Curriculum Vitae
BIOGRAPHY
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. Her work is situated at the intersections of literary studies, postcolonial theory, and cultural studies, with a focus on cultural identity and issues of diaspora, difference, representation, and power. She is the recipient of various awards, including the Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship Award, which she took up at the University of Leeds, UK, and Fulbright Fellowships at the University of Northern Illinois and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA. In addition to conducting research at the University of Michigan, she was also invited to develop and teach a course on Malaysian Literature in English. She has participated in international research projects and her articles have appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Critical Asian Studies, Ethnicities, and Cultural Dynamics. She has also edited and co-edited several books, the most recent of which is Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film: Beyond East and West (Routledge, 2021). She is Editor-in-Chief of SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English and serves on the editorial board of several journals and book series. Sharmani is regularly invited to present keynotes and plenaries, at events within and beyond Malaysia, and has delivered public lectures in many countries including Indonesia, Spain, India, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Japan, Australia, and the USA.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
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POSTCOLONIAL LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIESin particular Malaysian, Asian-American and British-Asian literatures; diasporic and transnational writings; cosmopolitanism; cultural translation; critical theory, cultural globalization
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
- PhD, (Postcolonial Studies)Leeds University, Leeds, UK
- MA, (Postcolonial Studies)Universiti Malaya (UM)
- BA, (Kesusasteraan Bahasa Inggeris)Universiti Malaya (UM)
AWARD AND STEWARDSHIP
- Inaugural Lecture, "The Radical Potential of Literature: Nation as Narration"Universiti Malaya, 2020 (National)
- Peer Expert, Southeast and East Asian Literatures SeriesPalgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, 2020 (International)
- NEWTON-UNGKU OMAR FUND (NUOF): APPOINTMENT AS EVALUATION PANEL FOR THE MOBILITY GRANTS (SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES)Academy of Sciences Malaysia, 2018 (National)
- VISITING PROFESSORFACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITAS BRAWIJAYA, 2018 (International)
- Interviewed on NST, "Gaining Diverse Perspectives and Skills through Literary Studies"New Straits Times Press, 2017 (National)
- University of Malaya Excellent Service Award 2017University of Malaya, 2017 (University)
- Interviewed on BFM for "The Relevance of Shakespeare Studies Today"BFM Radio Station, 2016 (National)
- Expert on Literature and LanguageUniversity of Warmadewa, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 2016 (International)
- International Editorial Board MemberE-Tropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 2016 (International)
- Editorial Review Board, Series on "Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches"Rowman & Littlefield, UK, 2016 (International)
- Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, March - July 2014University of Michigan, USA, 2014 (International)
- Editorial Board Member, "TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia"Cambridge University Press Journal, 2013 (International)
- Visiting Fulbright Scholar, University of Michigan, USA (1 September 2013 - 28 February 2014)University of Michigan, 2013 (International)
- Fulbright Malaysia Scholar Award (Malaysia) 2013/2014Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), US State Government, 2013 (International)
- UM EXCELLENCE AWARD, 2012 (University)
- University of Malaya Excellence Award -- Best Lecturer (Arts & Social Sciences) 2012University of Malaya, 2012 (University)
- EXCELLENCE SERVICE AWARDUniversity of Malaya, 2011 (University)
- University of Malaya Excellent Service Award 2011University of Malaya, 2011 (University)
- Guest LecturerYogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2011 (International)
- KHIDMAT SETIA 20 AWARDUniversity of Malaya, 2010 (University)
- University of Malaya Loyal Service Award 2010University of Malaya, 2010 (University)
- CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICEUniversity of Malaya, 2003 (University)
- Fulbright American Studies Institute Award 2003Fulbright Commission and Department of State, USA, 2003 (International)
- University of Malaya Excellent Service Certificate 2003University of Malaya, 2003 (University)
- Visiting Fulbright Scholar Northern Illinois University, Illinois, USA 30 June - 12 August 2003.Fulbright Institute, USA, 2003 (International)
- Academic Staff Award 1996Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom & the Association of Commonwealth Universities,, 1996 (International)
- Commonwealth Scholar, Leeds University, United Kingdom, 1996 - 2000Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, United Kingdom, 1996 (International)
- Fellow, University of Malaya 1986-1990University of Malaya, 1986 (University)
PUBLICATIONS
Article in Journal
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia (2021). Racialisation in Malaysia: Multiracialism, multiculturalism, and the cultural politics of the possible, JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES. 52(4), 611-633. doi:10.1017/S0022463421000953
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Zargarzadeh, H., & Gabriel, S. P. (2021). 'A second Troy!' Nostos and the poetics of delirium and violence in Derek Walcott's Odyssey. Postcolonial Studies, 24(1), 122-138. doi: 10.1080/13688790.2020.1712761
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Gabriel, S. P. (2016). "Local" and "national" transformations: Cultural globalization, heterogeneity, and Malaysian literature in English, Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 51(1145-164), Article
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Gabriel, S. P. (2014). After the break: re-conceptualizing ethnicity, national identity and Malaysian-Chinese identities, Ethnic and Racial Studies. 37(7), 1211-1224
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Gabriel, S. P., Gomez, E. T., Rocha, Z. (2012). Between policy and reality: multiculturalism, the second generation, and the third space in Britain, Asia Europe Journal. 10(4), 267-285
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Gabriel, S. P. (2011). Diasporic Translocation and "The Multicultural Question" in Malaysia, Mosaic-a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 442(19-34), Article
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Gabriel, S. P. (2011). It aint where youre from, its where youre born: re-theorizing diaspora and homeland in postcolonial Malaysia, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 123(341-357), Article
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Gabriel, S. P. (2011). TRANSLATING BANGSA MALAYSIA Toward a New Cultural Politics of Malaysian-ness, Critical Asian Studies. 433(349-372), Article
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Gabriel, S. P. (2004). "Immigrant" or "post-colonial"? Towards a poetics for reading the nation in Bharati Mukherjees The Tigers Daughter, Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 39(1), 85-103
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Gabriel, S. P. (2004). Interrogating multiculturalism - Double diaspora, nation, and re-narration in Rohinton Mistrys Canadian tales, Canadian Literature. 181(27-41), Article
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Gabriel, S. P., Mukherjee, B. (2003). "Routes of identity": In conversation with Bharati Mukherjee, Ariel-a Review of International English Literature. 34(4), 125-138
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Gabriel, S. P. (2014). After the break: Re-conceptualizing ethnicity, national identity and Malaysian-Chinese identities, Ethnic and Racial Studies. 37(7), 1211-1224
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Gabriel, S. P., Gomez, E. T., Rocha, Z. (2012). Between policy and reality: Multiculturalism, the second generation, and the third space in Britain, Asia Europe Journal. 10(4), 267-28516102932 (ISSN).
