DR. SHARIFAH AISHAH BINTI OSMAN
Department of English
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Dr. Sharifah Aishah Osman is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Boston University, U.S.A. Her areas of expertise are Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Malaysia, and Nineteenth-century British Literature. She also has research interests in women’s writings, feminist youth literature, and folklore studies. She has published in all these fields, both in edited books, as well as in international journals such as Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Southeast Asian Review of English (SARE). She has presented numerous papers in international conferences, where she often promotes the works of authors of youth literature from Malaysia. She also serves as peer reviewer for a number of international journals, two of which are Scopus-indexed. Her current research projects examine the role of feminist folktales and folk tale adaptations in Malaysian youth literature. She welcomes research students working on any aspect of youth literature (especially in Asia), as well as British women's writings from the nineteenth-century. |
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Jom Kita Bincang (let?s Talk About It): Children?s Literature On Sustainability, Health, And Social Issues |
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Feminist Narratives And Folktale Adaptations In Malaysian Children's And Young Adult Literature |
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"of Curses, Nenek Kebayan And Old Wives' Tales": Malaysian Folktales, Myths And Legends As Literary And Cultural Heritage |
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Hamra and the Jungle of Memories
Review of Hanna Alkaf's Hamra and the Jungle of Memories (2023)
Beyond Survival: Narratives of Empowerment and Childhood Agency in Malaysian Youth Literature
Beyond Survival: Narratives of Empowerment and Childhood Agency in Malaysian Youth Literature
The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Challenges and Contestations - South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora. Vol 2.
The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Changing Perceptions in a New Age - East Asia. Vol 1.
The Principal Girl Redux: Feminist Tales from Asia
The Principal Girl Redux: Feminist Tales from Asia
“We’ve been there, and we made it through”: Representations of Family Resilience in Contemporary Malaysian Youth Literature and Film
Reimagining Girlhood in Contemporary Malaysian Youth Literature
Re(con)figuring the Nenek Kebayan through Folktale Adaptation: Malaysian Folktales as Literary and Cultural Heritage.
Folktale Adaptation and Female Agency: Reconfigurations of the Mahsuri Legend in Selected Contemporary Malaysian Young Adult Fiction