Professor Mohammad Quayum

Professor Mohammad A. Quayum is a full-time Researcher and Honorary Professor (with Full Academic Status) in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, at Flinders University, Australia. He has taught previously at International Islamic University Malaysia, the State University of New Work at Binghamton, University Putra Malaysia, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) and University of Chittagong (Bangladesh). Author, editor and translator of 37 books, Quayum has published more than 130 journal articles, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries in American literature, Bengali literature and Southeast Asian literature. His recent publications include Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism (ed; Springer, 2021), Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance (ed; Routledge, 2020), Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion (ed; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (ed; Orient Longman, 2017), One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English (Marshall Cavendish, 2007, 2014) and Beyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore (Bangla Academy, 2014). Quayum is also the curator and editor of a Festschrift for the Asian American Poet Shirley Geok-lin Lim, "Festschrift: The Poetry and Poetics of Shirley Geok-lin Lim," published in the December 2019 (10.2) issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (Stanford University). He is the Founding Editor and former Editor-in-Chief (2007-20) of Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes (indexed in Scopus and WoS), and sits on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Taylor and Francis, UK), Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State UP, USA), South Asia Research (Sage/University of London) and Transnational Literature (Bath Spa University, UK), among others.