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Gabriel, S. P. (2011). Diasporic translocation and "the multicultural question" in Malaysia, Mosaic. 44(2), 19-34
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Gabriel, S. P. (2011). It aint where youre from, its where youre born: Re-theorizing diaspora and homeland in postcolonial Malaysia, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 12(3), 341-357
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Gabriel, S. P. (2011). Migrations of Chineseness: In conversation with Ien Ang, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 12(1), 122-131
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Gabriel, S. P. (2011). Translating bangsa Malaysia: Toward a new cultural politics of Malaysian-ness, Critical Asian Studies. 43(3), 349-372
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Gabriel, S. P. (2005). Nation and contestation in Malaysia: Diaspora and myths of belonging in the narratives of K. S. Maniam, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 36(2), 235-248
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Gabriel, S. P. (2004). "Immigrant" or "post-colonial"? Towards a poetics for reading the nation in Bharati Mukherjees The Tigers Daughter, Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 39(1), 85-104
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Haleh Zargazadeh and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, "A Second Troy!': Nostos and the Poetics of Delirium and Violence in Derek Walcott's Odyssey", POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2021, pp. 122-138. DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2020.1712761
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Editorial: Connectedness". SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol. 57, No. 1, 2020, pp. i-iv. (SCOPUS-Indexed)
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Editorial: Light", SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol. 57, No. 2, 2020, pp. i-iv.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Obituary: K.S. Maniam, 1942-2020", THE JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE, Vol. 55, No. 2, June 2020, pp. 326-331. DOI: 10.1177/0021989420929672.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Racialization in Malaysia: Multiracialism, Multiculturalism and the Cultural Politics of the Possible" (under review)
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "The Ethical Project of Cultural Translation", "KEMANUSIAAN: The Asian Journal of Humanities", Vol, 27, No. 2, 2020, pp. 103-121. https://doi.org/10.21315/kajh2020.27.2.6
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Editorial: Openness", SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2019, pp. i-iii.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Editorial: Revisionings", SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2019, pp. i-iii.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "'Into the Light': In Conversation with K.S. Maniam," ASIATIC, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2018), pp. 137-161.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Editorial: Old Myths and New Realities", SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol. 55, No. 1, 2018, pp. i-ii.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Editorial: Sites of Possibility", SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2018, pp. i-iii.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Bharati Mukherjee, 1940-2017", THE JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE, Vol. 52, No. 2, June 2017, pp. 409-413.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Editorial: Passages and Palimpsests", SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol. 54, No. 2, December 2017, pp. i-ii.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Editorial: Transformations", SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English", Vol. 54, No. 1, July 2017, pp. i.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. Book Review. "How Chinese are you?: Adopted Chinese Youth and their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture" by Andrea Louie, ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES, Vol. 40, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 537-539.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Editorial", SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2016, p. 1.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "'Local and 'National' Transformations: Cultural Globalization, Heterogeneity and Malaysian Literature in English", THE JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 145-164. DOI: 10.1177/0021989414566517.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "'Malaysia: A Perverse Palimpsest': Response to 'The Big Question': Is Affirmative Action Necessary to Overcome Institutional Racism?" WORLD POLICY JOURNAL, Spring Issue, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2016, p. 4.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Introduction: Journeys of/toward Identity". ASIATIC, 10 (1), 2016: 284-286.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. Review of Abu Talib Ahmad, "Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia". Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2014, viii + 328 pp. ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, Volume 44, No. 1-2, pp.286-88. 2016.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "The Meaning of Race in Malaysia: Colonial, Post-colonial and Possible New Conjunctures", ETHNICITIES, Vol. 15, No. 6 (2015), pp. 782-809.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "After the Break": Re- Conceptualizing Ethnicity, National Identity and "Malaysian-Chinese" Identities, ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.859286, Vol. 37, No. 7, 2014, pp.1211-1224.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia and Fernando Rosa, "Introduction to Lived Cosmopolitanisms in Littoral Asia", in 'CULTURAL DYNAMICS: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power', Vol. 24, No. 2-3, November 2012, pp. 115-126 (published in 2013)
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. Review of 'The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East' by Shanta Nair-Venugopal (ed.), ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, Vol 41, Issue 5, 2013, pp. 534-35.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia, Gomez, Edmund Terence and Rocha, Zarine. "Between Policy and Reality: Multiculturalism, the Second Generation and the Third Space in Britain", ASIA EUROPE JOURNAL: Studies on Common Policy Challenges, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2012, pp. 267-285.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. Review of "Colony, Nation, and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature" by Eddie Tay, in POSTCOLONIAL TEXT, Vol.7 No. 3, 2012 (Open Access Journals), http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/1478 /1395
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Diasporic Translocation and 'The Multicultural Question' in Malaysia", MOSAIC: Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2011, pp.19-34.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "It Ain't Where You're From, It's Where You're Born":Re-Theorizing Diaspora and Homeland in Postcolonial Malaysia", INTER-ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES,Vol.12, No. 3, September 2011, pp. 341 - 357.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Migrations of Chineseness: In Conversation with Ien Ang", INTER-ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES,Vol. 12, No. 1, 2011, pp. 122-131.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Translating Bangsa Malaysia: Towards a New Cultural Politics of Malaysianness" CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES, Vol. 43, No. 3, September 2011, pp. 189-212.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. Review of Zawawi Ibrahim (ed.), Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak), CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Wiley-Blackwell, USA, Vol. 25, No. 1, February 2010, pp. 169-173.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. ""Recuperating Malayness: Performing Nation, Gender, and Modernity in Malaysia", PROSPECT MALAYSIA, Vol. 010, 2009, pp. 92-93 (KDNPP15955/07/2009)
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Pluralising Multiculturalism: Negotiating Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Sarawak" (Review), PROSPECT MALAYSIA, No. 011, 2009, pp. 91-93.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Recuperating Malayness: Performing Nation, Gender, and Modernity in Malaysia" (Review Essay On Khoo Gaik Cheng, Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature), LITERATURE/FILM QUARTERLY,Vol. 37, No. 3, 2009, pp. 234-236.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Routes of Identity: In Conversation with Bharati Mukherjee", ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (University of Calgary, Alberta,Canada)Vol. 34, No. 4, Oct. 2003, pp.125-38. (Accepted in 2006)
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Between Mosaic and Melting Pot: Negotiating Multiculturalism and Cultural Citizenship in Bharati Mukherjee's Narratives of Diaspora", POSTCOLONIAL TEXT (International Peer- Reviewed Open Journals System), Vol. 1, No.2,2005,http://journals.sfu.ca/pocol/index.php/pct/a rticle/view/420/147.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Migrations of Belonging: Review of Ien Ang's 'On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West'", JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, Burdwan University, Calcutta, India, April- June 2005, pp. 23-29.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Nation and Contestation in Malaysia: Diaspora and Myths of Belonging in the Narratives of K.S. Maniam", JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES, Cambridge University Press, UK, Vol. 36, No. 2, July 2005, pp. 235-48.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "The Heteroglossia of Home: Re-Routing the Boundaries of National Identity in Amitav Ghosh's 'The Shadow Lines'", JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING (Routledge, UK),Vol.41,No.1, May 2005, pp. 40- 53.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia, "Interrogating Multiculturalism: Double Diaspora, Nation, and Re-narration in Rohinton Mistry's Canadian Tales", Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, 181, Summer 2004, pp. 27-41.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Sacred and Profane: New Poetry by Salleh ben Joned" (Poems Sacred and Profane/ Sajak-Sajak Saleh by Salleh ben Joned), JOUVERT: A Journal of Postcolonial Writing (North Carolina State University, USA), Vol. 8, Issue 1, Winter/Spring 2004.
