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Siti Nurnadilla Mohamad Jamil

Academic Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Linguistics) - Doctor of Philosophy, Loughborough University
  • MA in Discourse Studies (Linguistics) - Masters Degree, Lancaster University
  • Bachelor of Human Sciences (English Language and Literature) (Honours) - Bachelor Degree, International Islamic University Malaysia

Siti Nurnadilla Mohamad Jamil (Dr.)

Assistant Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus

ABDULHAMID ABUSULAYMAN KULLIYYAH OF ISLAMIC REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN SCIENCES

nadillajamil@iium.edu.my
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Expert Profile



I am a linguist and critical discourse analyst researching how language shapes and is shaped by the social world. My research focuses on race and racism, violence against women in politics, campaign rhetoric, refugee narratives, and everyday discourse, examining how language sustains inequalities, resists power, and enables social change. 

In 2020, I founded the Critical Discourse Research Group (CDRG) with my postgraduate students to foster a collaborative, ethically grounded research culture. In 2021, in partnership with Universiti Sains Malaysia, CDRG evolved into the Malaysian Discourse Research Group (MDRG). MDRG provides a dynamic, interdisciplinary forum for local and international scholars to engage with urgent social challenges, including racism, xenophobia, and media representation. 

I am currently a Visiting Researcher at Lancaster University, UK (until September 2026), investigating the language of violence in genocidal contexts, with a focus on the ongoing genocide against Palestinians. I am also co-editor of the forthcoming volume Race, Religion, Royalty in Malaysia: Discursively Reproduced, Resisted, Renegotiated (Springer Nature). Committed to inclusive education, I strive to ensure scholarship illuminates and empowers, especially marginalized and stateless communities.


Area of Specialisation


  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Discourse Studies (Including Critical Linguistics, Text Linguistics, Mediated Discourse Analysis, CDA, Genre Studies, Genre Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Social Interactions Analysis (Macro and Micro), Semiotics) - Critical Discourse Studies


Professional Membership


  • 2022 - 2025 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Regular member ), Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) Executive Committee
  • 2023 - 2024 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), American Association For Applied Linguistics (AAAL)


Teaching Responsibilities


CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019
FINAL YEAR PROJECT I 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021
FINAL YEAR PROJECT II 2023/2024 2022/2023 2020/2021
LINGUISTICS IN THE HUMANITIES 2023/2024
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 2023/2024
RESEARCH PAPER 1 2019/2020
RESEARCH PAPER 2 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019
SYNTAX 2020/2021 2019/2020
TOPICS IN CRITICAL DISCOURSE 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019


Supervision


Language Policy Discourse In The Malaysian Parliament (2000-2012): A Semiotic Analysis.
Ph.D Completed 2022 Main Supervisor
A Discourse-Historical Analysis Of Media Coverage Of Syrian Refugee Resettlement In Canadian Liberal And Conservative Online News Sites.
Ph.D Completed 2020 Co-supervisor
The Hidden Curriculum Of Gender (Hcg) In Malaysian Secondary School English Textbooks: A Discourse-Historical Approach.
Master Completed 2025 Main Supervisor
Countering Xenophobic Narratives Towards The Rohingya Refugees Amid The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Critical Discourse Analysis.
Master Completed 2022 Main Supervisor
Legitimisation Of Hindutva Ideology In Pm Modi'S Re-Election Campaign Speeches: A Sociocognitive Discursive Analysis.
Master Completed 2021 Main Supervisor
Legitimisation Of Hindutva Ideology In Pm Modi'S Re-Election Campaign Speeches: A Sociocognitive Discursive Analysis.
Master Completed 2021 Main Supervisor
Islamophobic Expressions On Facebook: A Critical Discourse Analysis On Discriminatory Discourses Following Terror Attacks In San Bernardino, Brussels And Orlando.
Master Completed 2019 Main Supervisor
The Effects of Explicit Phonics on Reading and Speech Production among Students with General Learning Disability (GLD).
The Effects Of Explicit Phonics On Reading And Speech Production Among Students With General Learning Disability (Gld).
Master In Progress Main Supervisor


