TEACHING INTEREST AND COURSES THOUGHT
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Teaching interests
American Literature (all Periods/Movements)
Asian Literature in Translation
Bengali Literature
British Literature (all Periods/Movements)
Comparative Literature
Gender Studies
Literature and Philosophy
Post-colonial Literatures (with special interests in South and Southeast Asian literatures in English)
Research Methods in Literature/Humanities
Courses Taught
Postgraduate
PhD
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
Literature from the Indian Subcontinent
Malaysian and Singaporean Literature in English
Readings in Modern Bengali Literature
Women in Asian Literature
Postgraduate
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
Expository Writing
Critical Reading and Writing
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
Undergraduate
American Literature (shared with Dr. Max Le Blond)
Critical Theory (Plato to T.S. Eliot)
Postcolonial Literature (shared with Dr. Philip Holden)
Critical Reading and Writing
POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION
International Islamic University Malaysia
| No. | Thesis Title | Name of Student | Level (MA or PhD) |
Completion Date |
| 1 | Imperial Pilgrimage to the Muslim Orient: 1800-1850 | Nabil Mohammed Moqbil | Ph.D. | 2008 |
| 2 | Third World Feminism and Che Husna Azhari`s The Rambutan Orchard and Melor in Perspective | Norzie Diana Binti Baharum | Master's | 2007 |
| 3 | Interplay of Memory and History in the Poetry of Ee Tiang Hong and Edwin Thumboo | Nur Sheena Baharudin | Master's | 2008 |
| 4 | Interstitial Identity and Cultural Dislocation in Bharati Mukherjee`s Wife and Jhumpa Lahiri`s The Namesake | Liana Shazni Abdul Aziz | Master's | 2009 |
| 5 | Representations of Women in Suchen Christine Lim`s Fistful of Colours and A Bit of Earth | Shahrul Annur Bin Othman | Master's | 2009 |
| 6 | Mystical Elements in the Works of Ibn Arabi and Henry David Thoreau: A Parallel Study | Raihan Bin Md Ghazali | Master's | 2010 |
| 7 | Negotiation of Muslim Migrant Identities: A Study of Monica Ali`s Brick Lane and Leila Aboulela`s Minaret | Faatimah Bibi Dulull | Master's | 2010 |
| 8 | Negotiation of Muslim Migrant Identities: A Study of Monica Ali`s Brick Lane and Leila Aboulela`s Minaret | Rusmanizah Binti Ustati | Master's | 2010 |
| 9 | The Moral Imagination of R.K. Narayan: An Upanishadic Study | R. Krishnaweni | Ph.D. | 2011 |
| 10 | Representation of Women in the Fiction of Rabindranath Tagore: A Study of His Selected Works | Mangala Bhavani | Ph.D. | 2011 |
| 11 | Dismantling Stereotypes: A Feminist Reading of Bapsi Sidhwa's Novels | Paramjit Kaur | Ph.D. | Under examination |
| 12 | Immigrant Voices in Indo-American Literature: The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Jhumpa Lahiri | Marzita Mohd. Noor | Ph.D. | Under examination |
| 13 | Literary Representation of the Malays and Malay Culture in the Fiction of Anwar Ridhwan, Shirley Lim, K.S. Maniam and Karim Raslan | Nurul Fatehah Aziz | Master's | 2011 |
| 14 | Representation of Business and Business Culture in Malaysian-Singaporean Literature | Zanirah Wahab | Master's | In progress |
| 15 | Diasporic Imagination in Jhumpa Lahiri`s The Namesake and K.S. Maniam`s In a Far Country: A Comparative Study | Syafiq Amri | Master's | 2011 |
| 16 | Literary Representation of the Malays and Malay Culture in the Fiction of Che Husna Azhari and Lloyd Fernando | Madiha Ramlan | Master's | 2011 |
University Putra Malaysia
I successfully supervised one Ph.D. and 10 Master's theses at the university.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
Current Research
Currently I am writing books and articles in the following areas:
Bengali Literature
Indian Literature
Malaysian and Singaporean Literature
19th and 20th century American literature
Women`s Writings Translation Studies