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Gabriel,Sharmani Patricia."Immigrant or Postcolonial?: Towards a Poetics for Reading the Nation in Bharati Mukherjee's 'The Tiger's Daughter'", THE JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE (Sage Publishers, UK), Vol. 39, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 85-103.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Diasporic Hybridities and the Patchwork Quilt: Contesting Nationalist History and Other Fictions in Rohinton Mistry's 'A Fine Balance'", COMMONWEALTH: Essays and Studies (Society for the Study of Commonwealth Countries, France),Vol. 25, No.2, Spring 2003, pp.83-94.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Imaginary Homelands and Diaspora: History, Nation and Contestation in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh",THE ATLANTIC LITERARY REVIEW (New Delhi, Atlantic Publishers), Vol. 4, No. 2, April-June 2003, pp.78-108.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Identity, Culture and the National Narrative: Review of Shirley Lim's 'Joss and Gold'", SOUTHEAST ASIAN REVIEW OF ENGLISH, No. 44, June 2002, pp. 87- 93.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader", Review of Mohammad A. Quayum & Peter C.Wicks (eds), ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (University of Calgary,Alberta, Canada), Vol. 33, No. 3-4, 2002, pp. 240- 42.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Tedium Aspiring to Literature: Bharati Mukherjee's 'Holder of the World'",THE CRNLE REVIEWS JOURNAL, Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinders University of South Australia, No. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 225-227.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Art in Exile: Jhabvala and Mansfield: Ralph J.Crane's 'Passages to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala' and Heather Murray's 'Double Lives: Women in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield'",THE CRNLE REVIEWS JOURNAL, Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinders University of South Australia, 1, 1993, pp. 35-37.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Parsi Epiphanies: Whabiz D. Merchant's House on the Hill: A Bombay Girlhood", THE CRNLE REVIEWS JOURNAL, Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinders University of South Australia, 1, 1993, pp. 38-42.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Samoan Delivery: All is Reality: Albert Wendt's Ola", THE CRNLE REVIEWS JOURNAL, Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinders University of South Australia, 1, 1992, pp. 23-26.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Inside the Outsider: A Portrait of the Third World Hero in Philippine Fiction in English", SOUTHEAST ASIAN REVIEW OF ENGLISH, No. 22, June 1991, pp. 28-43.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Mountain of Transfiguration: Timothy Wangusa's Upon This Mountain", THE CRNLE REVIEWS JOURNAL, Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinders University of South Australia, 1, 1991, pp. 35-40.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Of Snakes and Sages: R.K. Narayan's 'The World of Nagaraj'", THE CRNLE REVIEWS JOURNAL, Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinders University of South Australia,1, 1991, pp. 15-18.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Home at Last: A Sense of Place in V.S. Naipaul 's 'A House for Mr Biswas'", SOUTHEAST ASIAN REVIEW OF ENGLISH, Vol. 20, June 1990, pp.1-13.
Books
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia and Bernard Wilson (eds.), "Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film: Beyond East and West", Routledge: London and New York , 2021.
- Christina Suprihatin, Melani Budianta and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (eds), "Indonesian Perspectives on Gender Identities: Transnational Representations of Masculinity and Femininity", SPRINGER (on contract)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia (ed.), "Making Heritage in Malaysia: Sites, Histories, Identities", Palgrave Macmillan, London & New York, 2020.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia (with Bernard Wilson) (eds), "Asian Children's Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National and Transnational Trajectories", Palgrave Macmillan: London & New York, 2020.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia and Nicholas O. Pagan (eds), "Literature, Memory, Hegemony: East/West Crossings" (PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, London & New York, 2018) ISBN: 978-981-10-9001-1
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia and Fernando Rosa (eds) "Cosmopolitan Asia: Littoral Epistemologies of the Global South", ROUTLEDGE: LONDON & NEW YORK, 2016. ISBN-10: 1138918679 ISBN-13: 978-1138918672
- Kenedy, Robert, Margaret Greenfields, Jonathan Rollins, and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (eds), "Diasporic Identities and Spaces Between", INTER-DISCIPLINARY PRESS: Oxford, United Kingdom, 2012. (ISBN 978-1-84888-136-5)
Chapter in Books
- Bernard Wilson and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, "Resisting Orientalism", in "Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film: Beyond East and West" (eds. Gabriel, SP and Wilson, B.), Routledge: London and New York , 2021.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia and Bernard Wilson, "Convergences, Crossings, Contestations: Children s Literature and Film in Asia", in "Asian Children s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories" (eds. Bernard Wilson and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel), Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 1-25.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Asian Futures for Children's Literature: Local, National and Transnational Contexts" in 'Scholars, Speeches, and Children s Literature: Lecture Collection of Taiwan Children s Literature Research Association, 2012-19', TCLRA, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020. (in Chinese translation)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Conjuncture and Resistance: Colonial, Post-Colonial and Possible New Meanings of Race in Malaysia", in 'Race in Asia: Beyond the Western Paradigm' (Ed. Yasuko Takezawa) (under review).
