Name Mohammad Quayum | Role Writer | |
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Books One Sky Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English, Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism Similar People Benjamin Taylor, Harold Bloom, Saul Bellow |
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 taught at universities in Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Singapore, and is currently Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia, and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law at Flinders University, Australia. He is the founding editor of Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, and has published 31 books to date in various areas of literature. Between 1993 and 2000 he served as co-editor of the journal World Literature Written in English (now Journal of Postcolonial Writing). He is on the advisory board of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Transnational Literature, Diliman Humanities (the Philippines), 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.
Education
Quayum obtained his B.A. Hons and M.A. degrees in English Literature from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He earned a second master's degree with First Class and Distinction from Lakehead University, Canada, in 1984. In 1991 Quayum was awarded the Ph.D. degree by Flinders University, Australia for writing a thesis entitled, "Saul Bellow in the Emerson-Whitman Tradition: A Study of His Later Novels in the Light of American Transcendentalism," which was later published in a modified form as Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism by Peter Lang, New York, in its Studies in American Jewish Literature Series, in 2004. His thesis was examined by three eminent Saul Bellow scholars: Professor Daniel Walden, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Professor Leila Goldman, Michigan State University, USA; and Professor Gloria Cronin, Brigham Young University, USA.
Publications
Quayum has published more than 30 books with leading publishers such as Brill Publishing, Macmillan India, Marshall Cavendish International, Orient Longman, Pearson Education, Penguin Books, Peter Lang, Singapore National Library Board and Silverfish Books. He is also the author of more than 80 research articles in literature in journals such as Asian Studies Review, American Studies International, CRNLE Journal, Crossroads: Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, English Studies in Africa, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Human Values, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of South Asian Literature, Kunapipi, MELUS, Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation, New Literatures Review, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Notes on Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial Text, Saul Bellow Journal, South Asia Research, South Asian Review, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Transnational Literature, Wasafiri, Writers in Conversation and World Literature Written in English. Quayum has also published numerous book chapters and encyclopedia entries.
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