Dr. Aimillia has academic qualifications from both sides of the Atlantic , namely the United States and the United Kingdom and, hence, has benefitted from two different systems of higher education. She has worked in IIUM for twenty years and coordinates the postgraduate English literary studies programme for her department. Her specialization includes British literature, in particular, Orientalism in British Literature. Her interests have also grown to include comparative literature, literary criticism and Malaysian Literature in English. She has produced articles for top-ranking journals such as Bronte Studies and Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy and Axiology as well as for the E-Journal for Perintis and Intellectual Discourse amongst others. She is currently co-editing a book on Islamicisation of English Literature.A member of Modern Languages Association (MLA) and Malaysian English Language Teacher Association as well as Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA), she is also a member of the Editorial Board for Intellectual Discourse.
She has presented papers at the International Conference for Comparative Literature (ICLA) held at the University of Sorbonne, France as well as at a seminar at Keele University, United Kingdom. Her earlier research interest had led her to present at The Soutwest Symposium, held at the Arizona State University. These are in addition to papers presented all over Malaysia.
Dr. Aimillia Mohd Ramli is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences.

• 2013 - 2016 : Member of Profesional Body / Association, MLA (Modern Language Association)
• 2014 - 2020 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), MELTA (Malaysian English Language Teaching Association)
• 2014 - 2030 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (member), AVSA (Australasian Victorian Studies Association)

19TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE	2022/2023 2020/2021 2018/2019 2017/2018
19TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL	2017/2018
19TH CENTURY ENGLISH POETRY AND CRITICAL PROSE	2017/2018 2016/2017
20TH CENTURY AMERICAN literature	2024/2025
20TH CENTURY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE	2025/2026 2018/2019
20TH CENTURY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE	2017/2018 2016/2017
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY	2017/2018
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEOWULF TO JOHNSON	2017/2018 2016/2017
FILM AND PHILOSOPHY	2025/2026
FILM AS LITERATURE	2024/2025
FINAL YEAR PROJECT I	2025/2026 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	2024/2025
LITERARY CRITICISM	2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017
LITERATURE AND EMPIRE	2025/2026
LITERATURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT	2025/2026 2024/2025
MALAYSIAN AND SINGAPOREAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH	2018/2019
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY	2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022
RESEARCH PAPER 1	2022/2023 2020/2021
RESEARCH PAPER 1 (LITERARY STUDIES)	2017/2018 2016/2017
ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN LITERATURE	2023/2024
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ISSUES, POLICIES AND PRACTICES	2020/2021

The Concept Of Happiness In Shakespearean Comedies: An Islamic Interpretation With Special Reference To The Philosophy Of Al-Attas And Al- Ghazali. Ph.D Completed 2025 Co-supervisor

A Metamodern Analysis Of Selected Early Twenty-First Century British Post-Disaster Young Adult Novels. Ph.D Completed 2023 Co-supervisor

''A Tower Of Light In An Ocean Of Darkness" : Reading The Poetry Of Robert Browning From The Islamic Perspective. Ph.D Completed 2022 Co-supervisor

Representations Of Muslims In Selected Novels By Marmaduke Pickthall. Ph.D Completed 2017 Main Supervisor

Transgression In Shakespeare’S Major Tragedies From The Perspective Of Perfectionism. Ph.D In Progress Main Supervisor

Intercultural Shakespeare in Bangladesh from 1972 to 2020. Intercultural Shakespeare In Bangladesh From 1972 To 2020. Ph.D In Progress Co-supervisor

Challenging Official Malaysian Identity: Islamic Perspectives On Selected Contemporary Malaysian Novels. Ph.D In Progress Co-supervisor

Normalization Of Violence In Selected Hollywood Films: The Study Of The Addams Family (1990) And Addams Family Values By Barry Sonnenfeld. Master Completed 2023 Main Supervisor

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 Main Supervisor

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 Main Supervisor

Islamic Adaptation Of Classical Western Fairy Tales: A Study Of Selected Works Of Gilani-Williams . Master Completed 2021 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 Co-supervisor

