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