Mohammad A. Quayum


Mohammad A. Quayum is an academic, writer, editor, critic and translator.

Life

Quayum was born in Gopalganj, Bangladesh on 30 June 1954. He has taught at universities in Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and the US, and is currently Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia, and adjunct professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, and School of Education at the University of South Australia.
He is the founding editor of Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, and has to date published 34 books and more than 140 journal articles, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries in the areas of American literature, Bengali literature and Southeast Asian literature. Between 1993 and 2000 he served as co-editor of the journal World Literature Written in English. He is on the advisory board of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Transnational Literature, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, Writing Today: International Journal of Studies in English and The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is also on the editorial board of The Literary Encyclopedia.
Quayum is regarded as a leading critic of Malaysian-Singaporean literature and of the Bengali poet and Asia's first Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore.

Selected books

AuthoredBeyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 2014..One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English.Kuala Lumpur: Marshall Cavendish, 2007. Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. .Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women's Writing in English 1940s–1990s. Malaysia: IIUM Press, 2001 and 2003.. Dictionary of Literary Terms. Kuala Lumpur: Prentice Hall, 2000..
TranslatedAtiqur Rahman: Selected Poems. Dhaka: Bangla Prakash, 2017.. The Revolutionary. Dhaka: Nymphea Press, 2016.. Rabindranath Tagore: The Ruined Nest and Other Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2014..The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain . Leiden, New York: Brill, 2013.. Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories. New Delhi: Macmillan, 2011..
EditedBangladeshi Literature in English: Critical Essays and Interviews. London: Routledge, 2024.. The Postcolonial Millennium: New Directions in Malaysian Literature in English. London: Routledge, 2024.. Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism. Singapore: Springer, 2021.. Bangladeshi Literature in English: A Critical Anthology. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2021.. Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance. UK: Routledge, 2020.. Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020)..Religion, Culture, Society: Readings in the Humanities and Revealed Knowledge. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2017.. A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2016.. Twenty-two New Asian Short Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2016..The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore. New Delhi: Orient Longman..Imagined Communities Revisited: Critical Essays on Asia-Pacific Literatures and Cultures. Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2011.. A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2010..Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature. Singapore: National Library Board in partnership with Singapore Arts Council, 2009.. Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets, Novelists and Dramatists. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2007..The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia. Penguin Books, 2002..Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002.. Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2001.. Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. New Delhi: B.R. Publishing, 2000.. In Blue Silk Girdle: Stories from Malaysia and Singapore. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 1998..
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