 1 (1996; published in 1999): 92-99.
1998
“Shaping a New National Destiny with Dialogic Vision: Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour.” CRNLE Reviews Journal (Flinders University, Australia) 1-2 (1995; published in 1998): 205-10
“A Multicultural Mosaic.” Rev. of Robert Yeo, ed. Singapore Short Stories. CRNLE Reviews Journal (Flinders University, Australia) 1-2 (1995; published in 1998): 216-19
“Introduction.” In Blue Silk Girdle: Stories from Malaysia and Singapore. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 1998. xi-xxi
1997
“Quest for Equilibrium: Transcendental Ideas in Bellow’s Herzog.” Saul Bellow Journal (Michigan State University, USA) 14. 2 (1996; published in 1997): 43-69
“The Editor.” Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Shampyadak.” The Gombak Review (Malaysia) 2. 1 (1997): 51-54
1996
28 “July's People: Gordimer’s Radical Critique of White ‘Liberal’ Attitude.” English Studies in Africa (South Africa) 39. 1 (1996): 54-71 (ISI-indexed)
“The Professor.” Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Addhyapak.” Journal of South Asian Literature (Michigan State University, USA) 29. 2 (1996): 21-40
1995
“Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King as an Allegory for the Fifties.” American Studies International (George Washington University, USA) 33. 1 (1995): 65-74
“Transcendentalism and Bellow's Henderson the Rain King.” Studies in American Jewish Literature (Penn State University, USA) 14 (1995): 46-58
1994
“Transcendentalism and Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King.” Contemporary American Jewish Novel. Vol. 1. Ed. T.S. Anand. India: ABS Publications, 1994. 56-70
“Love Liberates, Love Rejuvenates.” Rev. of Basanti Karmakar’s Love in the Throes of Tradition. Skoob Pacifica Anthology No. 2: The Pen Is Mightier than the sword. Ed. C.Y. Loh & I.K. Ong. London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1994. 270-74
1992
“Emerson’s ‘Humboldt’—A Probable Source for Bellow’s Von Humboldt Fleisher in Humboldt’s Gift.” Notes on Contemporary Literature (USA) 22. 4 (1992): 7-8
“An ‘Arbiter of the Diverse’: Bellow’s Philosophical Affinity with Emerson and Whitman in Henderson the Rain King.” Saul Bellow Journal (USA) 10. 2 (1992): 42-64
“Love Liberates, Love Rejuvenates.” Rev. of Basanti Karmakar’s Love in the Throes of Tradition.” CRNLE Reviews Journal (Flinders University, Australia) 2 (1992): 56-59
Trans. “Folk Literature.” Social and Cultural History. Vol. I of History of Bangladesh 1704-1971. 3 Vols. Ed. Serajul Islam et al, eds. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1992. 586-658
29 1991
“In the Footsteps of an Ancient Tradition.” Rev. of S.P. Mani’s Ram, Ram. CRNLE Reviews Journal (Flinders University, Australia) 1 (1991): 22-26
“Adopting Emerson’s Vision of Equilibrium: Citrine and the Two Opposite poles of Twentieth Century Consciousness in Humboldt’s Gift.” Studies in American Jewish Literature (Penn State University, USA) 10. 1 (1991): 8-23
“Emerson’s ‘Humboldt’ and Bellow’s Von Humboldt Fleisher: A Study of the Decline and Fall of the Modernist Poet in Humboldt's Gift.” Indian Journal of American Studies (India) 10. 1 (1991): 99-105
“Emerson, Whitman and the Double Consciousness.” The Aligarh Critical Miscellany (India) 4. 2 (1991): 188-213. [Also published in Bangladesh Journal of American Studies 5.2: 1-22]
Rev. of Saul Bellow’s A Theft. Bangladesh Journal of American Studies 5. 2 (1991): 188-92
1989
“Finding the Middle Ground: Bellow’s Philosophical Affinity with Emerson in Mr Sammler’s Planet.” Saul Bellow Journal (Michigan State University, USA) 8. 2 (1989): 24-38 f. Newspaper/Magazine Articles
“Begum Rokeya’s Non-sectarian Pluralist-Inclusivist Imagination.” The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 11 September 2020. file:///C:/Users/User/ Downloads/Begum_Rokeya_s_Non_sectarian_Pluralist_I%20(1).pdf
“Nationalism, Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism: Tagore’s Ambiguities and Paradoxes (Part II).” The Daily Star, 4 April 2020. https://www.academia.edu/ 42660475/Nationalism_Patriotism_Cosmopolitanism_Tagore_s_Ambiguities_and _Paradoxes_Part_II_
