EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, Flinders University of South Australia, 1991
M.A. (with First Class and 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 Positions
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia, May 2004 -
Adjunct Professor, School of Humanities, Flinders University, Australia, March 2011 -
Previous Positions (Full-time) Visiting Professor, English and Asian 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
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, May 1985 - September 1988
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, July 1979 - May 1985
Previous Positions (Part-time)
Tutor, Flinders University, 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
Ph.D. Thesis Examiner, University of South Australia, 2011
External Evaluator of Application for Promotion to Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, 2011
Senate Member, International Islamic University Malaysia, 2011 -
Consultant, Insights (Da`wah Academy Journal, IIUI, Malaysia), 2011
Consultant, South Asian Review (USA), 2011
Consultant, Transnational Literature (Australia), 2011
Consultant, Intellectual Discourse (Malaysia), 2011
Consultant, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (UK), 2011
Consultant, Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK), 2005, 2007, 2011
Head, Department of English Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia, July 2006-June 2010
Ph.D. Thesis Examiner, Monash University, Australia, 2010
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
Member of Advisory Board, Diliman Humanities (the Philippines), 2010 -
Advisor, Asia-Pacific Literature Conference, IIUM, 2009
Manuscript Evaluator, Honk Kong University Press, 2009
Ph.D. Thesis Examiner, Curtin University of Technology, Australia, 2009
Member of Advisory Board, Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies (USA), 2009 -
Founding Editor, Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 2007 -
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, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, UK), 2005 -
Member of Advisory Board, Centre for the International Study of Literatures in English, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Advisor, English and Asia Conference, DELL, IIUM, November 2008
Chair, One-day Forum on Malaysian Literature, DELL, IIUM, February 2009
Ph.D. Thesis Examiner, University Putra Malaysia, 2008
Chair, One-day Seminar on Malaysian Post-colonial Literature, IIUM, 2007
Honours Thesis Examiner, Monash University (Malaysia campus), 2007
Ph.D. 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 - 05
Ph.D. Thesis Examiner, Flinders University, Australia, 2003
Co-editor, World Literature Written in English (OUP, Singapore), 1993 - 2000
ACADEMIC HONOURS/AWARDS
Adjunct Professor, Flinders University, Australia, 2011 -
Senior Research Fellow, Singapore Management University, 2011
IRRIE Research Exhibition (IIUM), Silver Medallist, 2010
Research Endowment Grant (B), IIUM, 2010
Research Endowment Grant (A), IIUM, 2010
Honorary Visiting Professor, Flinders University, Australia, May-July 2009
Best Library Partner Award, Central Library, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), 2008
Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), 2008
Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), 2007
Research Endowment Grant, IIUM, 2006
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
IRPA Research Grant, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia, 2002
IRPA Research Grant, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia, 2000 (RM 60, 000 for a project on Malaysian Literature)
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
Merit Scholarship, University of Dhaka, 1973-79