Research Projects


Completed
2022 - 2023 Break the Barriers (BtB): SPM Prep Programme for Stateless and Undocumented Children
2020 - 2020 Socio-Economic Report Covid-19: Social Cohesion and Community Resilience (Migrant/refugee and threat to socio-economic livelihood issue)
2019 - 2021 Study of Vehicle Rearward Visibility for Motorcycle Safety in Malaysia and Indonesia
On-Going
2022 - Present Language Literacy via Mobile Technology


Awards & Recognition


09 Jun, 2023 HIGH IMPACT RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION AWARD (SILVER) - AHAS KIRKHS Takreem 2023 KCDIO
09 Jun, 2023 PROMISING AWARD FOR RESEARCH (BRONZE) - AHAS KIRKHS Takreem 2023 KCDIO
12 Oct, 2022 MPC Productivity Champion - Malaysia Productivty Corporation National
27 Jul, 2022 Most Promising Flagship Project Award (FG04 BREAK THE BARRIERS) - IIUM Takrim 2022 University
11 Jun, 2022 Community Engagement Award (GOLD) - AHAS KIRKHS Takreem 2022 KCDIO
01 Jan, 2021 Project Leader, BREAK THE BARRIERS (BtB) IIUM Flagship 2.0 - International Islamic University Malaysia University


Publications


Articles

2025 'Your English is so good' - raciolinguistic reflections from Malaysia and how this is more complicated than you think. Sinar Daily, () pp.
2025 How propaganda masquerades as scholarship in the debate over Palestine. Sinar Daily, 28 March 2025 () pp.
2025 Peace is not the price of Palestinian freedom. Sinar Daily, () pp.
2025 Reclaiming agency in an age of misinformation. Sinar Daily, () pp.
2025 The great education dilemma: passion, paychecks, and purpose. Sinar Daily, () pp.
2025 Why Bahasa Melayu isn't dying - and what it really needs to grow. Sinar Daily, () pp.
2024 “Greetings from hell (neraka kirim salam)”: a discourse analysis of religious-based cyberbullying of dehijabis. Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS), 9 (1) pp. 1-24
2024 An evening with Norman Finkelstein and the unseen genocide of Gaza. Sinar Daily, 22 December 2024 () pp.
2024 Can anyone intervene? Ending the genocide in Palestine. Sinar Daily, 4 November 2024 () pp.
2024 Can we find work-life balance without compromising faith?. Islamicity, () pp.
2024 Reconstructing #NotMyPM from the #backdoorgovernment: a social actor analysis of Muhyiddin Yassin. Media Asia, 51 (2) pp. 232-256
2024 Stop mocking the trauma of GISBH survivors. Sinar Daily, () pp.
2024 Truth sacrificed as academic neutrality on Gaza plagues scholarly discourse. TRT World, () pp.
2024 Universities must open their doors to stateless children in Malaysia. Sinar Daily, () pp.
2023 Negotiating racism in online apologia: a critical discourse analysis of comments on ‘locked up in Malaysia’s lockdown’ Al-Jazeera’s (2020, July 3) documentary. 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 29 (4) pp. 142-159
2023 The sciences and the arts: are we seriously still debating this in 2023?. The Star, () pp. 1-4
2023 Western media complicit in silencing Palestinian struggle. New Straits Times, 13 April 2023 () pp. 17-17
2022 Don’t get easily persuaded by political rhetoric, be more active and informed voters in GE15. Sinar Daily, 16 November 2022 () pp.
2022 Reclaiming our university for all, including stateless children: one step closer. IIUM Today, 13 Aug 2022 () pp.
2022 Vote based on facts, not fears. New Straits Times, 8 November 2022 () pp.
2021 Panggil saya Abah: Metafora dan politik paternalisme infantil. Svara, July- September 2021 (7) pp. 46-49
2020 ‘Malaysia belongs to the Malays’ (Malaysia ni Melayu Punya!): Categorising ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Malaysia’s mainstream Malay-language newspapers. Critical Discourse Studies Journal, () pp.
2020 Amal kebersihan verbal lawan rasisme. Berita Harian, 24 June 2020 () pp.
2020 Don’t patronise our students. The Star, 11th April 2020 () pp.
2020 Every child has a right to education – including 'invisible' stateless children. The Star, 22nd September 2020 () pp.
2020 Let's fight racism in Malaysia with verbal hygiene. The Star, 22 June 2020 () pp.
2019 Support reform, dissent. New Straits Times, 19th December 2019 () pp.
2019 We are not just academics. The Star, () pp.
2016 Violence and understanding in Gaza: the British broadsheets’ coverage of the war. Journal of Language and Politics, 15 (5) pp. 650-652
2014 ‘Character assassination’ si tertuduh meliwat: siapa yang untung?. The Malaysian Insider (TMI), 24 October 2014 () pp.
2014 An open letter to all Malaysian undergrads. The Malaysian Insider (TMI), 12 May 2014 () pp.
2014 An open letter to all SPM school-leavers. The Malaysian Insider (TMI), 8 April 2014 () pp.
2014 Demonising demonstration: (de) legitimization strategies through emotions in the speeches of Hosni Mubarak and Ben Ali. Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 20 (Language for Communication and Learning), (20) pp. 1-10
2014 Selangor MB crisis 101. The Malaysian Insider (TMI), 13 August 2014 () pp.
2014 Shame is already a revolution. The Malaysian Insider (TMI), 24 April 2014 () pp.
Conference or Workshop Items