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Postcolonialising Heritage and the Idea of Malaysia , in "Making Heritage in Malaysia: Sites, Histories, Identities" (Ed. Sharmani Patricia Gabriel), Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 3-52.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia and Alex Tickell. "History, Memory and Cultural Identity in the Novel of South East Asia". In Alex Tickell (Ed.) The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 10: The Novel in South and South-East Asia since 1945. Oxford University Press, UK, 2019 (ISBN: 9780198745419), pp. 398-413.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "East/West: What's At Stake?". In Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia and Nicholas O. Pagan (Eds), Literature, Memory, Hegemony: East/West Crossings (pp. 1-20). Palgrave-Macmillan. London & New York.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia & Fernando Rosa, "Asian Cosmopolitanisms: Towards Littoral Conjunctions", in 'Cosmopolitan Asia: Littoral Epistemologies of the Global South'(Eds. Gabriel, S.P. and Rosa, F), Routledge: London & New York, 2016, pp. 1-19.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "'After the Break': Re- Conceptualizing Ethnicity, National Identity and 'Malaysian-Chinese' Identities". In 'Belonging to the Nation: Generational Change, Identity and the Chinese Diaspora' (eds. Edmund Terence Gomez and Gregor Benton) Routledge: London & New York, 2015, p. 54-67.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Ee Tiang Hong", in "The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English" (eds. Ian Hamilton and Jeremey Noel Tod), Oxford University Press: Oxford & New York: 2014 (First Edition: 1996), p. 145.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Nation and Liminal Desire: Relocating Diaspora and Homeland in Postcolonial Malaysia", in Kenedy, Robert, Greenfields, Margaret, Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia, and Rollins, Jonathan (eds), "Diasporic Identities and Spaces Between", Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, United Kingdom, 2012: pp. 27-36.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "The nation/state, diaspora and literature in Malaysia", in Zawawi Ibrahim (ed.), 'Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World' (PSSM Social Science Series), Malaysian Social Science Association (MSSA) and Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD), 2012: pp. 345-69.
- Kenedy, Robert, Greenfields, Margaret, Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia, and Rollins, Jonathan (eds), "Introduction: Diasporic Identities and Spaces Between", Inter-Disciplinary Press: Oxford, United Kingdom, 2012: pp. i-xviii.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Un/Settling Malaysia: Diaspora and National Desire", in "Diasporas: Revisiting and Discovering", eds. Laura de Pretto, Gloria Macri and Catherine Wong, Inter-Disciplinary Press; Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 27-36.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Re-Routing the Boundaries of National Identity in Amitav Ghosh's 'The Shadow Lines'", in "Amitav Ghosh's 'The Shadow Lines': A Critical Companion", ed. Murari Prasad (New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2008), pp. 176-194.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Routes of Identity: In Conversation with Bharati Mukherjee", in "Contemporary Literary Criticism", Vol. 235 (CLC 235 Entry # 824854), Edited by Jeff Hunter, Thomson Gale Cengage: 2007, pp. 224-85.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "History, Nation and Contestation in Salman Rushdie's 'The Moor's Last Sigh", in 'Salman Rushdie : Critical Essays (Vol. 1)', edited by Mohit K. Ray and Rama Kundu (New Delhi, Atlantic: 2006), pp. 176 - 94.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. Entries on 'Wong Phui Nam','Lloyd Fernando', and 'Cecil Rajendra', In "The Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Literature in English" (eds Kazuo Ueda, Toshio Watanabe and Hiroshi Ebine), Tokyo: Japan, 2005.
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Hybridity, Nation, Diaspora and Representation: Masala Nationalism in Salman Rushdie's 'The Moor's Last Sigh", in 'Migrating the Texts: Hybridity as a Postcolonial Literary Construct', Alessandro Monti and John Douthwaite (eds); Turin: L Harmattan Italia (Paradoxa Series), Italy, 2003, pp. 41-76.
Other Publications
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "On Not Speaking Chinese: In Conversation with Ien Ang", OFF THE EDGE, February 2010, pp. 66- 72. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "A Timely Collection", Scholar's Choice, Sunday Star, StarMag, 8 June, 2003, p.21. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Mongrels and Migrants: Bharati Mukherjee -- Writing from the In-Between", OPTIONS2, The Edge, July 2003, pp. 14-15. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Reforming National Culture", Scholar's Choice, Sunday Star, StarMag, 10 August, 2003, p. 17. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Sweetness and Light: Review of Poems Sacred and Profane/Sajak-Sajak Salleh" by Salleh Ben Joned, OPTIONS2, The Edge, February 2003, pp. 27-28. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "The Story of Sri Lanka: A. Sivanandan's When Memory Dies", The New Straits Times/ Literary, 22/04/98, p. 7. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. Revelations on India: Shashi Tharoor s Show Business , The New Straits Times/ Literary, 29/11/95, p. 8. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. The Voices of Feminism: Miriam Schneir (ed) The Vintage Book of Feminism , The New Straits Times/Literary, 04/11/95, p.8. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Carving Space in a New World: Roshni Rustomji-Kerns (ed) 'Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers', The New Straits Times/Literary, 28/08/95, p. 8. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "The Many Selves of an Asian Writer: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim's 'Writing South East/Asia in English: Against the Grain' (Focus on Asian English Language Literatures),The New Straits Times/Literary, 01/03/95, p. 33. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "A Dream One is About to Remember: Amit Chaudhuri's 'Afternoon Raag'",The New Straits Times / Literary, 05/10/94, p.34. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "A Novel Affirming the Dignity of Sex: Robert Olen Butler's 'They Whisper'", The New Straits Times/Literary, 15/06/94, p.30. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "A River of Dreams Runs Through It: Ben Okri's 'Incidents at the Shrine'", The New Straits Times /Literary, 23/02/94, p. 29. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "An Angry, Daring Novel of its Time: T. Sivasankara Pillai's 'Scavenger's Son'", The New Straits Times/Literary, 27/04/94, p.32. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Awkward Virtual-Reality Account of Survival: Bharati Mukherjee's 'The Holder of the World'", The New Straits Times/Literary, 17/08/94, p. 36. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Compelling Story of Female Awakening: Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen's 'Daughters of the House', The New Straits Times/Literary, 16/11/94, p. 34. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Honest, Human, Sallehcious: Salleh Ben Joned's 'As I Please', The New Straits Times/ Books, 19/10/94, p. 24 + 40. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Recalling the Sex and Scam of the Seventies: John Updike's 'Memories of the Ford Administration', The New Straits Times/ Books, 26/03/94, p. 30. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Satisfying Sampling of British Writing: Andrew Motion and Candice (eds.), 'New Writing (3)'", The New Straits Times/ Literary,06/07/94, p.34. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "The Migrants' Isolation: Susham Bedi's 'The Fire Sacrifice'", The New Straits Times/ Literary, 20/04/94, p. 32. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "African Women's Right to Identity in Their Own Write: Charlotte Bruner's 'The Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing'", The New Straits Times/Literary, 28/07/93, p.31. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Autobio Bits by the Master of Gallows Humour: Kurt Vonnegut's 'Fates Worse than Death'", The New Straits Times/Literary, 30/06/93, p.31. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Narayan's Little Ironies: R.K. Narayan's 'The Grandmother's Tale'", The New Straits Times / Literary, 25/08/93, p. 34. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Roth & Roth Rollercoaster: Philip Roth's 'Operation Shylock'", The New Straits Times/ Books, 27/11/93. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Ruins of the Apocalypse: Micheal Ondaatje's 'The English Patient'", The New Straits Times/ Literary, 21/07/93, p. 30. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Stark Story of Spain's Religious Crisis: Tariq Ali's 'Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree'", The New Straits Times/ Books, 04/12/93, p. 34. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "The Pain of Genital Mutilation: Alice Walker's 'Possessing the Secret of Joy',The New Straits Times/Books, 11/08/93, p.33. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "What Price Idealism in a Crooked World?: John Mortimer's 'Dunster'", The New Straits Times/ Literary, 07/07/93, p.32. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "All the World's A Film: Allan Sealy's 'Hero: A Fable'", The New Straits Times/Books, 20/06/92, p. 26. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "An Entry into the Human and the Historical: Pramoedya Ananta Toer's 'House of Glass'", The New Straits Times/Literary, 05/08/92, p. 30. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Fiction of a Master Story- teller: Mario Vargas Llosa's 'The Storyteller'", The New Straits Times /Literary, 15/07/92, p. 33. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Heart of South Africa's Darkness: Nadine Gordimer's 'Crimes of Conscience'", The New Straits Times /Literary, 28/03/92, p. 34. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Immigrants in Search of Belonging: Bharati Mukherjee's 'Darkness'", The New Straits Times/Literary, 30/09/92,p.30. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Lessons of Life from the Banks of a Siamese River: Nikom Rayawa's 'High Banks, Heavy Logs'", The New Straits Times /Literary, 20/05/92, p.32. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Major Work Constructed Out of a Myth Deconstructed: Mordecai Richler's 'Solomon Gursky was Here'",The New Straits Times /Books, 29/02/92, p.24. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "On the Road to New Perceptions: Ben Okri's 'The Famished Road'", The New Straits Times /Literary, 15/04/92, pp. 32 + 33. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "The Experience of Being Arab and Female: Nawal el Saadawi's 'Death of an Ex-Minister' and 'My Travels Around the World'", The New Straits Times /Literary, 24/06/92, p. 30 + 32. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
- Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "The World According to Theroux: Paul Theroux's 'Travelling The World'", The New Straits Times/Books,03/10/92, p. 31. - Mass Media(Newspaper,Radio,Tv,Popular Magazine)
RESEARCH INTEREST
- My research interests revolve around issues of diaspora, race/ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, and multiculturalism within the ideological boundaries, cultural politics, and hegemonic discourses of the nation-state. I am particularly interested in examining the narratives and discourses of minority ethnic communities in Malaysia and have also worked on research projects that have extended these concerns to other national contexts such as the UK, Canada and the US.
PAPER PRESENTED
PLENARY SPEAKER
- KEYNOTE LECTURE, "Unity is Plurality", Online International Conference organised by the Rajasthan Association for Studies in English (RASE), Rajasthan, India., "Plurality is Unity", Online International Conference organised by the Rajasthan Association for Studies in English (RASE), Rajasthan, India., Rajasthan Association for Studies in English (RASE), Rajasthan, India. (International) (28 Nov 2020 - 29 Nov 2020)
- PLENARY LECTURE, International Conference on Hermeneutic Perspectives in Contemporary Literature, Department of English, Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India (International) (19 Mar 2020 - 20 Mar 2020)
- PLENARY LECTURE, "The Humanities and Literature in an Age of Globalization" , INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE GLOBALIZATION: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES, Organized by Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies (ISCS) and Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (OUCIP), Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. , Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies (ISCS) and Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (OUCIP), Osmania University, Hyderabad, India (International) (03 Mar 2020 - 05 Mar 2020)
- KEYNOTE LECTURE. "The Performance of Theatre and the Production and Re-Production of Identity", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON "THEATRE, DRAMATICS AND SUSTAINABLE STUDIES" (RTDS 2019), AMITY UNIVERSITY RAJASTHAN, JAIPUR, INDIA. (International) (15 Oct 2019 - 16 Oct 2019)
- PLENARY LECTURE. "CHANGE OR PRESERVATION?: TRANSLATION AS AN ETHICAL PROJECT", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS, LITERATURE AND CULTURE (ICLLIC 2019), Universiti Sains Malaysia (International) (29 Jul 2019 - 30 Jul 2019)
- KEYNOTE LECTURE, "Asian Children's Literature in a Global Age: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories", Research Workshop on "Trans/national Literature, Memory, and Childhood in Asia" organised by the Department of Taiwanese Literature of National Cheng Kung University and Taiwanese Children's Literature Research Association (TCLRA) and Sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (International) (16 Mar 2019 - 16 Mar 2019)