“Nationalism, Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism: Tagore’s Ambiguities and Paradoxes (Part I).” The Daily Star, 28 March 2020. file:///C:/Users/ User/Downloads/Nationalism_Patriotism_Cosmopolitanism_T%20(3).pdf
30 “Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore.” The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 4 January 2014. http://www.thedailystar.net/english-in-malaysia- and-singapore-5296
“Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore.” The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 11 January 2014. http://www.thedailystar.net/print_post/english- in-malaysia-andsingapore-6368
“Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore.” The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 18 January 2014. http://www.thedailystar.net/english-in-malaysia- and-singapore-7212
“Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore.” The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 8 February 2014. http://www.thedailystar.net/literature/english- in-malaysia-andsingapore-10359
“Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore.” The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 15 February 2014. http://www.thedailystar.net/literature/english- in-malaysia-andsingapore-11358
“Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore.” The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 22 February 2014. http://www.thedailystar.net/literature/english- in-malaysia-and-singapore-12407
“Tagore and Nationalism.” The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 11 May 2013. http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/tagore-and-nationalism/
“Glimpses into the Making of a National Titan.” Rev. of Sheik Mujibur Rahman’s The Unfinished Memoirs. The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 16 February 2013. http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=269232
“Begum Rokeya: Tale of a Visionary.” The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 8 December 2012 http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=260312
“Nobel Laureate for Peace, Prof. Muhammad Yunus, to Give a Talk at IIUM.” New Straits Times (Malaysia), 16 August 2007: 29
“Playwright with a Plural Consciousness.” Rev. of Kuo Pao Kun’s Images at the Margins: A Collection of Plays. New Straits Times, Life and Times (Malaysia), 3 January 2001: 5
“Love Triangle Reinvented.” Rev. of Claire Tham’s Skimming. New Straits Times, Life and Times (Malaysia), 23 August 2000: 5
31 “Tales in ‘Real’ Language." Rev. of Chong Sheau Ching’s Stories for My Mother. New Straits Times, Life and Times (Malaysia), 5 April 2000: 6
“Five Hundred Years of English Literature.” Tribun Putra, UPM, 20 October 1998: 7
“Touched by a Divine Afflatus: The Life, Works and Ideology of Rabindranath Tagore.” Tribun Putra, UPM, 5 September 1998: 7-8
“The PM’s Visit to UPM: Personal Reflections.” Forum: Suara Persatuan Pegawai Akademik UPM, May 1997: 3
“Number One.” Trans. of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Paila Number.” The Daily Star, Bangladesh, February 1, 1996: 12, 14
“Straddling Two Continents: Searching for Roots.” Rev. of Adib Khan’s Seasonal Adjustments. The Daily Star, Bangladesh, Jan. 5, 1996: 17
“Robert Frost: The Philosophy of Nature.” The Bangladesh Observer, 1981: 21
“Merging with Mankind: The Poetry of Walt Whitman.” The Bangladesh Times, 1979: 19
“Shakespeare as a Poet of the Common Man.” The Bangladesh Times, 1979: 17, 18, 19 g. Interviews
“Writing Matters: in Conversation with Dr. Mohammad A. Quayum.” Kitaab (Singapore). http://irep.iium.edu.my/62588/1/62588_Writing%20Matters- %20Interview%20session.pdf
“In Conversation with Professor Mohammad A. Quayum.” Writers in Conversation (Australia). 2.1 (2014). Online. http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/27830/Quayum_Haque. pdf?sequence=1
“Featured International Islamic University Academic.” CCISUM Chronicle (UM), Vol. 8. No. 1 (October, 2014). Online. http://www.ccisum.com/chronicle/featured-iiumacademic-i8/
“Q & A with Mohammad Quayum.” Esquire Malaysia. 2 May 2014.
