Mohammad A. Quayum

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Mohammad A. Quayum
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Quayum in 2015
Born (1954-06-30) 30 June 1954 (age 69)
NationalityBangladeshi, Australian
Occupation(s)academic, writer

Mohammad A. Quayum (born 30 June 1954) is an academic, writer, editor, critic and translator.

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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, [1] 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 , [2] 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 (now Journal of Postcolonial Writing ). [3] 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 [4] and of the Bengali poet and Asia's first Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. [5]

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References

  1. mohammad a. quayum. "Mohammad A. Quayum | International Islamic University Malaysia - Academia.edu". Iium.academia.edu. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  2. "Editorial Board". Asiatic.iium.edu.my. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  3. Editorial board (1998)World Literature Written in English Volume 37, Issue 1–2, January 1998, pages ebi-ebii
  4. Shridhar, Rajeev and Holden, Philip (2010) The Routledge concise history of Southeast Asian writing in English, Taylor & Francis (see p. 248)
  5. Tripura, Naba Bikram Kishore (17 September 2011). "Humble life and small miseries – Rabindranath Tagore; Selected Short Stories by Dr Mohammad A. Quayum". The Daily Star (Book review).

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