- KEYNOTE LECTURE, "Literature, Language, and the Global Citizen: Towards Ethical and Contemplative Literacies" , ICOLLITE 2018 International Conference on "Literacy for Global Citizens" , University of Education Bandung, Indonesia (International) (24 Oct 2018 - 25 Oct 2018)
- KEYNOTE LECTURE, "After the Original: Cultural Translation and 'The Other'", International Conference on "Translation across Cultures: Dissolving Boundaries, Creating Harmony" (ICTAC-2018) , Department of Humanities and Social Science, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. (International) (04 Oct 2018 - 06 Oct 2018)
- KEYNOTE LECTURE, "The Humanities in the Asian Century: Challenging Hegemony and the Global", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION: ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS IN ASIA, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia, Faculty of Cultural Studies (International) (27 Oct 2017 - 28 Oct 2017)
- KEYNOTE LECTURE, "From Postcolonial to Decolonial Thinking? Reflections on Literary Studies and Knowledge Production in Malaysia", International Young Scholars Symposium on Humanities and Arts (INUSHARTS) 2017, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, 28 August 2017, International Young Scholars Symposium on Humanities and Arts (INUSHARTS) 2017, Faculty of Cultural Studies (International) (28 Aug 2017 - 30 Aug 2017)
- KEYNOTE LECTURE, "The Meanings of Multiculturalism", The 2nd National Conference on "Multiculturalism in Language, Society and the Cyberworld", University of Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia, Association of English Postgraduate Students (International) (29 Apr 2017 - 29 Apr 2017)
- KEYNOTE LECTURE, "Transcultural and Transnational Representations: Nations, Spaces and Identities in Transit", 20th Culture and Power International Conference on 'New Typologies of (E/Im)Migration: Mobility and Transcultural Spaces', Santiago de Compostela, Spain, University of A Coruna, University of Santiago de Compostela, and University of Vigo (International) (08 Oct 2015 - 10 Oct 2015)
- KEYNOTE LECTURE, "Nation and Postcolonial Narration: Novel Possibilities for National (Re)Form", The 22nd International Conference on "The Role of Literature in Enhancing Humanity and National Identity" hosted by Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia, 7 November 2012., Yogyakarta State University and HISKI Indonesia (International) (07 Nov 2012 - 09 Nov 2012)
INVITED SPEAKER
- "Race, Routes and Representation: The Roma and Postcolonial Studies", International Conference on Critical Approaches to Romani Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. (International) (21 May 2020 - 23 May 2020)
- 'Race', Racialisation, and Multiracialism in Contemporary Malaysia: Toward Post-Racial Futures?" , International Seminar on "Racialization: Multiple Modalities of (In)Visibility" , Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Kyoto, Japan (International) (16 Nov 2019 - 16 Nov 2019)
- "Rerouting the Nanyang: From Diasporic Local to Transnational Imaginaries", University of Sydney, Australia. , World Literatures and the Global South Conference, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney and Peking University Australian Studies Centre (International) (23 Aug 2019 - 25 Sep 2019)
- "Trans/National Malaysian Literature: Anglophone and Sinophone Cultural Politics", Public lecture Organised by the Department of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Department of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (International) (15 Mar 2019 - 15 Mar 2019)
- "Off the Map: Water, City, Sky as Counter Cartographies" , Lit Up Asia Festival on "Water, City, Sky - Literatures Rising in Asia, past, present and future", Singapore, LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, SINGAPORE (International) (13 Oct 2018 - 14 Oct 2018)
- "The diasporic local: Trajectories of Chineseness in Sinophone and Anglophone Malaysia", The International Conference on "America's Asia, Asia's America", National University of Singapore, Organised by the US Embassy in Singapore and the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore.  (International) (13 Aug 2018 - 14 Aug 2018)
- "Literary Studies and De-Coloniality", A Conversation on Theories and Practices of De-coloniality, Cultural Centre UM and SOAS, UK (International) (13 Feb 2018 - 13 Feb 2018)
- "Universiti Malaya Workshop Contribution & Aims", Creative Cultures of Anglophone Southeast and East Asia: Mapping Literary Networks , Open University UK and Department of English, FASS, UM (International) (05 Dec 2017 - 05 Dec 2017)
- "The Location of Malaysian Literature:The Novel in English and the Transnational Writer", The State of Anglophone Malaysian Literature in the 21st Century: An ASIATIC Symposium, Monash University Malaysia & IIUM (International) (03 Nov 2017 - 03 Nov 2017)
- "The Rules of Academic Writing", Postgraduate Lectures Series, Population Studies Unit, Universiti Malaya (University) (31 May 2017 - 31 May 2017)
- Moderator, Panel on Literature and Popular Culture, The Tenth International Conference on Malaysia-Indonesia Relations (PAHMI 10), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya (International) (16 Aug 2016 - 18 Aug 2016)
- "Enhancing English Language Proficiency through Literature", Guest Lecture, Faculty of Letters, University of Warmadewa, Denpasar, Bali (International) (23 Jul 2016 - 23 Jul 2016)
- "Multiculturalism in ASEAN", Asean Community Symposium Malaysia, The Indonesia Youth Leader Alliance (IYLA) and the Global Network Club (GNC), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya (International) (04 May 2016 - 04 May 2016)
- Discussant and Moderator, "All I Need Is Love? Nation, Affect and Aversion in a Post-Imagined-Community Asia", National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 2015 Monash-Asia Institute (MAI) Annual International Conference, Organized by: Graduate Institute of Mass Communication National Taiwan Normal University & Monash Asia Institute, Monash University (International) (23 Oct 2015 - 24 Oct 2015)
- "Para-Sites of Knowledge Construction: Towards a Malaysian Cultural Studies", Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2015 on "UNDERCURRENTS: UNEARTHING HIDDEN SOCIAL AND DISCURSIVE PRACTICES", Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (International) (07 Aug 2015 - 09 Aug 2015)
- Chairperson and Discussant, Panel on Literature, Cultural Encounters:Asian Perspectives on Film, Literature and Society, University of Nottingham Malaysia and Yonsei University, Korea (International) (15 May 2015)
- "Issues on the Literature Review and Theoretical Framework", Postgraduate Research Methodology Workshop, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya (19 Jan 2015)
- "The Cultural Politics of 'Beauty' in Southeast Asia: A Postcolonial Perspective", Lecture presented at Monash University, Malaysia, 27 August 2014., Dissent Enclave & Monash University Malaysia (International) (27 Aug 2014)
- "Beyond Pluralism: Rethinking Race in Malaysia", Lecture presented at Friday at Noon Lecture Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 21 March 2014., CSEAS (Centre for Southeast Asian Studies) (International) (21 Mar 2014)
