Supervision




POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION AND TEACHING 
International Islamic University Malaysia

No.
Thesis Title
Name of Student
Level
(Master’s or PhD)
Completion Date
1
Imperial Pilgrimage to the Muslim Orient: 1800-1850
Nabil Mohammed Moqbil
PhD
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
Culture and Identity in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Joss and Gold and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
Rusmanizah Binti Ustati
Master’s
2010
9
The Moral Imagination of R.K. Narayan: An Upanishadic Study
R. Krishnaweni
PhD
2011
10
Representation of Women in the Fiction of Rabindranath Tagore: A Study of His Selected Works 
Mangala Bhavani
PhD
2011
11
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
12
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
13
Literary Representation of the Malays and Malay Culture in the Fiction of Che Husna Azhari and Lloyd Fernando
Madiha Ramlan
Master’s
2011
14
Dismantling Stereotypes: A Feminist Reading of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Novels
Paramjit Kaur
PhD
2012
15
Immigrant Voices in Indo-American Literature: The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Jhumpa Lahiri
Marzita Mohd. Noor
PhD
2012
16
Representation of Business and Business Culture in Malaysian-Singaporean Literature
Zanirah Wahab
Master’s
2012
17
“Reinventing Malaysian Identity Through Multicultural Nationalism: Kee Thuan Chye’s We Could **** You. Mr Birch and Huzir Sulaiman’s Atomic Jaya
Mohammad Azhari
Master’s
2013
18
The Poetry of A. Samad Said and Cecil Rajendra: A Comparative Study in Ecocriticism
Muhammad Syaukat Bin Musataf Kamal
Master’s
2013
 


TEACHING INTERESTS AND COURSES TAUGHT

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

International Islamic University Malaysia

Postgraduate 
PhD

History of Literatures in English
Twentieth Century American Literature
Comparative World Literature
Research Methodology

Masters

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

SUNY Binghamton (USA)

Literature from the Indian Subcontinent
Malaysian and Singaporean Literature in English
Readings in Modern Bengali Literature
Women in Asian Literature

University Putra Malaysia

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

NIE, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

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