PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE/SERVICE/AWARDS
Current Position
Professor (Special Grade), Department of English
Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia, May 2004
–
Honorary Positions
Adjunct
Professor, School of Humanities, Flinders University, 2011-
Honorary
Fellow, Cross-Cultural Studies Centre, Singapore Management University,
Singapore, 2010-
Editor-in-Chief,
Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 2007- (the journal
is indexed in Elsevier’s Scopus, the MLA Annual Bibliography, EBSCO, the
Journal of Commonwealth Literature’s Annual Bibliography and AustLit)
Editor-in-Chief,
Kulliyyah Research Bulletin, International Islamic University Malaysia, 2006-2010,
2013-
Advisory
Board Member, Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies (USA),
2009-
Advisory
Board Member, Transnational Literature (Australia), 2007-
Advisory
Board Member, Diliman Humanities (Philippines), 2007-
Advisory
Board Member, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge, UK), 2005-
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 of South Australia, January
1991 – July 1991
Teaching Assistant, Lakehead University, Canada, August
1982 – May 1984
Lecturer, Notre Dame College, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July
1978 – July 1979
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE
Consultant, Tamkang
Review (Taiwan), 2013
Senate Member, International Islamic University
Malaysia, 2011-2012
Ph.D. Thesis Examiner,
National University of Malaysia (UKM), 2012
External Evaluator of
Application for Promotion to Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore, 2011
Ph.D. Thesis Examiner, University of South
Australia, 2011
Consultant, Journal
of Commonwealth Literature (UK), 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
Consultant, Transnational
Literature (Australia), 2011, 2012, 2013
Consultant, Insights
(Da’wah Academy Journal, Pakistan), 2011
Consultant, South
Asian Review (USA), 2011
Consultant, Intellectual
Discourse (Malaysia), 2011, 2012, 2013
Consultant, Journal
of Postcolonial Writing (UK), 2011, 2012
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
Advisor, Asia-Pacific
Literature Conference, IIUM, 2009
Manuscript Evaluator,
Honk Kong University Press, 2009
Ph.D. Thesis Examiner,
Curtin University of Technology, Australia, 2009
Founding Editor, Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language
and Literature, 2007–
Editor, Kulliyyah Research Bulletin, IIUM,
December 2006–2010
English Editor, Journal
of Islam in Asia, IIUM, 2007–2009
Language Editor, Intellectual
Discourse, IIUM, 2007
Member of Advisory
Board, Centre for the International Study of Literatures in English, University
of Innsbruck, Austria, 2003-2008
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 of South
Australia, 2003
Co-editor, World Literature Written in English
(OUP, Singapore), 1993-2000
ACADEMIC HONOURS/AWARDS
IRRIE Research Exhibition, International Islamic University
Malaysia (IIUM), Gold Medal (1), Silver Medal (1), 2012
IRRIE Research Exhibition, IIUM, Silver Medallist,
2010
Visiting Professor, Flinders University, Australia,
May-July 2009
Research Endowment Grant (A), IIUM, 2010
Research Endowment Grant (B), IIUM, 2009
Best Library Partner Award, Central Library, IIUM,
2008
Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), IIUM, 2008
Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), IIUM, 2007
Quality Research Award (Faculty Level), IIUM, 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
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 (Singapore), 1995
Flinders University Postgraduate Research Scholarship,
1986-1990
Lakehead University Special Scholarship and Teaching
Assistantship, 1982-1984
Merit Scholarship, University of Dhaka, 1973-79
