Mohammad A. Quayum

Mohammad A. Quayum

Mohammad A. Quayum (born 30 June 1954) is an academic, writer, editor, critic and translator.

Life

Mohammad A. Quayum was born in Gopalganj, Bangladesh on 30 June 1954. He has taught at universities in Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Singapore, and is currently Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia,^[1] and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law at Flinders University, Australia. He is the founding editor of Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature,^[2] and has published 27 books to date in various areas of literature. Between 1993–2000 he served as Co-editor of the journal World Literature Written in English (now Journal of Postcolonial Writing).^[3] He is on the advisory board of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Transnational Literature and Diliman Humanities (the Philippines).

Quayum is regarded as a leading critic of Malaysian-Singaporean literature^[4] and of the Bengali poet and Asia's first Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore.^[5]

Education

Quayum obtained his B.A. Hons and M.A. degrees in English Literature from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He earned a second master's degree with First Class and Distinction from Lakehead University, Canada, in 1984. In 1991 Quayum was awarded the Ph.D. degree by Flinders University, Australia for writing a thesis entitled, “Saul Bellow in the Emerson-Whitman Tradition: A Study of His Later Novels in the Light of American Transcendentalism,” which was later published in a modified form as Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism by Peter Lang, New York, in its Studies in American Jewish Literature Series, in 2004. His thesis was examined by three eminent Saul Bellow scholars: Professor Daniel Walden, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Professor Leila Goldman, Michigan State University, USA; and Professor Gloria Cronin, Brigham Young University, USA.

Selected publications

Beyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2014. ISBN 984-07-5203-0.
Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2014. ISBN 9789833221486.
The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880–1932). Leiden, New York: Brill, 2013. ISBN 9789004255852.
Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories. New Delhi: Macmillan, 2011. ISBN 0-230-33277-3.
The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. New Delhi: Orient Longman. ISBN 978-81-250-4319-5.
Imagined Communities Revisited: Critical Essays on Asia-Pacific Literatures and Cultures. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2011. ISBN 978-967-4-18215-1.
A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2010. ISBN 978-981-4302-71-5.
Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature. Singapore: National Library Board in partnership with Singapore Arts Council, 2009. ISBN 978-981-08-3910-9.
One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English. Kuala Lumpur: Marshall Cavendish, 2007. ISBN 978-983-3845-41-5.
Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets, Novelists and Dramatists. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN 978-3-03911-061-2.
Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. ISBN 0-8204-3652-6.
The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia. Penguin Books, 2002. ISBN 0-14-302812-X.
Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002. ISBN 983-2373-50-6.
Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2001. ISBN 983-74-1956-3.
Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English 1940s–1990s. Malaysia: IIUM Press, 2001. ISBN 983-9727-38-9.
Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. New Delhi: B.R. Publishing, 2000. ISBN 81-7646-167-9.
In Blue Silk Girdle: Stories from Malaysia and Singapore. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 1998. ISBN 983-9319-45-0.

References

↑ mohammad a. quayum. "Mohammad A. Quayum | International Islamic University Malaysia - Academia.edu". Iium.academia.edu. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
↑ "Editorial Board". Asiatic.iium.edu.my. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
↑ Editorial board (1998)World Literature Written in English Volume 37, Issue 1–2, January 1998, pages ebi-ebii
↑ Shridhar, Rajeev and Holden, Philip (2010) The Routledge concise history of Southeast Asian writing in English, Taylor & Francis (see p.248)
↑ Tripura, Naba Bikram Kishore (2011) Books Review: Humble life and small miseries – "Rabindranath Tagore; Selected Short Stories" by Dr Mohammad A. Quayum , Daily Star, Saturday, 17 September

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