32 http://www.esquire.my/Entertainment/Books/article/The-Ruined-Nest-andother- stories
“The Professor and the Visionary.” The Edge (Malaysia), 5 September 2011
“Mixed Flavours.” The Edge (Malaysia), 4 August 2003: 19
“A Citizen of Our Literature.” New Straits Times, Life and Times (Malaysia), 3 August 2001: 5
“Giving Due Credit.” The Star (Second Section), 17 July 2001: 11
“Moulding a Reader in the Classroom.” Sunday Star (Malaysia), 25 July 1999: 3
“Feast of Literature at UPM.” Sunday Star (Malaysia), 16 August 1998: 15 h. Papers at International Conferences (Selected)
“‘Unity in Harmony’: Nationalism and National Identity in the Works of Selected South and Southeast Asian Writers.” Keynote address at “Journeys of/toward Identity,” a Colloquium organised by UM, 15 October 2015
“Imagining the ‘Enemy’: Adversarial Roles in the Fiction of Rabindranath Tagore and Saul Bellow, Two Nobel Laureates.” Fifth International Symposium on Comparative Culture, Kanagawa University, Japan, 13 June 2015 (Invited and sponsored speaker; Plenary paper)
“Contesting Nationalism: The Vision of Rabindranath Tagore.” 9th International Congress of Asian Scholars, Adelaide, Australia, 5-9 July, 2015
“Gender and Education: The Vision and Activism of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.” Gender and Education Association Biennial conference at the University of Melbourne, Australia, 9-11 December 2014
“Education for Tomorrow: The Vision of Rabindranath Tagore.” Education for the Future conference organised by Singapore Management University, Singapore, 2426 October, 2013.
“Crossing Cultural Borders: Hindu-Muslim Relationship in the Works of Rabindranath Tagore and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.” Border Crossings conference, organised by Flinders University, Australia, Kangaroo Island, 10-12 December, 2012
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“What Does it take to Publish in a Renowned English Journal?” Plenary address at International Postgraduate conference, organised by the International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 21 February, 2012
“In Conversation with Mohammad A. Quayum: A Discussion on Malaysian Fiction.” Sharing Borders conference, Singapore, 26 October 2009 (Invited Speaker)
“A Herald of Religious Unity: Rabindranath Tagore’s Literary Representation of Muslims.” 17th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International conference, 22- 23 November 2007
“’My Country’/’Our Country’: Race Dynamics and Contesting Nationalisms in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour and Shirley Lim’s Joss and Gold.” International Symposium of CISLE "Literatures in English: Ethnic, Colonial and Cultural Encounters" Barcelona, 23 - 27 July 2007
“Whence the Power? Wherefore the Glory?: Accomplishments and Future Possibilities of Malaysian Literature in English.” Malaysian English Colloquium organised by the Faculty of Linguistics, University of Malaya, August 2-5, 2006. (Invited Speaker)
“A ‘Centre’ at the Margin: An Account of Malaysian Literature in English from (the) In/Out/Side.” 11th Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the AsiaPacific Region, Singapore, 7-10 December, 2005 (Invited Speaker)
“Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism: Henderson the Rain King to The Dean's December.” American Literature Association conference, Boca Raton, USA, October 2003
“Traversing Borders, Negotiating Identity: Portrayal of the Malaysian-Indian Diaspora in K.S. Maniam’s The Return.” ‘Diasporas’ conference in Kangaroo Island, Adelaide, Australia, 8-11 December 2002
“Nation, Gender, Identity: Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Joss and Gold.” American Studies Reading Circle conference, Calcutta, India, 26-29 August, 2002
“Imagining ‘Bangsa Malaysia’: Race, Religion and Gender in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour.” “Encounters 2001” conference in Adelaide, Australia, December 2001
“Malaysian Literature in English: Challenges and Prospects in the New Millennium.” Plenary paper at the 2nd MICOLLAC, Kuala Lumpur, April 2001
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“Existentialism in the Fiction of K.S. Maniam: The Return and In a Far Country.” “Malaysia and Globalisation” conference at the Australian National University, Canberra, 22-24 December 1999. (Joint paper with Krishnaweni)
“In Search of a Spiritual Commonwealth: Tagore’s The Home and the World.” ACLALS conference, Kuala Lumpur, 1-6 December 1998
“Bellow and Gardner as Imagination Instructors: Henderson the Rain King and Grendel.” American Literature Association conference, Baltimore, USA, May 1995
“July’s People: Gordimer’s Radical Critique of White ‘Liberal’ Attitude.” CRNLE New Literatures conference on “Factions and Frictions: Literatures, History and Other Contra-dictions,” Adelaide, Australia, September 1994
“Bellow and the Counter Culture Movement of the ‘60s: Herzog and Mr. Sammler’s Planet." Bangladesh Association for American Studies (BAAS) conference, Dhaka, December 1992
“Finding the Middle Ground: A Study of Bellow's Philosophical Affinity with Emerson in Humboldt's Gift.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) conference, Toronto, Canada, April 1990
“Finding the Middle Landscape: A Study of Bellow’s Philosophical Affinity with Emerson in Mr. Sammler’s Planet.” Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) conference, Sydney, Australia, February 1989 i. Talks/Seminars/Professional Addresses (Selected)
“Challenges in Translating Tagore and Rokeya: Two Luminaries of the Bengal Renaissance.” Talk at UniSA, Magill Campus, Monday, 4 June 2018
“Reading and Writing Asian Short Fiction.” Talk at UniSA, Magill Campus, Wednesday, 30 May 2018
“Commemorating Tagore.” Talk at Silverfish Books, Kuala Lumpur to celebrate Tagore’s birth anniversary, 7 May 2016.
