Md Mahmudul Hasan

I joined the Department of English Language and Literature at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) on June 1, 2010. The courses I have taught at IIUM include South Asian Literature in English, Islamic Literature in English, Twentieth-Century British Literature, Islam and English Studies, World Literature, and Women’s Writing Around the World. I have completed supervising five PhD, nine Masters, and a number of FYP theses mainly in the fields of English, postcolonial/global, Muslim diasporic, and feminist literature. My work at IIUM manifests an interplay between Islam and English and postcolonial studies.

I received pre-university education under the Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board where the curriculum included courses in Arabic and Islamic studies along with more general subjects. My twelve-year madrasah education helped me lay the foundation of my knowledge of Islam as well as Arabic and Urdu languages, along with Bangla and English.

Since completing a PhD in comparative/global literature at Portsmouth (UK), I have taught at the University of Dhaka (3 years) and IIUM (14 years) in addition to doing a postdoctoral stint at Heidelberg in Germany. I have presented papers at conferences held in the USA, UK, Australia, Japan, Canada, Malta, and other countries. I have published in the fields of feminist, postcolonial, Islamic, South Asian, and Muslim diasporic literature as well as Islam and English studies with presses such as the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Brill, Johns Hopkins University Press, University of Florida Press, IIIT, IIUM, Orient BlackSwan, Routledge, SAGE, Wiley-Blackwell, and others. I guest-edited (with Mohammad A. Quayum of Flinders University) “Special Focus: Bangladeshi Literature in English,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge), 58:6, 2022. During my tenure at the University of Dhaka, I edited Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities) and worked as an English-language editor and translator (Bangla to English) for the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh’s landmark Banglapedia and Cultural Survey of Bangladesh projects. Since 2020, I have been editing the Scopus- and Web of Science-indexed journal Asiatic (2024 Best IIUM Journal and Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory): https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/issue/archive