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Wan Nur Madiha Binti Ramlan

Academic Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide
  • Master of Human Sciences (English Literary Studies) - Masters Degree, International Islamic University Malaysia
  • Bachelor of Human Sciences (English Language & Literature) (Honours) - Bachelor Degree, International Islamic University Malaysia

Wan Nur Madiha Binti Ramlan (Dr.)

Assistant Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus

ABDULHAMID ABUSULAYMAN KULLIYYAH OF ISLAMIC REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN SCIENCES

Other's position:

Head, AbdulHamid AbuSulayman Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences


madyramlan@iium.edu.my
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Area of Specialisation


  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Literary Studies (Including Literary Genres, Stylistics) - American Literature
  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Literary Studies (Including Literary Genres, Stylistics) - Asian Australian literature


Professional Membership


  • 2021 - 2022 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), The Australasian Consortium of Humanities Researchers & Centres


Teaching Responsibilities


19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE 2024/2025 2019/2020 2018/2019
20TH CENTURY AMERICAN literature 2020/2021
20TH CENTURY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 2022/2023 2020/2021 2018/2019
AMERICAN LITERATURE I 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017
AMERICAN LITERATURE II 2018/2019 2017/2018
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE 2024/2025
DIGITAL HUMANITIES FOR LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY STUDIES 2025/2026 2024/2025
ENGLISH LITERATURE: TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY 2017/2018 2016/2017
FINAL YEAR PROJECT I 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021
FINAL YEAR PROJECT II 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING 2021/2022
INTERNSHIP 2024/2025
ISLAMIC LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 2021/2022 2019/2020
ISSUES IN WORLD LITERATURE 2023/2024 2022/2023
LITERARY GENRES I : POETRY 2016/2017 2015/2016
LITERARY GENRES I: DRAMA AND POETRY 2021/2022
LITERARY GENRES II : INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA 2016/2017
LITERARY GENRES III:THE NOVEL & SHORT STORY 2015/2016
READING POETRY 2023/2024 2022/2023
RESEARCH PAPER 1 2022/2023 2019/2020
RESEARCH PAPER 2 2022/2023 2019/2020
RESEARCH PAPER II 2019/2020
WORLD LITERATURE II : WOMEN'S WRITING AROUND THE WORLD 2019/2020
WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016


Supervision


The Art Of Transgression In Rabindranath Tagore'S Works On Screen: An Auteurist Study.
Ph.D Completed 2021 Co-supervisor
Representation Of Muslims In The West: Alterity, Diaspora And Identity In Selected Contemporary Novels By Immigrant Muslim Women Writers.
Ph.D Completed 2020 Co-supervisor
Comparative Study of Trauma and Memory in Selected Partition Novels From India and Palestine.
Comparative Study Of Trauma And Memory In Selected Partition Novels From India And Palestine.
Ph.D In Progress Main Supervisor
Identity, Memory, History and Generational Dynamics in Algerian Women's Writing.
Identity, Memory, History And Generational Dynamics In Algerian Women'S Writing.
Ph.D In Progress Main Supervisor
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Marriage And Courtship In Puteri Gunung Ledang And Kaguya-Hime No Monogatari: A Sentiment Analysis And Cultural Materialist Perspective .
Master Completed 2025 Main Supervisor
Challenges Towards Cosmopolitanism In Hanna Alkaf'S The Weight Of Our Sky And Geetha Krishnan'S The Seat .
Master Completed 2023 Main Supervisor
Charting The Evolution Of Travel Writing By Women Writers From The West In The Asian Orient: Examining The Works Of Isabella Bird And Elizabeth Gilbert.
Master Completed 2022 Main Supervisor
Islamic Adaptation Of Classical Western Fairy Tales: A Study Of Selected Works Of Gilani-Williams .
Master Completed 2021 Co-supervisor
The Influence Of Social Media On Language Errors: A Study On Whatsapp Text Messages By Iium Students.
Master Completed 2021 Co-supervisor
Nyonya Cuisine As Culinary Capital: A Feminist Study Of Food And Women'S Empowerment In English- Language Fiction By Malaysian Chinese Women Writers.
Master Completed 2020 Co-supervisor
Transmutation Of Emersonian Individualism And The American Dream In Two American Novels: The Great Gatsby (1925) By F. Scott Fitzgerald And Henderson The Rain King (1959) By Saul Bellow.
Master Completed 2019 Main Supervisor
Huzir Sulaiman'S Atomic Jaya: A Critique Of The Political And Social Situation Of The Nation.
Master Completed 2018 Co-supervisor
Transnational Feminism In Arundhati Roy'S Novels And Essays.
Master Completed 2018 Co-supervisor