“Rabindranath Tagore’s Literary Representation of Muslims.” Talk at Jadavpur University, India, 21 March 2016
35 “The Future of Malaysian Literature.” Talk at Jadavpur University, India, 22 March 2016 “How to Publish in a Peer-reviewed Indexed Journal and the Importance of Single Author Articles.” Workshop on Qualitative Research Tools, KIRKHS, IIUM, 9 October 2015
“Translating Tagore.” Public Talk at Silverfish Books, Kuala Lumpur, 3 May 2014
“International Criteria for Publication: How to Publish an Article in a Refereed Journal from a Thesis or a Conference Paper.” Department of Arabic language and Literature, IIUM, 28 February 2012
“Formulating Research Design and Data Analysis: Introduction to Qualitative Research.” CERDAS Research Workshop Series, IIUM, 21 April 2012
“Rabindranath Tagore: An Eagle-sized Lark.” Lecture in Celebration of Tagore’s 150th Birth Anniversary, Organised jointly by the Malaysian Bengali Association, Indian High Commission and the Indian Cultural Centre, 18 February 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
“War, Violence and Rabindranath Tagore’s Quest for World Peace.” Talk at the Cross- Cultural Studies Centre, Singapore Management University, 2 March 2011
“Celebrating Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam.” Public Talk Organised by the Bangladesh High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, 1 June 2008
“Interrogating Malaysian Literature in English: Its Glories, Sorrows and Thematic Trends.” Graduate Seminar at Universiti Sains Malaysia, 6 December 2007
“Lloyd Fernando: A Celebration of his Life and Work.” At the Lloyd Fernando Occasion at Sutra House, Kuala Lumpur, 25 June 2005
“Rabindranath Tagore: An Introduction.” Talk in Commemoration of Tagore’s Birth Anniversary, Silverfish Books, Kuala Lumpur, 7 May 2005
“Imagining ‘One World'’ Rabindranath Tagore’s Critique of Nationalism.” Second Visiting Professor Lecture, State University of New York at Binghamton, 26 March 2004
“Whence the Power? Wherefore the Glory?: The Future of Malaysian Literature in English.” Lecture at the Cross-cultural Studies Centre, Singapore Management University, 6 November 2002
36 “Paradisiacal Imagination: Rabindranath Tagore’s Visvovod or Non-national Neouniversalism.” Lecture at the Cross-cultural Studies Centre, Singapore Management University, 8 November 2002
“Bangladesh and the History of Linguistic Nationalism of the Bengali People.” An address in Bengali on the occasion of the second International Mother Language Day, organised by the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 2001
“Common Skies, Divided Horizons: Triumphs of Twentieth Century Literature in the East and West.” Address at the opening of the Literature Exhibition, UPM, August 2000
“Who Would not Sing for the Mother Tongue? Glories and Sorrows of the Bengali Language.” Keynote address at the celebration of the first International Mother Language Day, UPM, 21 February 2000
“Five Hundred Years of English Literature.” Opening address at the Literature Exhibition, organised by the students of English, UPM, 27 August 1998
“Touched by a Divine Afflatus: The Life, Works and Ideology of Rabindranath Tagore.” Keynote address at the opening of the Tagore Exhibition, organised by the Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, UPM, 13 August 1998
“Poets Made by their Circumstances: Rabindranath Tagore and Nazrul Islam.” An address on the occasion of Rabindra Joyanti, organised by the Malaysian Bengali Association, Kuala Lumpur, May 1997
“R.K. Narayan as a Short Story Writer: Malgudi Days.” Anglo Chinese Girls’ School, Singapore, March 1996
“Influences of Indian Philosophy on American Literature.” Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, April 1996
“Emerson and India.” American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad, India, December 1995
“Whitman and Tagore: Two Forms of Mysticism.” Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, January 1994
“Bellow as an Imagination Instructor: Henderson the Rain King and Humboldt's Gift.” Flinders University of South Australia, May 1990
37 RECENT REVIEWS OF MY BOOKS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS/OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Reviews of The Feminist Foremother (2017)
Arif, Mir. Review of A Feminist Foremother. Kitaab (Singapore) 4 March 2019. https://kitaab.org/2019/03/04/book-review-a-feminist-foremother-critical- essays-on-rokeya-sakhawat-hossain-ed-mohammad-a-quayum-and-md- mahmudul-hasan/
Zaman, Niaz. Rev. of A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. The Daily Star (Bangladesh), 16 September 2017. http://www.thedailystar.net/book-reviews/feminist-foremother-critical-essays- rokeya-sakhawat-hossain-1462744
Ahmed, Shah. Rev. of A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Intellectual Discourse 25.2 (2017): 441-46. https://journals.iium.edu.my/ intdiscourse/index.php/islam/article/view/1041/714
