Staff Directory
Academic Qualification
- Feminist Comparative Literature - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Portsmouth
- English Literature - Masters Degree, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- English Language - Bachelor Degree, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Md. Mahmudul Hasan (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
Associate Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus
KULLIYYAH OF ISLAMIC REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN SCIENCES
mmhasan@iium.edu.my
6045
Expert Profile
I joined the Department of English Language and Literature at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) on 1 June 2010. The courses I have taught at IIUM include South Asian Literature in English, Islamic Literature in English, Twentieth-Century English Literature and World Literature. I have supervised PhD and Masters theses mainly in the field of English and Postcolonial Literature and Feminist Comparative Literature. My work at IIUM manifests an interplay between English and postcolonial literatures.
I have recently completed a book project (with Mohammad A. Quayum) on Bangladeshi Literature in English. I edited (with Mohammad A. Quayum) and contributed to A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain which was published by Orient Longman (Orient BlackSwan) in 2017. My articles have appeared in some of the best journals in the field of literature, including the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Paedagogica Historica, South Asia Research, Hawwa and Asiatic. Currently, I am working on a project on Atiya Fyzee (1877-1967) and Zeyneb Hanoum (1883-1923) and looking at the experiences of their travels to metropolitan London.
I have presented papers at conferences organised by the Modern Language Association (MLA), International Virginia Woolf Society and European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) as well as at those held in Birmingham, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, London, Osaka, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Sydney, Washington DC and other cities.
I previously taught at the Department of English of the University of Dhaka and had postdoctoral research stints at the University of Heidelberg and at the Centre for Contemporary Theory in Baroda, India.
My PhD thesis “Introducing Rokeya’s Plural Feminism” completed at the University of Portsmouth in 2007 focused on comparing the South Asian writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s (1880-1932) works with those of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Attia Hosain (1913-98) and Monica Ali (1967-). My interest in South Asian Literature was further stimulated when I researched South Asian Muslim Feminist Literature during my postdoctoral work at Heidelberg in 2009-2010.
During my PhD years, I supply taught at British primary and secondary schools and team taught a course titled “Text in the City” at the University of Portsmouth.
I write literary pieces for The Daily Star, Bangladesh’s largest circulating English-language newspaper, and for English Literature @ Portsmouth.
I welcome research students wishing to work in the broad fields of English and Comparative/Postcolonial Literature, Islamic Literature, Feminist Literature and Islamic Perspectives on Literary Studies.
I have recently completed a book project (with Mohammad A. Quayum) on Bangladeshi Literature in English. I edited (with Mohammad A. Quayum) and contributed to A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain which was published by Orient Longman (Orient BlackSwan) in 2017. My articles have appeared in some of the best journals in the field of literature, including the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Paedagogica Historica, South Asia Research, Hawwa and Asiatic. Currently, I am working on a project on Atiya Fyzee (1877-1967) and Zeyneb Hanoum (1883-1923) and looking at the experiences of their travels to metropolitan London.
I have presented papers at conferences organised by the Modern Language Association (MLA), International Virginia Woolf Society and European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) as well as at those held in Birmingham, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, London, Osaka, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Sydney, Washington DC and other cities.
I previously taught at the Department of English of the University of Dhaka and had postdoctoral research stints at the University of Heidelberg and at the Centre for Contemporary Theory in Baroda, India.
My PhD thesis “Introducing Rokeya’s Plural Feminism” completed at the University of Portsmouth in 2007 focused on comparing the South Asian writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s (1880-1932) works with those of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Attia Hosain (1913-98) and Monica Ali (1967-). My interest in South Asian Literature was further stimulated when I researched South Asian Muslim Feminist Literature during my postdoctoral work at Heidelberg in 2009-2010.
During my PhD years, I supply taught at British primary and secondary schools and team taught a course titled “Text in the City” at the University of Portsmouth.
I write literary pieces for The Daily Star, Bangladesh’s largest circulating English-language newspaper, and for English Literature @ Portsmouth.