- "Publishing for Success in Academia", "Postgrad Success" Workshop Series, University of Malaya (University) (17 Mar 2014)
- "Conjuring Diaspora: The Cultural Politics of Race in Malaysia", Lecture presented at Asian Studies Lecture Series, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA, 20 February 2014., Asian Studies Programme, Northern Arizona University (International) (20 Feb 2014)
- 'Writing in Style: Satisfying Examiners', Talk presented at 'PHD GOT IT' SEMINAR, Universiti Malaya, 12 June 2013., Institut Pengajian Siswazah (IPS), Universiti Malaya (University) (12 Jun 2013)
- "Rethinking Race and Racism in Malaysia: Colonial and Post-Colonial Conjunctures and Possible New Futures", Paper presented at MAI International Seminar on "Rethinking Race and Racism from Asian Experiences", University of Monash, Melbourne, Australia, 24 May 2013., Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne and Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University (International) (24 May 2013)
- "Methods of Literary Study", Social Sciences Research Methodology Workshop (University) (05 Apr 2012)
- "Publishing in WoS Journals" , International Publishing Workshop, University of Malaya, 29 November 2011. (University) (29 Nov 2011)
- 'Postcolonialism: Key Concepts and Lines of Resistance', Postcolonial Studies Seminar, Faculty of Languages & Literature, Yogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (02 Nov 2011)
- 'Language, Literature, and Politics: Doing Literary and Cultural Studies', Postcolonial Studies Seminar,Faculty of Languages and Arts, Yogyakarta State University Yogyakarta, Indonesia (01 Nov 2011)
- 'When or What is the Postcolonial?: Problematizing Postcolonialism ' , Postcolonial Studies Seminar, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Yogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (31 Oct 2011)
- "How to do Research", Social Sciences Postgraduate Research Methodology Workshop, Universiti Malaya (University) (18 Apr 2011 - 23 Apr 2011)
- "Suturing the Split in 'Malaysian-Chinese': Moving the 'Ethnic' into the 'National' in Malaysia", Paper presented at International Conference on "From Ethnic to National Identification Among Chinese Migrants' Descendants", University of Malaya, 23 March 2011., Social and Behavioural Science Research Cluster and Institute of China Studies, Universiti Malaya (International) (23 Mar 2011 - 24 Mar 2011)
- "Translating 'Race', Nation, and Bangsa Malaysia: Towards a New Cultural Politics of Malaysianness", Paper presented at the International Conference on "Postcolonial Translation", Universiti Malaya, 5 October 2009. , MACLALS (Malaysian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies)  (International) (05 Oct 2009)
- "Narrating the Nation: The Case of Malaysian Literature in English", Paper presented at the British Council Seminar on "Globalising Culture", Calcutta, India, 31 August 2004. , Forum for UK-South Asia Culture Studies & The British Council, India (International) (31 Aug 2004)
- "Diaspora as Heterotopic Space: Perspectives on Multiculturalism in Bharati Mukherjee's Asian-American Narratives", Paper presented at the ALSC International Conference on "American Literature and Civil Society: Contending Discourses in a Heterotopic Space", American Centre, Calcutta, India, 29 August 2004. , American Literature Study Circle (ALSC), India (International) (29 Aug 2004 - 31 Aug 2004)
- Discussant, International Workshop on "Contested Nationalisms and the New Statism", Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, 3 August 2004. , South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS)  (International) (02 Aug 2004 - 04 Aug 2004)
- Lead Panelist, Digital Video Conference on "Asian American Literature and its Relevance to English Teaching and Cross Cultural/International Education", Kuala Lumpur, National Library of Malaysia, 21 November 2003. , United States Embassy, KL and National Library of Malaysia (National) (21 Nov 2003)
- Lead Panelist, Digital Video Conference on "Writers on America: Bharati Mukherjee", United States Embassy, Kuala Lumpur, 29 May 2003., US Embassy, Kuala Lumpur (National) (29 May 2003)
EVENT ORGANISER
- Co-convenor, Creative Cultures of Anglophone Southeast and East Asia: Mapping Literary Networks , Open University UK and Department of English, FASS, Universiti Malaya (International) (05 Dec 2017 - 05 Dec 2017)
- Co-chair, "East/West: Ruptures and Convergences", An international Conference, Department of English, FASS (International) (01 Dec 2016 - 02 Dec 2016)
- Convenor, International Conference on "Lived Cosmopolitanisms: Identities, Languages and Literatures of Littoral Asia" (Keynote Address by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Michael N. Pearson), SBS Research Cluster (International) (05 Mar 2012 - 07 Mar 2012)
PRESENTER
- "The Radical Potential of Literature: 'Malaysia' as Narration", Inaugural Lecture, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (National) (03 Sep 2020 - 03 Sep 2020)
- Closing Panelist, "Transgressions, Tradition, and Modernity: Contemporary Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and Beyond", International Colloquium, Universiti Malaya, Department of English, Universiti Malaya (International) (13 Dec 2017 - 14 Dec 2017)
- Closing Panelist, "East/West: Ruptures and Convergences", International Conference, Universiti Malaya, Department of English, FASS, UM (International) (01 Dec 2016 - 02 Dec 2016)
- "Beyond Diaspora and Toward Bangsa Malaysia: Postcoloniality and Malaysian Literature in English", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL MIGRATION: RETHINKING SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE, New Delhi, India, Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (International) (26 Nov 2016 - 27 Nov 2016)
- "Identity, History, and Postcoloniality in Malaysia: Nation and the Artifice of Heritage", 15th Malaysia-Singapore Forum on "The Politics of Heritage", National University of Singapore  (International) (07 Dec 2015 - 08 Dec 2015)
- "Lived Cosmopolitanisms: A Theoretical Reflection", Paper presented at "Lived Cosmopolitanisms: Identities, Languages, and Literatures in Littoral Asia", International Conference, University of Malaya, 5 March 2012., Social & Behavioural Science Research Cluster, Universiti Malaya (International) (05 Mar 2012 - 07 Mar 2012)
- "Dis/Placing Diaspora: Nation and Minority Discourse in Malaysia", Paper Presented at EACLALS Triennial Conference on "Under Construction: Gateways and Walls", Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 29 April 2011. , European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (International) (26 Apr 2011 - 30 Apr 2011)
- "Contesting States and Multiculturalisms: The Third Space of Belonging in Contemporary Second-Generation British-Asian Literature", Paper Presented at the Third Global Conference on "Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues", Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK, 8 July 2010.  (International) (07 Jul 2010 - 09 Jul 2010)