Saurav, Dasthakur. Rev. of A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 11.1 (2017): 279-286 http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/982/714
Pathak, Ananya. “Towards a Gender-just Society.” Rev. of A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. The Book Review (July-August 2017). https://thebookreviewindia.org/towards-a-gender-just- society/
Reviews of The Revolutionary (Trans. of Kuhelika, 2016)
Bhattacharya, Nandini. Rev. of The Revolutionary (trans. of Kazi Nzrul Islam’s Kuhelika). Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 11.1 (2017): 292-96 http://journals.iium.edu.my/ asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/984/716
Reviews of Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories (2014)
Paoi Hwang. Rev. of Twenty-two New Asian Short Stories. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (October 2017). http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2869/630/
See Tshiung Han. Rev. of Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories. Star 2 (Malaysia) 24 March 2017. http://www.star2.com/culture/books/book-reviews/2017/03/24/book- reviewtwenty-two-new-asian-short-stories/
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Prasad, Murari. Rev. of Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories. Transnational Literature 9.2 (May 2017) http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/37223/ Prasad_Short_Stories.pd?sequence=1
McAlary, Katy. Rev. of Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories. Chaos: IUB Studies in Language, Literature and Creative Writing 4.1(2016). https://www.academia.edu/ 35682995/Katy_McAlarys_Review_of_Twenty- two_New_Asian_Short_Stories_in_ Chaos Sathiabalan, S. Indra. Rev. of Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories. The Sun Daily (Malaysia) 15 June 2016. http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1839832
Mandal, Somdatta. Rev. of Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories. Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 10.2 (December 2016): 252-55. https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/872/666
Reviews of Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories (2014)
Priyadarshini Gupta. Rev. of The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. South Asian Review 37.1 (2016): 160-61
Balakrishnan, Nandini. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. Esquire Malaysia 2 May 214. Online. http://www.esquire.my/Entertainment/Books/ article/The-Ruined-Nest-and-other- stories
Kar, Angshuman. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. The Rupkatha Journal (India) 7.2: 282-84. http://rupkatha.com/book-review- rabindranath-tagore-ruined-nest-stories/
Mourtaza, Shamsad. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. The Daily Star (Bangladesh), 9 March 2015. Online. https://www.thedailystar.net/book-reviews/the-ruined-nest-and-other-stories- 70400
Narayan, Shymala. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 9.1 (2015): 260-64. https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/614/564
Prasad, Murari. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. Transnational Literature (Australia) 7.1. Online.
39 https://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/35082/Prasad_Ruined. pdf;jsessionid=16E8C5A1E6D6724F5D38646720615688?sequence=1
Sen, Amrita. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. Visva-Bharati Quarterly (India) 23.1 (2014): 152-53
Sultana Khan, Razia. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. Chaos: Journal of Independent University (Bangladesh), 2015
Review of Beyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore (2014)
Choudhury, Serajul Islam. Rev. of Beyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 9.1 (2015): 250-54. https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/602/552
Reviews of The Essential Rokeya (2013)
Hasan, Mahmudul. Rev. of The Essential Rokeya. The Daily Star (Bangladesh), 1 June 2015. https://www.thedailystar.net/book-reviews/the-essential-rokeya-90787
Hwang, Paoi. Rev. of The Essential Rokeya. Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes (Malaysia) 8.1 (June, 2014): 237-39. https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/467/438
Mandal, Somdatta. Rev. of The Essential Rokeya. The Statesman (Calcutta, India) 13 Oct 2014. Online
Turner, Ellen, “Bengal Feminist.” Rev. of The Essential Rokeya. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (December 2014). Online
Reviews of Imagined Communities Revisited: Critical Essays on Asia-Pacific Literatures and Cultures (2012)
Leon, Carol. Rev. of Imagined Communities Revisited: Critical Essays on Asia- Pacific Literatures and Cultures. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 7.2 (December 2013). Online. http://asiatic.iium.edu.my/article/Asiatic%207- 2%20pdf%20files/Carol_review.pdf
Reviews of Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories (2011)
Cox, Michael W. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories. South Asian Review (USA) 32.2 (2011): 306-08