A Study Of Magic Realism And Storytelling In Salman Rushdie'S Haroun And The Sea Of Stories (1990) And Luka And The Fire Of Life (2010). Master Completed 2018 Main Supervisor

A Study Of Magic Realism And Storytelling In Salman Rushdie'S Haroun And The Sea Of Stories (1990) And Luka And The Fire Of Life (2010). Master Completed 2018 Main Supervisor

A Study Of ‘Panopticism’ In Adibah Amin’S Selected English Prose Writings. Master Completed 2017 Co-supervisor

The Bildungsroman Of Diasporic Muslim Women: A Study Of Mohja Kahf'S The Girl In The Tangerine Scarf (2006) And Umm Zakiyyah'S Realities Of Submission (2008). Master Completed 2017 Co-supervisor

Convert Experiences: A Study Of The Dialogical Self In Lena Winfrey Seder'S The Metamorphosis Of A Muslim: Autobiography Of My Convesion And Kristiane Backer'S From Mtv To Mecca: How Inspired My Life. Master Completed 2017 Co-supervisor

Resilience And Fortitude Of Migrants In Two Modernist Writings: John Steinbeck’S The Grapes Of Wrath And Isabel Wilkerson’S The Warmth Of Other Suns. Master Completed 2016 Main Supervisor

Gender Representation In Selected Children Stories Of K. S. Maniam. Master Completed 2013 Main Supervisor

No Title. Master Completed 2012 Main Supervisor

Multiculturalism In Malaysian Children'S Literature In English: A Case Study Of K.S. Maniam'S Top Winner (2005) And Shirley Lim'S Princess Shawl (2008). Master Completed 2012 Main Supervisor

The Male Perspective On The "New Women": An Analysis Of Grant Allen'S The Woman Who Did (1895) The Women (1893). Master Completed 2010 Main Supervisor

Completed

2021 - 2023	ONLINE POETRY WRITING PROGRAMME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERACY AND CREATIVITY IN UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND ORPHANS
2018 - 2018	Islamicisation of Knowledge and English Literary Studies in the Age of Islamophobia and Westernophobia
2016 - 2019	Exploring Magical Realism in Children's Literature- Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) and Luka and the Fire of Life (2011) by Salman Rushdie
2013 - 2016	A Study of Romanticism and Modernism in English Literature from an Islamic Perspective
2012 - 2013	From Decolonising to Islamicing The Study of English Literature: An Argument for A Comparative Paradigm
2009 - 2011	Multiculturalism in Malaysian Short Stories in English

On-Going

2025 - Present	BUDI: Cultivating Environmental Ethics through Malay Pantuns and Proverbs
2010 - Present	Malaysian Literature & Culture Research Unit (MLCRU)

Articles

2020	"Self-sacrifice may be quite wrong": women's education and finances in The Odd Women (1893) by George Gissing. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 9 (5) pp. 119-126
2020	Bayesian hierarchical growth model for experimental data on the effectiveness of an incentive-based weight reduction method. Psychology and Education, 57 (8) pp. 1227-1241
2020	Mohd. Kamal Hassan, Salam Kasih dari ayahanda dan kekandamu. Kuala Lumpur: ITBM, 2017. 87 pp. ISBN 978-967-460-687-9. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 14 (2) pp. 117-120
2020	The alchemy of happiness in Noordin Hassan's "Tonight, The Turtles Cry". Malay Literature, 33 (1) pp. 83-98
2019	Complementary log-log with random effect model using Malaysian graduate employability data. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 7 (6) pp. 219-225
2019	The real in the magic: a study of magic realism in Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the sea of stories (1990). Kemanusian: The Asian Journal of Humanities, 26 (2) pp. 123-139
2018	Salman Rushdie's luka and the fire of life (2010). Journal of Language and Communication, 5 (2) pp. 251-262
2018	The study of English literature from tawhidic perspective = Pengajian sastera Inggeris menurut perspektif tawhid. Journal of Islam in Asia, 15 (3: Special Issue: Integration of Islamic Revealed Knowledge into Humanities and Social Sciences) pp. 337-355
2017	The Kabyles in late nineteenth-century fictional and factual writings by Grant Allen (1848–1899). ANQ - Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews, 30 (4) pp. 222-228
2016	Imagination and intuition in the poetic philosophies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Muhammad Iqbal. World Literature Studies, 8 (1) pp. 98-111
2015	The concept of social justice in selected novels by Hamka = Konsep keadilan sosial dalam novel terpilih karya Hamka. Malay Literature, 38 (1) pp. 1-18
2013	Decolonizing the study of English literature in a Muslim-Malaysian context: an argument for a spiritual-based comparative paradigm. Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, 10 (1) pp. 99-118
2011	Contemporary criticism on the representation of female travellers of the Ottoman harem in the 19th century: a review. Intellectual Discourse, 19 () pp. 263-279
2010	From Pasha to Cleopatra and Vashti: the oriental other in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette. Bronte Studies, 35 (2) pp. 118-127
2009	“Licentious Barbarians”: representations of North African Muslims in Britain. Intellectual Discourse, 17 (1) pp. 43-63

