Staff Directory
Academic Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Postcolonial Literature in English Language) - Doctor of Philosophy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
- Master of Arts (English Literature) - Masters Degree, University of Sussex
- Bachelor of Human Sciences (English Language and Literature) (Honours) - Bachelor Degree, International Islamic University Malaysia
Siti Nuraishah Binti Ahmad (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
Associate Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus
ABDULHAMID ABUSULAYMAN KULLIYYAH OF ISLAMIC REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN SCIENCES
aishah@iium.edu.my
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Expert Profile
Siti Nuraishah Ahmad is assistant professor in literature at the Department of English Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. She has published articles on travel writing and the environmental history of colonial Malaya, exile and identity in Indonesian fiction, food and transnational identities in Asian Australian women’s life-writing, and most recently on Malayan women’s narratives about their travels in late imperial England. Her current research interests include 20th-century and contemporary women’s writing from Asia, travel writing as colonial discourse, and notions of spatiality and the nation in travel narratives from Malaya/Malaysia.
Area of Specialisation
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Arts and Culture ~ Post and Colonial and Global Culture Studies - Doctor of Philosophy (Postcolonial Literature in English Language)
Professional Membership
- 2009 - 2024 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Life Member), Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA)
- 2018 - 2019 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Association for Asian Studies
- 2022 - 2024 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Postcolonial Studies Association
Teaching Responsibilities
| COMPARATIVE LITERATURE | 2025/2026 |
| CONTEMPORARY MALAYSIAN AND SINGAPOREAN NARRATIVES | 2026/2027 2025/2026 2024/2025 |
| ENGLISH LITERATURE I | 2007/2008 |
| ENGLISH LITERATURE III | 2006/2007 2005/2006 |
| ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY | 2022/2023 2021/2022 |
| FINAL YEAR PROJECT I | 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 |
| FINAL YEAR PROJECT II | 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 |
| INDUSTRIAL TRAINING | 2024/2025 2021/2022 |
| ISLAMIC LITERATURE | 2006/2007 |
| ISSUES IN WORLD LITERATURE | 2020/2021 |
| LANGUAGE FOR OCCUPATIONAL PURPOSES | 2008/2009 2004/2005 |
| LITERARY GENRES I: DRAMA AND POETRY | 2017/2018 |
| LITERARY GENRES II : INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA | 2017/2018 2012/2013 2007/2008 2006/2007 2005/2006 2004/2005 |
| LITERARY GENRES II: THE NOVEL & THE SHORT STORY | 2019/2020 |
| LITERARY GENRES III:THE NOVEL & SHORT STORY | 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013 2008/2009 2004/2005 |
| MALAYSIAN AND SINGAPOREAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | 2023/2024 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 |
| RESEARCH PAPER 1 | 2023/2024 2022/2023 |
| SHAKESPEARE IN HIS AGE AND IN MODERN CONTEXT | 2021/2022 2018/2019 2017/2018 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 |
| SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 |
| TOPICS IN ISLAMIC LITERATURE | 2008/2009 |
| TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE | 2023/2024 |
| WOMEN IN ASIAN LITERATURE | 2024/2025 2022/2023 2021/2022 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013 |
| WORLD LITERATURE 2: WOMEN?S WRITING AROUND THE WORLD | 2018/2019 |
| WORLD LITERATURE II : WOMEN'S WRITING AROUND THE WORLD | 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 |
| WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2007/2008 |
| WORLD LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION | 2023/2024 |
Supervision
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Nations-Of-Intent In P.Ramlee'S Film Adaptations Of The Thousand And One Nights.
Ph.D
Completed
2024
Main Supervisor
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A Metamodern Analysis Of Selected Early Twenty-First Century British Post-Disaster Young Adult Novels.
Ph.D
Completed
2023
Co-supervisor
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A Comparative Study Of Trauma And Memory In Selected Partition Novels From India And Palestine.
Ph.D
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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Voices From The Shadows: Remembering Southeast Asian Comfort Women And Their Narratives Of Survival During And After The Japanese Occupation.
Ph.D
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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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
Co-supervisor
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Comparative Ecocriticism: Resource Extraction In Selected South Asian And Southeast Asian Novels In English.
Ph.D
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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Happiness In Death Of A Salesman (1949) By Arthur Miller And Tonight, The Turtles Cry (1994) By Noordin Hassan: A Comparative Analysis.
Master
Completed
2021
Co-supervisor
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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
Main Supervisor
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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
Co-supervisor
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The Lofty Eyes: A Study Of V.S. Naipal'S Postcolonial And Tourism In Among The Believers: An Islamic Journey And Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among Converted Peoples.
Master
Completed
2017
Co-supervisor
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Orientalism: A Critical Analysis Of Muslim Characters In Tamburlaine The Great And Jewish Characters In The Jew Of Malta
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Master
Completed
2015
Main Supervisor
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Villain Archetype In Selected Walt Disney Animated Movies.
Master
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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Research Projects
Completed
| 2020 - 2020 | Socio-Economic Report Covid-19: Social Cohesion and Community Resilience (Citizenship/nationality) |
| 2016 - 2019 | A Study on Postcolonial Malaysian Women's Life-Writing: Spatiality, Identity, and Nation |
| 2016 - 2018 | Muslim Women Visionaries: Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Adibah Amin |
| 2014 - 2015 | A Preliminary Survey on Employees' Expectation of IIUM Bachelor of Human Sciences (English Language & Literature) / BENL Graduates |
On-Going
| 2025 - Present | Constructing a Collective Memory of Surviving Gendered Violence: A Study of Contemporary Southeast Asian Writings on 'Comfort Women' |