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Curriculum Vitae
e. Newspaper Articles “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 “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 “The Painter.” Trans. of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Chitrakar.” The Daily Star (Bangladesh), February 8, 1996: 11, 12 “Number One.” Trans. of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Pahela 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
f. Interviews “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
g. Papers at International Conferences (Select) “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 Asia-Pacific Region, Singapore, 7-10 December, 2005 “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 “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
h. Talks/Seminars/Professional Addresses (Select) “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, Silverfishbooks, 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 “Paradisiacal Imagination: Rabindranath Tagore’s Visvovod or Non-national Neo-universalism.” 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
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Teaching interests American Literature (all Periods/Movements) Asian Literature in Translation Bengali Literature British Literature (all Periods/Movements) Comparative Literature Post-colonial Literatures (with special interests in: a. Literature from the Indian Subcontinent; b. Southeast Asian Literature in English) Research Methods in Literature Courses Taught IIUM Postgraduate Ph.D. Twentieth Century American Literature Comparative World Literature Master’s America Literature World Literature in English Nineteenth Century Poetry and Critical Prose Research Methodology Undergraduate Shakespeare in His Time and in Modern Context World Literature in English American Literature Malaysian and Singaporean Literature
SUNY Binghamton (USA) Literature from the Indian Subcontinent Malaysian and Singaporean Literature in English Readings in Modern Bengali Literature Women in Asian Literature
UPM (Malaysia) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Graduate 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 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 Research Supervision
Have successfully supervised 2 Ph.D., 12 M.A. and more than 30 undergraduate theses Current Supervision Currently supervising 4 Ph.D. and 2 Master’s students Current Research Bengali Literature; Indian Literature; Malaysian and Singaporean Literature; 19th and 20th century American literature
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