Conference or Workshop Items

2017	Viewing and reviewing the city from romantic to postmodern lenses: An analysis of 5 poems on Kuala Lumpur. In: The 17th Biennial Asiapac Symposium of Literature and Culture,
2015	Racial extinction and regeneration: representation of North Africa in the factual and fictional writings of Grant Allen. In: One Day Conference on Africa (ICAFRICA2015),
2015	Spinning the cultural tale: multiculturalism in K. S. Maniam's top winner . In: International Conference on Languages (ICL 2015),
2014	The study of English literature from a Tawhidic framework. In: Oasis International Conference on Islamic Education (OICIE 2014),
2013	Poetic inspiration in the philosophies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Muhammad Iqbal . In: 20th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association,
2013	Proposed English education materials for Muslim literary critics. In: 1st World Congress on Integration and Islamicisation of Acquired Human Knowledge (FWCII 2013),
2012	A Comparative study between Muhammad Iqbal’s and Robert Browning’s Concerns with free-will versus determinism within the contexts of aestheticism and ethics . In: The 7th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Organised by,
2012	Decolonising and Islamicising the study of English Literature: an argument for a comparative paradigm. In: International Conference on Colonialism and Decolonization: Challenges and Prospects ICCD 2012,
2011	“What is the moral of this story?”: morality, ethical reading and Islamic reading of Karim Raslan’s “neighbours” . In: 2nd International Conference on Islamic Education (ICIEd 2011),
2011	"Straying imagination, righteous intuition": the English romantic movement and philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938). In: INCOH 2011 (International Conference on Humanities 2011),
2010	From Pasha to Cleopatra and Vashti: the Oriental Other in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette . In: IRIEE 2011,
2010	Narrating 1Malaysia: nationalism and patriotism in Malaysian literature written in English. In: Seminar on 1Malaysia,
2009	Multiculturalism in Malaysian short stories written in English (1966-2009). In: International Conference on Development 2009 (ICO2009),

Books

2024	Dzulkifli Abdul Razak and his evolving concepts of higher education. IIUM Press, ISBN: 978-967-491-184-3
2017	Representations of orientals in selected novels by Marmaduke Pickthall. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-418-766-8
2016	Islamicisation of knowledge and English literary studies: in the age of Islamophobia and Westernophobhia. One Global Publications Sdn. Bhd. and The International Institute of Islamic Thought, ISBN: 978-967-14480-0-7

Book Sections

2016	Free-will as self assertion: a comparative study of selected poems by Muhammad Iqbal and Robert Browning. In: One Global Publications Sdn. Bhd. in collaboration with The International Institute of Islamic Thought, ISBN: 978-967-14480-0-7, pp. 92-111
2011	"Narrating 1Malaysia": nationalism in Malaysian literature in English. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674181468, pp. 73-82