Another Personality That We Should Know ( Mohammad A. Quayum)

Mohammad A. Quayum is Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law at Flinders University, Australia. He was a 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 (1992-93) and University of Chittagong, Bangladesh (1979-88). 

Quayum obtained his MA in English Literature (with First Class and Distinction) from Lakehead University, Canada, in 1984 and his PhD from Flinders University (South Australia), in 1991. He is the author, editor or translator of twenty five books in the areas of American literature, Asian Literature and Postcolonial literatures, including The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) (Leiden, Brill, 2013), Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories (New Delhi, Macmillan, 2011), The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore (New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2011), Imagined Communities Revisited: Critical Essays on Asia-Pacific Literatures and Cultures (Kuala Lumpur, IIUM Press, 2011), A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories (Singapore, Marshall Cavendish, 2010), Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature (Singapore National Library Board, in partnership with the Singapore Arts Council, 2009), 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), The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia (New Delhi, Penguin, 2002), Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English 1940s – 1990s (Kuala Lumpur, IIUM Press, 2001, 2003), Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader (Kuala Lumpur, University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002), Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader (Pearson Malaysia, 2001), Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work (New Delhi: B.R. Publishing, 2000), and In Blue Silk Girdle: Stories from Malaysia and Singapore (Kuala Lumpur, University Putra Malaysia Press, 1998). 

Quayum is also the author of fifty-odd articles in distinguished peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, World Literature Written in English and Wasafiri in the United Kingdom; 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 in New Zealand; 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 American Studies International (USA), Ariel (Canada), Asiatic (Malaysia), Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), Diliman Humanities (Philippines), Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK), Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies (USA/India), Journal of Postcolonial Writing (UK), Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies (Malaysia), Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, RELC Journal (Singapore), RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Association, Australia), South Asian Review (USA), Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities (Taiwan), Transnational Literature (Australia), World Literature Written in English (UK), and in many newspapers in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Singapore.

Quayum was a recipient of the USIS Regionalisation Fellowship in 1995; Flinders University Visiting Fellowship in 1996; IRPA Research Grant from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia in 2000 and 2002; Visiting Professorship at Flinders University in 2009, and Senior Research Fellowship at the Singapore Management University in 2009 and 2010. He received Teaching Excellence Award at University Putra Malaysia in 1997 and 1998, and Quality Research Award at International Islamic University Malaysia in 2006, 2007 and 2008 (at the Faculty Level; three years consecutively). He was co-editor of the prestigious literary journal World Literature Written in English for eight years (1992-2000; published by the Oxford University Press, Singapore), and is the Founding Editor of Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature (indexed in Elsevier’s Scopus). He is on the advisory board of four leading journals in his field: Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, UK), Transnational Literature (Australia), Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies (USA) and Diliman Humanities (the Philippines). 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. He was born on June 30, 1954. He lives in Gombak, Kuala Lumpur with his wife, Natasha and daughter, Sasha.

Books

Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. and trans., The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Leiden, New York: Brill, 2013. (240 pages; ISBN 13: 9789004255852)

http://www.brill.com/essential-rokeya

Mohammad A. Quayum, trans and introduced. Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories. New Delhi: Macmillan, 2011) (216 pages; ISBN 023-033-277-3)

http://www.macmillanindia.com/book-details.asp?bookid=4010&from=gr&broadid=44&detailedid=78

 

Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2011 (316 pages; 978-81-250-4319-5)

http://www.orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=19&isbn=978-81-250-4319-5&detail=2

Nor Faridah A. Manaf and Mohammad A. Quayum, eds. Imagined Communities Revisited: Critical Essays on Asia-Pacific Literatures and Cultures. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2011 (246pages; ISBN 978-967-418-215-1; with a Foreword by Benedict Anderson)

http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/Products/485-wwwgooglecom.aspx

Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2010 (330pages; ISBN 13: 978-981-4302-71-5)

http://www.marshallcavendish.com/marshallcavendish/genref/A-Rainbow-Feast-B24174_Singapore.aspx

Mohammad A. Quayum and Wong Phui Nam, eds. Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature. Singapore: National Library Board, in partnership with Singapore Arts Council, 2009. (267 pages; ISBN 978-981-08-3910-9) http://www.ethosbooks.com.sg/store/mli_viewItem.asp?idProduct=239

Mohammad A. Quayum and Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf, eds. Writing a Nation: Essays on Malaysian Literature. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2008. (305 pages; ISBN 978-983-3855-94-0)

http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/Products/223-wwwgooglecom.aspx

Mohammad A. Quayum. One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English. Kuala Lumpur: Marshall Cavendish, 2007. (345 pages; ISBN 978 9833-845-41-4)

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4230502

Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets, Novelists and Dramatists. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. (305 pages; ISBN 978-3-03911-061-2)

http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.cst.ebooks.datasheet&id=13651

Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Chuah Guat Eng: The Old House and Other Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Holograms, 2007. (160 pages; ISBN 987-983-43778-0-9)

Mohammad A. Quayum. Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. (288 pages; ISBN 0-8204-3652-6)

http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=44247&cid=690

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: Silverfish Books (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: IIUM Press, 2001. (486 pages; ISBN 983-9727-38-9; Reprinted in 2003)

http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/Products/247-wwwgooglecom.aspx

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)

http://www.silverfishbooks.com/buybooks/index.php?main_page=product_book_info&products_id=941

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)

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