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Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, Flinders University of South Australia, 1991 M.A. (with Distinction), English, Lakehead University, Canada, 1984 M.A., English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1979 B.A. (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 Position Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia, May 2004 – Previous Positions (Full-time) Visiting Professor, Asian and Asian American Studies, 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 Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 1992 – June 1993 Lecturer, Department of English, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, July 1979 – September 1988 Previous Positions (Part-time) Tutor, Flinders University of 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
ACADEMIC HONOURS
Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), 2008 Best Library Partner Award, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), 2008 Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), 2007 Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), International Islamic University Malaysia, 2006 IIUM Short-term Research Grant, 2005 Visiting Professorship in English and Asian Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2003-04 Short-term Visiting Fellowship, Singapore Management University, November 2002 IRPA Research Grant, Ministry of Science, Technology and Culture Malaysia, 2002 IRPA Research Grant, Ministry of Science, Technology and Culture Malaysia, 2000 Teaching Excellence Award, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), 1998, 1999 UPM Short-term Research Grant, 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 Merit Scholarship, University of Dhaka, 1973-79
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editor, Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 2007– Editor, Kulliyyah (Faculty) Research Bulletin, IIUM, December 2005– Editorial Advisor, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, UK), 2005– English Editor, Journal of Islam in Asia, 2007– Editorial Advisor, Transnational Literature (Australia), 2008– Language Editor, Intellectual Discourse, IIUM, 2007 Advisor, Asia-Pacific Literature and Culture Conference, IIUM, November 2009 Advisor, English and Asia Conference, IIUM, November 2008 Chair, One-day Seminar on Malaysian Literature, IIUM, February 2009 Chair, One-day Seminar on Malaysian Literature, IIUM, January 2007 Member of Advisory Board, Centre for the International Study of Literatures in English, University of Innsbruck, Austria Honours Thesis Examiner, Monash University (Malaysia campus), 2007 Ph.D. Examiner, National University of Singapore, 2005 Consultant, Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK), 2005-2009 Advisor, Citigroup KL International Literary Festival, 2004 Advisory Editor, World Literature Written in English (UK), 2004-05 Ph.D. Examiner, Flinders University of South Australia, 2003 Co-editor, World Literature Written in English (OUP, Singapore), 1993-2000
PUBLICATIONS
a. Books (Authored and Edited) Mohammad A. Quayum and Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf, eds. Writing a Nation: Essays on Malaysian Literature. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2008. (ISBN 978-983-3855-94-0) Mohammad A. Quayum, edited and introduced. Chuah Guat Eng: The Old House and Other Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Holograms, 2007. (160 pages; ISBN 987-983-43778-0-9) Mohammad A. Quayum. One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English. Kuala Lumpur: Marshall Cavendish, 2007. (345 pages; 978 9833-845-41-4) Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets, Novelists and Dramatists. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. (305 pages; 978-3-03911-061-2) Mohammad A. Quayum. Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. (288 pages; ISBN 0-8204-3652-6) Mohammad A. Quayum et al., eds. 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) Dina Zaman and Mohammad A. Quayum, eds. Silverfish New Writing 3. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfishbooks (in association with the Australian High Commission, KL), 2003. (208 pages; ISBN 983-40816-5-0) Rosli Talif and Mohammad A. Quayum, eds. Diverse Voices 2. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2003. (337 pages) Dipika Mukherjee, Kirpal Singh and Mohammad A. Quayum, eds. The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia. Penguin Books, 2002. (240 pages; ISBN 0-14-302812-X) Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002. (447 pages; ISBN 983-2373-50-6) Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2001. (338 pages; ISBN 983-74-1956-3) Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf and Mohammad A. Quayum. Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English 1940s – 1990s. Malaysia: International Islamic University Press, 2001. (486 pages; ISBN 983-9727-38-9; Reprinted in 2003) Chan Swee Heng, Mohammad A. Quayum and Rosli Talif, eds. Diverse Voices: Readings in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2000. (248 pages; ISBN 983-9319-84-1) Mohammad A. Quayum and Sukhbir Singh, eds. Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. India: B.R. Publishing, 2000. (594 pages; ISBN 81-7646-167-9) Mohammad A. Quayum and Rosli Talif. Dictionary of Literary Terms. Revised Edition. Kuala Lumpur: Prentice‑Hall, 2000. (343 pages; ISBN 983-9236-51-2) Mohammad A. Quayum and Rosli Talif. Dictionary of Literary Terms. Kuala Lumpur: Prentice‑Hall, 1999. (265 pages; ISBN 983-9236-41-5) Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. In Blue Silk Girdle: Stories from Malaysia and Singapore. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 1998. (224 pages; ISBN 983-9319-45-0) 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)
b. Books (Forthcoming) Mohammad A. Quayum and Wong Phui Nam, eds. Studies in Malaysian and Singaporean Literature. Vol. 1. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2008 Mohammad A. Quayum. Trans. Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories.
c. Module Poetry in English. IDEAL: University Putra Malaysia, 1998. (For undergraduate students of the Distance Learning Programme, UPM, Malaysia)
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