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Dalal, Sanghamitra and Chandani Lokuge. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories. Transnational Literature (Australia) 4.2 (May 2012. Online. http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/jspui/bitstream/2328/25923/1/Rabindranath_Tago re.pdf
Hwang, Paoi. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories. Diliman Humanities (Philippines) 8.1 (June 2011): 120-22 http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/2257/215 2
Jacobs, Jacobs. “The Professor and the Visionary.” The Edge (Malaysia). 5 September 2011: OP 18-Op19
Polley, George. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 5.1 (June 2011): 158-60. Online. http://asiatic.iium.edu.my/article/Asiatic%205.1%20pdf%20files/George.review. Quayum.pdf
Rao, Mani. “More Tagore: Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong) 16 (March 2012). Online. http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/1121/328/
Singh, Kirpal. Rev. of Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 5.1 (June 2011): 131-33. Online. http://asiatic.iium.edu.my/article/Asiatic%205.1%20pdf%20files/Kirpal_Singh .p df
Tripura, N.B.K. “Humble Life and Small Miseries.” The Daily Star (Bangladesh), Saturday, 17 September 2012: 24 http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=202748
Reviews of The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore (2011)
Aikant, Satish. Rev. of Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. The Poet and His World. Diliman Humanities 9.1 (June 2012): 111-115
Alam, Fakrul. “More and More on the Myriad Minded Man.” The Star Weekend Magazine (Bangladesh) 11.7 (February 2012). Online.
41 Mukherjee, Nilanjana. “Tagore and Internationalism.” The Book Review Literary Trust (India) XXXVII.7 (July 2013). Online.
Prasad, Murari. Rev. of Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. The Poet and His World. Asiatic 6.1 (June 2012). Online. http://asiatic.iium.edu.my/article/Asiatic%206.1%20pdf%20files/Review_Mur ari _Prasad.pdf
Rath, Arnapurna. Rev. of Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. The Poet and His World. Transnational Literature (Australia) 4.2 (June 2012). Online. https://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2328/25889/Poet_and_His_ World.pdf;jsessionid=FEA59FA66E359F0E98DCC927D822D150?sequence=1
Reviews of A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories (2010)
Cox, Michael W. Rev. of A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. South Asian Review 32.3 (2011): 221-23
Haq, Kaiser. “A Continent in Exile.” The Star (Bangladesh) 3 June 2010: 44-45
Giffard-Foret, Paul. Rev. of A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. Transnational Literature (Australia) 3.2 9 (May 2011). Online. http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/15270/1/RainbowFeast.p d f
Mandal, Somdatta. Rev. of A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 4.2 (December 2010): 187- 89. Online. http://asiatic.iium.edu.my/article/Asiatic%204.2%20pdf%20files/Somdatta.revie w.pdf
Meng Chuan, Tan. Rev. of A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. Overseas Singaporean (Official Portal of the Singapore Prime Minister’s Department). Online. http://www.overseassingaporean.sg/articles/d/book-review-a-rainbow-feast
Prasad, Murari. Rev. of A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes 4.2 (December 2010): 169-72. Online. http://asiatic.iium.edu.my/article/Asiatic%204.2%20pdf%20files/Murari.revie w.p df
Tsay, Alice. “Varying Intensities: A Rainbow Feast and Measurements.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 15 (November 2011). Online.
42 http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/1017/314/
Reviews of Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature (2009)
Lee, Gracie. Rev. of Sharing Borders. BiblioAsia (Singapore) 5.4. Online. http://mms.elibraryhub.com/SHC/PRS/Biblioasia/Volume%205%20Issue% 204/Individual%20Articles%20PDF/P37-38%20Sharing 20Book%20Review%20-%%20Borders%20by%20Gracie%20Lee.pdf
Whitehead, Angus. Rev. of Sharing Borders. Journal of Postcolonial Writing (UK) 2012: 1-3. Online issue. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449855.2011.639939
Reviews of Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets, Novelists and Dramatists (2007)
Andrew Ng. Rev. of Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets, Novelists and Dramatists. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 45.3 (September 2009): 355-56
Reviews of One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English (2007)
Eugene Chua Kee Hong. Rev. of One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English. Kajian Malaysia 30.1 (2012): 101-04
Reviews of Petals of Hibiscus: A Representative Anthology of Malaysian Literature in English (2003)
Thieme, John. Rev. of Petals of Hibiscus. Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39.1 (March 2004): 109.
