Mohammad A. Quayum |
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Personal Profile
Mohammad A. Quayum is Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He was Visiting Professor of English and Asian Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University) in 2003-04. His previous affiliations include University Putra Malaysia (1996-2003); Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1993-96); University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (1991-93); and University of Chittagong, Bangladesh (1979-89). Quayum obtained his M.A. in English literature (with Distinction) from Lakehead University, Canada, in 1984 and his Ph.D. from Flinders University of South Australia, in 1991. He is the author or co/editor of eighteen books in American literature and post-colonial literatures, including One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English (Kuala Lumpur, Marshall Cavendish, 2007), Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets, Novelists and Dramatists (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2007), Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism (New York, Peter Lang, 2004), Petals of Hibiscus: A Representative Anthology of Malaysian Literature in English (Pearson Malaysia, 2003), 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 (International Islamic University Malaysia Press, 2001, 2003; with Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf), Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader (University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002), Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader (Pearson Malaysia, 2001), and In Blue Silk Girdle: Stories from Malaysia and Singapore (University Putra Malaysia Press, 1998). Quayum is also the author of many articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, World Literature Written in English, and Wasafiri in the UK; 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, and American Studies International in the US; Postcolonial Text in Canada; New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies; English Studies in Africa in South Africa; Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities in Taiwan; Indian Journal of American Studies, Literature and Criticism, The Aligarh Critical Miscellany, The Visvabharati Quarterly, and CIEFL Bulletin in India. Quayum’s books have been reviewed in Ariel, RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Association, Australia), Journal of Commonwealth Literature, World Literature Written in English, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, American Studies International, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities, RELC Journal, and in many newspapers in Malaysia, Singapore, and India. Quayum was a recipient of the USIS Regionalisation Fellowship in 1995, Flinders University Visiting Fellowship in 1996, and IRPA Research Grant from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia in 2000 and 2002. He received the Teaching Excellence Award at University Putra Malaysia in 1998 and 1999, and Quality Research Award at International Islamic University Malaysia in 2006, 2007, and 2008. He was co-editor of the prestigious World Literature Written in English for eight years (1992-2000), and is currently editor of the Kulliyyah (Faculty) Research Bulletin and Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature. Moreover, he is member of the advisory boards of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, UK) and Transnational Literature (Australia). 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. Quayum is a Bangladeshi citizen and an Australian Permanent Resident.
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