I welcome research students wishing to work in the broad fields of English and Comparative/Postcolonial Literature, Islamic Literature, Feminist Literature and Islamic Perspectives on Literary Studies.
Area of Specialisation
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Religious Studies ~ Comparative Religion - Comparing English and South Asian literature.
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Religious Studies ~ Quranic and Hadith Studies - Islam and English studies.
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Arts and Culture ~ Traditional Arts and Culture - South Asian Muslim literature; South Asian Muslim women's writing; and South Asian literature in English.
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ History and Philosophy of Sciences and Medicine ~ History and Philosophy of Science and Technology - Feminist literary criticism; postcolonial feminism; women in Islam (Islamic feminism)
Professional Membership
- 2008 - 2019: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (member ), Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT)
Teaching Responsibilities
| 20TH CENTURY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 2011/2012 |
| BRITISH LITERATURE UP TO THE 19TH CENTURY | 2010/2011 |
| ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY | 2018/2019 2019/2020 |
| ENGLISH LITERATURE: TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY | 2013/2014 2016/2017 2011/2012 2014/2015 2015/2016 2012/2013 2017/2018 |
| FINAL YEAR PROJECT I | 2020/2021 |
| FINAL YEAR PROJECT II | 2020/2021 |
| ISLAMIC LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | 2019/2020 2020/2021 2018/2019 2021/2022 |
| ISLAMIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE | 2012/2013 2015/2016 2011/2012 2013/2014 2014/2015 |
| LANGUAGE FOR OCCUPATIONAL PURPOSES | 2010/2011 |
| LITERARY GENRES I : POETRY | 2012/2013 2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016 |
| RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 2020/2021 2021/2022 2019/2020 |
| RESEARCH PAPER 1 | 2017/2018 2020/2021 |
| RESEARCH PAPER 1 (LITERARY STUDIES) | 2017/2018 |
| RESEARCH PAPER II (LITERARY STUDIES) | 2017/2018 2016/2017 |
| SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | 2010/2011 2019/2020 |
| TOPICS IN ISLAMIC LITERATURE | 2011/2012 2018/2019 2010/2011 2016/2017 2017/2018 2020/2021 2019/2020 2015/2016 |
| TOPICS IN ISLAMIC LITERATURE I | 2020/2021 |
| TOPICS IN ISLAMIC LITERATURE II | 2016/2017 2017/2018 |
| WORLD LITERATURE II | 2010/2011 |
| WORLD LITERATURE III: WOMEN'S WRITING AROUND THE WORL | 2015/2016 |
Research Projects
Completed
| 2021 - 2021 | Editing and Introducing Syed Sajjad Husain's Civilisation and Society (1994) |
| 2020 - 2020 | Twentieth-Century English Literature |
| 2020 - 2020 | Major Islamic Writers |
| 2018 - 2018 | Islamic Perspectives on Twentieth-Century English Literature |
| 2016 - 2018 | Islamization and Integration of Knowledge in Rokeya's Works |
| 2014 - 2016 | Textbook Project, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT, USA) |
| 2013 - 2014 | Imaginaries Versus Lived Experienced: Comparing Rokeya's and Taslima's Representations of Europe |
| 2013 - 2016 | Islamization of English Literary Studies (Twentieth Century) |
| 2012 - 2013 | Graduate Citizenry: Higher Education, Patriotism and Nation Building in Malaysia |
| 2010 - 2011 | Taslima Nasrin's Criticism of Islam: An Academic Response |
On-Going
| 2021 - Present | Islamic Perspectives on Victorian English Literature |
| 2021 - Present | An Introduction to Islamic Literature in English and Translation |
| 2011 - Present | Doris Lessing and Feminism: An Academic Response (RU 2011) |
Publications
Article
Conference or Workshop Item
Book