Reviews of The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short stories from Singapore and Malaysia (2002)
Afiza. “Overworked Symbols Conceal Gems.” Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 1.4 (2002). Online. http://www.qlrs.com/critique.asp?id=215
Chiang Shu-chen. Rev. The Merlion and the Hibiscus. Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 16 (Summer 2003): 101-03
43 Wong Ming Yook. “Hybrid of Present and Past.” The Star (Malaysia). 21 June 2002, Section 2: 30
Reviews of Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader (2002)
Chiang Shu-chen. Rev. of Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities (Taiwan) 16 (Summer 2003): 101-03
Koh Buck Song. “Reading into a Critical Reader.” The Straits Times (Singapore). 15 January 2003: L 16
Lim, Benedict. Rev. of Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. RELC Journal (Singapore) 34 (2003): 249-51
Thieme, John. Rev. of Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK) 38.1 (March 2003): 151
Reviews of Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader (2001)
Gabriel, S.P. Rev. of Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Ariel (Canada) 33.34 (2002): 240-43
Tan Gim Yan. “Giving Due Credit.” The Star (Malaysia). 17 July 2001, Section 2: 14
Witherston, Dawn and Janet Wilson. Rev. of Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader. World Literature Written in English (UK) 38.1 (1999): 127-30
Reviews of Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English 1940s- 1990s (2000)
Campbell, Christine. Rev. of Colonial to Global. RIMA 36.1 (2002): 91-96
Witherston, Dawn and Janet Wilson. Rev. of Colonial to Global. World Literature Written in English 38.1 (1999): 127-30 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449859908589306
Reviews of In Blue Silk Girdle: Short Stories from Malaysia and Singapore (1998)
Chong Seck Chim. “Local Touch to Didactic Stories.” New Straits Times (Malaysia). 3 February 1991: 29
44 TEACHING INTERESTS AND COURSES TAUGHT
Teaching interests
Translation Theories Creative Writing Professional Writing American Literature (all Periods/Movements) Asian Literature in Translation Bengali Literature British Literature (all Periods/Movements) Comparative Literature Gender Studies History of English Language Islamic Literature Literature and Philosophy Malaysian Literature Postcolonial Literatures (with special interests in South and Southeast Asian literatures in English) Research Methods in Literature/Humanities
Courses Taught International Islamic University Malaysia
Postgraduate PhD
History of Literatures in English Twentieth Century American Literature Comparative World Literature Research Methodology
Master’s
America Literature World Literature in English Women’s Writing from Around the World Nineteenth Century Poetry and Critical Prose Research Methodology
Undergraduate
Shakespeare in His Time and in Modern Context
45 World Literature in English American Literature Malaysian and Singaporean Literature Creative Writing Asian Literature in Translation
SUNY Binghamton (USA)
Literature from the Indian Subcontinent Malaysian and Singaporean Literature Readings in Modern Bengali Literature Women in Asian Literature
University Putra Malaysia
Postgraduate
Asian Literature in Translation Comparative Literature Historical Development of the English Language Literature from the Indian Subcontinent Post-war American Literature Research Methods in Literary Studies Southeast Asian Literature in English Seminar in New Literatures in English The American Renaissance The English Romantic Period
Undergraduate
English for Academic Purposes II Expository Writing Critical Reading and Writing English Research Project Introduction to Critical Appreciation Malaysian Literature in English New Literatures in English Poetry in English Short Stories in English South and Southeast Asian Literature in English The Novel in English
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Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Undergraduate
American Literature (shared with Dr. Max Le Blond) Critical Theory (Plato to T.S. Eliot) Postcolonial Literature (shared with Dr. Philip Holden) Critical Reading and Writing Singaporean-Malaysian Literature Creative Writing
POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION
International Islamic University Malaysia
