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Associate Professor Faridah Noor Mohd Noor, Ph.D.

PhD (Academic Discourse), University of Malaya (2001), MA (English), Iowa State University, USA (1985), BA (TESOL) University of Northern Iowa, USA (1983).

Associate Professor Faridah Noor Mohd. Noor began her academic career at the University of Malaya in 1987.  She has offered courses and supervised over 30 postgraduates in the areas of ESL, Sociolinguistics, Gender and Discourse.  She is the Academic Advisor to the English Studies Programme at the International Islamic College University Selangor (KUIS) since 201.  She has experience in holding administrative posts at the University, including the Director of the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue and the Head of English Language Department, Deputy Deans for Undergraduate Studies and Research and Development at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. She is a panel member at the national level of E-Science grants and Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS). 

She was a member of the founding committee to set up UM’s Centre for Malaysian Indigenous Studies.  Since then she has diversified her research interests to include ethnolinguistics, cultural heritage and indigenous cultural studies.  She works closely with the Mah Meri community of Carey Island, Selangor, on the oral tradition and digitisation of Mah Meri masks.  Her work in digital humanities showcases multidisciplinary cultural heritage projects to promote the preservation of cultural heritage and engagement of youths such as the programmes funded by TEIN-CC and ASEAN.  She was invited speaker for UNESCO’s project “One Day in Asia” and Connect Asia's “Building a Green Society’ as a co-presenter with UNESCO’s Green Ambassador, Herbie Hancock. 

At the international level, she is the Chair of the eCulture Working Group (WG) for Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) and was involved as Co-Chair since its ratification in 2006.    She has played a key role in expanding eCulture activities and enabled international collaboration for cyber performances (CPs) for APAN and MYREN’s eCulture and DCHH Working Groups, respectively.  She has coordinated for Malaysian and international stages in Korea and Taiwan teaming with the National Research and Education Network (NRENs) of Brazil, Czech Republic, Korea, India, Italy, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden,  Taiwan, Thailandand Vietnam as well as Internet 2, KISTI, KAIST, UM, UPM and USM as partners in separate CPs.  The inanugural CP was from streamed live from Cyberjaya to Ha Long Bay in 2006 and the launch of MYREN-X held at the University of Malaya in October 2017as the latest in the series.  She is now a Co-Investigator of an international Asi@Connect funding on tech-culture fusion platform training programs for cyber performances.

She believes that knowledge is power to be shared.  Her contribution to society is via charity and community engagement through her research and active participation in NGOs.  She is the Vice-Chairman of Malaysian Oral History Asscociation (PSLM) and President of the University Women’s Association (UWA).