Research Projects


Completed
2024 - 2025 Student Motivation and Engagement in Diverse Learning Environments
2019 - 2022 Developing a new framework of English lexical and morphological development among Malaysian primary-school children.
2016 - 2018 Islamization and Integration of Knowledge in Rokeya's Works
2016 - 2019 A Study on Postcolonial Malaysian Women's Life-Writing: Spatiality, Identity, and Nation
On-Going
2024 - Present Framing Islam within the Speculative in Muslim Writing: Examining Islam, Muslimness and Islamic Histories in Bird Summons (2023) by Leila Abouleila and Alif the Unseen (2012) by G. Willow Wilson
2017 - Present Examining Kampung Landscapes and Contemporary Malaysian Culture in Popular Malaysian Anglophone Literature
2017 - Present Language Shift and Language Maintenance of Javanese Speakers in Malaysia


Awards & Recognition


10 Jun, 2022 Best Academic (Bronze) - AHAS KIRKHS KCDIO


Publications


Articles

2025 From adventure books to the Quran: the transformative power of storytelling. IslamiCity, () pp.
2024 Can we find work-life balance without compromising faith?. Islamicity, () pp.
2024 Om Prakash Dwivedi and Aleks Wansbrough (eds.), Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities: COVID-19, the (Post)Apocalyptic, the Dystopian and the Postcolonial. Routledge, 2024, 138 pp. ISBN: 978-103-272-813-1.. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 18 (2) pp. 189-193
2024 SOCA 2320 and ENGL 1330 students support PPR Sg. Bonus families. IIUM Today, () pp.
2023 Maternal monstrosity in “The tale of Si Tanggang”. 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 29 (1) pp. 200-212
2023 Puteri Gunung Ledang in popular media: womanhood, femininity and gender in Puteri Gunung Ledang (2004) and Magika (2010). Malay Literature, 36 (1) pp. 65-88
2023 The sciences and the arts: are we seriously still debating this in 2023?. The Star, () pp. 1-4
2022 Asia-Pacific writers: voices from the centre to the peripheries. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 16 (1) pp. 7-11
2021 PositioningAsian Australian Writing: A Study of Three Australian Literary Anthologies. Asiatic, 15 (1) pp. 183-201
2020 Adaptation and auteurism in South Asian Studies with reference to Rabindranath Tagore’s Works on Screen. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 14 (1) pp. 259-272
2020 Adapting fairy tales through an Islamic lens: a study of Gilani-Williams’ Cinderella: an Islamic tale. History of Education & Children’s Literature, xv (2) pp. 891-905
2020 The acquisition of English grammar among Malay-English bilingual primary school children. GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, 20 (4) pp. 166-185
2020 Yunus, Raudah et al. HerSTORY: Tales of Teen Girl Troubles and Triumphs. Kuala Lumpur: MPH Publishing, 2020. 90 pp. ISBN 967-415-548-1.. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 14(2), 14 (2) pp. 133-136
2019 In search of 'home' in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers. The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, 12 (2) pp. 103-127
2019 In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers. The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, 12 (2) pp. 103-127
2018 In all seriousness: humour in Adibah Amin's as I was passing and as I was passing II. Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Huanities, 25 (2) pp. 23-47
2016 R. Krishnan, ed. Faultlines. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2015. 159 pp. ISBN 978-983-3221-51-6. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature , 10 (1) pp. 261-264
2016 Theophilus Kwek, Giving Ground. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2016. 76 pp. ISBN978-981-09-8599-8. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 10 (2) pp. 298-300
2014 Malay characters in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the colour. Asiatic, 8 (2) pp. 125-136
2010 Mapping the history of Malaysian theatre: an interview with Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof. Asiatic, 4 (2) pp. 155-168
Conference or Workshop Items

2020 A monstrous reading of selected mothers in Malay folktales. In: DELL Research Seminar 2020,
2020 Positioning Asian Australian writing in anthologies of Australian literature and Australian literary history. In: International Conference on Language & Literature 2020 (ICLL 2020),
2020 The acquisition of English grammar among bilingual Malay- English primary school children. In: DELL Research Seminar 2020,
2018 In search of 'home' in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers. In: International Conference on Literature 2018 (ICL),
Books

2023 Budaya membaca Malaysia: satu tinjauan terkini. The BIblio Press, ISBN: 9789670040349
2017 The Malays in the fiction of Lloyd Fernando and Che Husna Azhari. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-418-624-1
Book Sections

2023 Kepentingan akses bahan bacaan di kalangan kanak-kanak B40 dan rentan di Malaysia: satu tinjauan. In: Kenyalang, The Biblio Press Enterprise, ISBN: 9789670040349, pp. 109-135
2017 Mass media: potential threat to young minds. In: Penerbit Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, ISBN: 978-967-0899-69-5, pp. 97-106