Level (MA or Year of No. Thesis Title Name of Student PhD) Graduation Third World Feminism and Che Husna Azhari’s The Rambutan Orchard and Melor in Norzie Diana Binti 1 Perspective Baharum Master’s 2007 Imperial Pilgrimage to the Muslim Orient: 1800-1850: A Nabil Mohammad 2 Postcolonial Study Moqbil PhD 2008 Interplay of Memory and History in the Poetry of Ee Tiang Hong and Edwin Nur Sheena 3 Thumboo Baharudin Master’s 2008 Interstitial Identity and Cultural Dislocation in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Liana Shazni Abdul 4 Namesake Aziz Master’s 2009
47 Representations of Women in Suchen Christine Lim’s Fistful of Colours and A Bit of Shahrul Annur Bin 5 Earth Othman Master’s 2009 Mystical Elements in the Works of Ibn Arabi and Henry David Thoreau: A Parallel Raihan Bin Md 6 Study Ghazali Master’s 2010 Negotiation of Muslim Migrant Identities: A Study of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Leila 7 Aboulela’s Minaret Faatimah Bibi Dulull Master’s 2010 Culture and Identity in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Joss and Gold and Jhumpa Rusmanizah Binti 8 Lahiri’s The Namesake Ustati Master’s 2010 The Moral Imagination of R.K. Narayan: An 9 Upanishadic Study R. Krishnaweni PhD 2011 Representation of Women in the Fiction of Rabindranath Tagore: A Study of His Selected Mangala Bhavani 10 Works Krishna Ayer PhD 2011 Literary Representation of the Malays and Malay Culture in the Fiction of Anwar Ridhwan, Shirley Lim, K.S. Maniam and 11 Karim Raslan Nurul Fatehah Aziz Master’s 2011
48 Diasporic Imagination in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and K.S. Maniam’s In a Far Country: A Comparative 12 Study Syafiq Amri Master’s 2011 Literary Representation of the Malays and Malay Culture in the Fiction of Che Husna Azhari and 13 Lloyd Fernando Madiha Ramlan Master’s 2011 Dismantling Stereotypes: A Feminist Reading of 14 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Novels Paramjit Kaur PhD 2012 Immigrant Voices in Indo-American Literature: The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Jhumpa 15 Lahiri Marzita Mohd. Noor PhD 2012 Representation of Business and Business Culture in Malaysian- 16 Singaporean Literature Zanirah Wahab Master’s 2012 Reinventing Malaysian Identity Through Multicultural Nationalism: Kee Thuan Chye’s We Could **** You. Mr Birch and Huzir Sulaiman’s Atomic 17 Jaya Mohammad Azhari Master’s 2013 The Poetry of A. Samad Said and Cecil Rajendra: Muhammad Syaukat 18 Bin Musataf Kamal Master’s 2013
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Identity in Che Husna 19 Azhari’s Fiction Nur Izzati Master’s 2014 Neo-Orientalist Narratives: A Study of the Representation of Muslim Societies in Selected Post9/11/2001 (Mohammad Literary Makram) 20 Works Omar Moh’d Balawi PhD 2014 Muslim Diaspora in the West: A Study of Selected Literary 21 Works Suraiya Sulaiman PhD 2016 Representation of Asia and Asian Culture in the Fiction of Adib Khan: A 22 Postcolonial Study Shariful Karim PhD 2018 A Search for Self: Imaginative Creativity and Enhancement in 23 Postmodern Fiction Qurratul-Ain Shirazy PhD 2017 A New Historicist Study of Shakespeare’s 24 Poetry Tanja Joned PhD 2018 Nation and Identity in Selected Malaysian Novels in the Post- Independence Period: A 25 Post-Colonial Study Eda Suhana PhD Incomplete Emersonian Individualism in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Bellow’s Henderson the Rain Nurul Akmal Che 26 King Noor Azeman Master’s 2019
50 Identity Conflicts and Crisis of Muslim Immigrants in Hanif 27 Kureishi’s Fiction Zebunnisa Razak Master’s 2017 Postmodern Elements in Selected Malaysian Suhaila Binti 28 Novels Abdullah Master’s 2017 Focauldian Panopticism in Adibah Amin’s 29 Prose Works Farah Akmar Master’s 2017 Representation of Muslims in the West: Alterity, Diaspora and Identity in Selected Contemporary Novels by Immigrant Muslim 30 Women Writers Nadira Brioua PhD 2020 Twenty-first Century British Society in Incomplete Selected Contemporary (handed British Children’s over to a Novels: A Metamodern new 31 Perspective Nurul Fateha Aziz PhD supervisor) Nationalism and Incomplete Transnationalism in (handed Contemporary over to a Bangladeshi Fiction in new 32 English Abu Sufian PhD supervisor)
University Putra Malaysia
I successfully supervised 1 PhD and 10 Master’s theses at UPM.
AREAS OF CURRENT RESEARCH
Current Research
Currently I am writing books and articles in the following areas:
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Bengali Literature South Asian Literature Malaysian and Singaporean Literature 19th and 20th century American literature Women’s Writings Ethnicity, Nationalism and Diaspora Translation Studies Rabindranath Tagore Creative Writing
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