| 2021 | Bangladeshi literature in English: a critical anthology. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, ISBN: 978-984-35-0677-1 |
| 2019 | A young Muslim's guide to religions in the world. BIIT Publishers, ISBN: 978-984-8471-66-1 |
| 2019 | Tales of mothers 2: of love and courage. Iman Publication, ISBN: 978-983-2423-70-6 |
| 2017 | A feminist foremother: critical essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Orient BlackSwan, ISBN: 978-93-86296-00-9 |
| 2017 | Convert experiences in Lena Winfrey Seder’s and Kristiane Backer’s autobiographies. IIUM Press, ISBN: 978-967-418-612-8 |
| 2017 | Displaced & forgotten: memoirs of refugees. Iman Publication Sdn Bhd, ISBN: 978-983-2423-44-7 |
| 2017 | Experiences of diasporic Muslim women: a study of Mohja Kahf's and Umm Zakiyyah's works. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-418-635-7 |
| 2017 | Images of Islam and Muslim in v.s Naipaul's travel writing. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-418-513-8 |
| 2017 | Islam and Muslim in V. S. Naipaul's Travel Writing. IIUM Press, ISBN: 978-967-418-513-8 |
| 2017 | Islamic perspectives on twentieth-century English literature. International Institute of Islamic Thought (East and South East Asia), ISBN: 978-967-15622-0-8 |
| 2016 | Islam and gender: The Bangladesh perspective. Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT), ISBN: 978-984-8471-43-2 |
| 2015 | The greatest love: tales of mothers. Iman Publications , ISBN: 978-983-2423-28-7 |
| 2012 | Woman in the light of Qur'an and Hadith. The Islamic Foundation, ISBN: 9789860613717 |
| 2011 | Crossing boundaries: musings on language, literature and culture. IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674181468 |
| 2009 | Selections from Akram Khan's Tafsirul Qur'an. Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT), ISBN: 984-70103-0016-0 |
Book Section
| 2021 | Bangladeshi anglophone literature: an old and evolving tradition. In: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, ISBN: , pp. 1-16 |
| 2020 | Bangladeshi English. In: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 9781118791806, pp. 297-315 |
| 2019 | Challenges of womanhood and motherhood. In: Iman Publication, ISBN: 978-983-2423-70-6, pp. 199-216 |
| 2019 | Introduction: a young Muslim's guide to religion in the world. In: BIIT Publishers, ISBN: 978-984-8471-66-1, pp. ix-xix |
| 2019 | Introduction: a young Muslim's guide to religions in the world. In: BIIT Publishers, ISBN: 978-984-8471-66-1, pp. ix-xix |
| 2017 | Conclusion: stranded refugees and the global conscience. In: Iman Publication Sdn Bhd, ISBN: 978-983-2423-44-7, pp. 145-168 |
| 2017 | Conclusion: stranded refugees and the global conscience. In: Iman Publication Sdn Bhd, ISBN: 978-983-2423-44-7, pp. 145-168 |
| 2017 | Introduction. In: Orient Blackswan (formerly Orient Longman), ISBN: 978-93-86296-00-9, pp. xi-xxvii |
| 2017 | The private-public dichotomy in Rokeya's works. In: Orient Blackswan (formerly Orient Longman), ISBN: 978-93-86296-00-9, pp. 154-172 |
| 2016 | Working for women’s rights in Bangladesh. In: Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT), ISBN: 978-984-8471-43-2, pp. 1-10 |
| 2015 | Conclusion: reaffirming and celebrating motherhood. In: Iman Publications , ISBN: 978-983-2423-28-7, pp. 161-175 |
| 2011 | Introduction: crossing boundaries and celebrating diversity. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674181468, pp. 9-15 |
| 2007 | The trope of home and the representation of Muslim women in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column. In: A P H Publishing Corporation, ISBN: 81-313-0150-8, pp. 61-86 |
| 2007 | The trope of home and the representation of Muslim women in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column. In: A P H Publishing Corporation, ISBN: 81-313-0150-8, pp. 61-86 |