Professor Mohammad Quayum

Professor Mohammad A. Quayum (PhD, Flinders) is a full-time researcher and Honorary Professor (with full academic status) at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. He has previously taught at the International Islamic University Malaysia, the State University of New York at Binghamton, University Putra Malaysia, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), and the University of Chittagong (Bangladesh). An author, editor, and translator of over 40 books, Quayum has published more than 130 journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopaedia entries in the fields of American, Bengali, and Asian Anglophone literature. His recent book publications include Rabindranath Tagore's Journey as an Educator (ed.; Routledge, 2023), Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism (ed.; Springer, 2021), Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism (ed.; Routledge, 2020), Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion (ed.; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (ed.; Orient Longman, 2017), One Sky, Many Horizons: Critical Essays on Malaysian Literature in English (Marshall Cavendish Asia, 2007, 2014), and Beyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore (Bangla Academy, 2014). Quayum is the curator and editor of a Festschrift for the Asian American poet Shirley Geok-lin Lim, "Festschrift: The Poetry and Poetics of Shirley Geok-lin Lim," published in the December 2019 issue (10.2) of the Journal of Transnational American Studies (https://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas/10/2; Stanford University and UC Santa Barbara), and co-editor of a second festschrift, Confluence of Words and Worlds (UPL, Dhaka, forthcoming) in honour of Bangladeshi academic, writer, and critic Professor Niaz Zaman. He is the founding editor (2007-20) of Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes (indexed in Scopus and WoS) and a former editor of World Literature Written in English (Oxford University Press). He also serves on the advisory boards of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Taylor and Francis), Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State UP), Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism (National University of Singapore), Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities (Universiti Sains Malaysia), Crossings: A Journal of English Studies (ULAB, Bangladesh), Critical Insights (Notre Dame University, Bangladesh), and Transnational Literature (UK, Australia).