2025 Framing the ‘demon’: a cognitive grammar analysis of the New York Times’ portrayal of Palestinians post-October 7, 2023. In: Culture and Cognition in Language: CCL 4.,
2023 Beyond Defensiveness: the linguistic strategies of hate speech in Malaysian Online comments. In: Hate Speech at the Crossroads of Aggression, Anxiety and Resonance: From Linguistics to Politics and Beyond,
2022 ‘We are not Xenophobic, but we love our Malaysia’: dissecting anti-Rohingya online discourses in the time of pandemic. In: Malaysian Discourse Research Group (Research Talk Series),
2022 Locked up in Malaysia’s lockdown: self and other positioning in Malaysian responses to Al-Jazeera’s (2020) documentary. In: TOX7008 Critical Discourse Analysis Webinar,
2022 Negotiating racism in apologia during the pandemic: critical discourse analysis of comments on al Jazeera’s ‘locked up in Malaysia’s lockdown’ (2020) documentary. In: 9th conference of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD),
2021 “SEND THEM HOME!”: Critical discourse analysis of petitions against Rohingya refugees in Malaysia during the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: 8th New Zealand Discourse Conference 2021,
2021 Re-shaping the narrative: media representation of migrants and refugees in digital spaces. In: Media Literacy Workshop for Youth (IOM United Nations (UN) Migration),
2021 Verbal hygiene: Mind your language!. In: Seminar on Cleanliness: The Epitome of our Faith,
2020 Asian critical discourse studies? some reflections on Malaysian election campaign discourse research. In: Knowledge Decolonisation: Revisiting Asian Discourse Studies,
2020 Learn to do discourse analysis badly. In: FYP Online Workshop Series 2020,
2020 Malaysia belongs to the Malays': A critical discourse analysis of netizens’ comments on Zainal Kling’s opening speech at the Malay Dignity Congress (2019). In: International Conference on Language and Literature 2020 (ICLL 2020),
2020 Nurturing harmonious online inter group relation during and post Covid-19 pandemic. In: Nurturing Harmonious Online Inter Group Relation During and Post Covid-19 Pandemic,
2019 Rearward visibility assessment and a proposed performance scoring for ASEAN NCAP. In: 4th International Conference & Sustainable Mobility (ICSM),
2019 Rearward visibility technology in ASEAN market. In: 4th International Conference & Sustainable Mobility (ICSM),
2019 Textual analysis: discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis. In: Research Issues and Methodology Seminar,
Book Sections

2025 Educational transformation. In: Centre for Islamisation (CENTRIS), IIUM, ISBN: 978-629-95416-1-5, pp. 219-232
2023 'Reject Rohingya and send them back!’: digital discourses of nationalism and xenophobia in the time of pandemic. In: Routledge, ISBN: 9781032292724, pp. 118-142
2023 'Remember our race, our religion and our progeny’: an argumentation analysis of Malay-Language newspapers during General Election campaigns. In: Springer, ISBN: 978-981-19-5333-0 (hardcover),, pp. 139-161
2022 Verbal hygiene: mind your language!. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: , pp.
Monograph

2021 The onset of a pandemic: impact assessments and policy responses in Malaysia during COVID-19. In: United Nations Development Programme,
2021 The onset of a pandemic: impact assessments and policy responses in Malaysia during the early months of COVID-19. In: United Nations,