- "Rethinking the Local and the Global: The Politics of Difference in Postcolonial Malaysian Literature in English", Paper Presented at the 12th Malaysia-Singapore Forum, Universiti Malaya, 7 December 2009., NUS-UM (International) (07 Dec 2009 - 08 Dec 2009)
- "Un/Settling Malaysia: Diaspora and National Desire", "Un/Settling Malaysia: Diaspora and National Desire", Paper presented at the Second Global Conference on "Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues", Mansfield College, University Of Oxford,UK, 7 July 2009. (International) (06 Jul 2009 - 09 Jul 2009)
- "Diasporic Translocations: Difference, Multiculturalism, and National Identity in Malaysia", Paper presented at the 20th ASNEL/GNEL Conference on "Postcolonial Translocations", University of Munster, Germany, 23 May 2009., ASNEL (International) (21 May 2009 - 24 May 2009)
- "Re-Reading Southeast Asian Literatures: A Cultural Studies Approach", Paper presented at Colloquium on "New Directions on Southeast Asian Literatures", Universiti Malaya, 10 December 2008. , Department of English, Universiti Malaya (University) (10 Dec 2008)
- "Malaysia in Transition: Diaspora and Nation in the Novels of K.S. Maniam" , Paper presented at the Tenth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 5 August 2004. , Region, Nation, and Literature Association (International) (03 Aug 2004 - 06 Aug 2004)
- "The Enigma of Arrival: Redefining Home in Asian American Literatures", Fulbright Seminar on "Redefining American Spaces: The City, the Land and the Body", Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA, 18 July 2003. , Fulbright American Institute (International) (18 Jul 2003)
- "Re)Narrating Nation in Narrative: (Re)Presentations of Ethnicity in the Novels of K.S. Maniam", Paper presented at the Ninth Malaysia-Singapore Forum on "Reflections and Re-Presentations: Writings and Images of Malaysia and Singapore", National University of Singapore, 28 October 2002. , UM-NUS (University) (27 Oct 2002 - 29 Oct 2002)
- "Imagining Home in Diaspora: Narratives of Nation in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh", University of Leeds Seminars (University) (16 Apr 1998)
- "Nation and National Identity: A Study of Bharati Mukherjee's Migrant Fictions", Paper presented at the International Conference on "Challenge and Change: The Indian Diaspora in its Historical and Contemporary Contexts", University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 13 August 1995., University of the West Indies (International) (11 Aug 1995 - 18 Aug 1995)
- "Raja Rao and Structural Indianness: A Reading of 'Kanthapura'" , English Department Seminars, University of Malaya (18 Aug 1992)
- "Kanthapura: The Forging of a Hybrid Consciousness", FASS Seminars, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. (University) (21 Feb 1990 - 21 Feb 1990)
OTHERS
- Organizer, "Reforming Malaysia: Gods, the Writer and Society", Talk by Amir Muhammad (11 Nov 2014)
- Organizer, Public Lecture by Pheng Cheah, "THE PHYSICO-MATERIAL BASES OF COSMOPOLITANISM" (19 Dec 2012)
- Chair, Session on "Inscriptions and Articulations", Third Global Conference on "Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues", Mansfield College, Oxford, UK, 7 July 2010. (International) (07 Jul 2010 - 09 Jul 2010)
- Organizer, Public Lecture by Ien Ang , 'Towards a Cosmopolitan Multiculturalism: Intercultural Dialogue Without Guarantees' (28 Sep 2009)
- Organizer, 'The Shock and the Syok: An Evening with Salleh Ben Joned',  (National) (26 Mar 2009)
- "The Urban and Ethnicity", Fulbright Institute on Contemporary American Literature on "Redefining American Spaces: The City, the Land, and the Body", City College of New York, New York, USA., Fulbright American Institute (International) (15 Aug 2003 - 18 Aug 2003)
- "Landscape and History", Outpost Wilderness Adventure (OWA), An Outdoor Experiential Learning Programme, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, 9 August 2003. , Department of English, Northern Illinois University, USA (International) (05 Aug 2003 - 12 Aug 2003)
- Chair , Parallel Session on Wong Phui Nam, National Seminar on "Challenges of Reading the New and the Old" (National) (05 Feb 1994 - 06 Feb 1994)
ACADEMIC/PROF. SERVICES
Evaluation
- (2020) Editor-in-Chief, SARE: Southeast Asian Journal of English (SCOPUS-indexed and ESCI-indexed journal), (Editor)
- (2018) Peer Reviewer, Ethnic and Racial Studies (Tier 1 WoS Journal), (Reviewer)
- (2015) Examiner, "Theatre of Disturbance: Gender Performativity in Selected Plays of Paula Vogel" (M.A) , (Internal Examiner)
- (2015) Peer Reviewer, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (Oxford UP Journal), (Reviewer)
- (2014) Peer Reviewer, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (WoS Journal), (Reviewer)
- (2014) Examiner, "Coming into her own: The female Bildungsroman and rising middle-class values in selected nineteenth-century British novels', (Internal Examiner)
- (2014) Peer Reviewer, STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE, (Reviewer)
- (2012) Editorial Board Member, TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press) , (EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER)
- (2010) Examiner, "Life Without Harmony: The Yin and Yang in Jean Rhys's 'Good Morning, Midnight' and 'Wide Sargasso Sea'" (MA) , (Internal Examiner)
- (2010) Examiner, "Female Subjectivity in Catherine Lim's 'The Bondmaid' and 'The Teardrop Story Woman'" (M.A.) , (Internal Examiner)
- (2009) Examiner, "The Symbiotic Man in a Selection of Dickens' Christmas Books" (M.A.) , (Internal Examiner)
- Peer Reviewer, CANADIAN LITERATURE: A Quarterly of Criticism & Review (University of British Columbia)(WoS Journal) , (Reviewer)
- Editor, SARE (Southeast Asian Review of English) Journal, 2001-2002 , (Editor)
- External Examiner, "A Comparative and Contrastive Analysis of Vishnu Sharma's 'The Panchatantra Tales' and Aesop's 'Fables'" (PhD) , (External Examiner)
- Examiner, "Revisioning Gender in 'Middlesex' and 'Luna'" (M.A.), (Internal Examiner)
- Peer Reviewer, JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING (Taylor & Francis, UK) , (Reviewer)
- Examiner, "Beyond Postcolonialism: A Study of the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri"(M.A.) , (Internal Examiner)
- Examiner, "RE-READING IRIGARAY THROUGH TANTRISM: ANDROGYNY IN SELECTED NOVELS OF EMILY AND CHARLOTTE BRONTE, ANAIS NIN, AND ALICE WALKER" (PHD) , (Internal Examiner)
- Examiner, "James Baldwin and Barack Obama: The Question of Race and Identity in American Society in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century" (M.A.) , (Internal Examiner)
- Peer Reviewer, 'Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: Studies of Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival' (Taylor & Francis Journal) (Scopus), (Reviewer)
- Peer Reviewer, 'ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature' (University of Calgary, Canada) (WoS Journal), (Reviewer)
- Examiner, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Legacy in American Literature: Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Paul Theroux's 'The Mosquito Coast'" (M.A.) , (Internal Examiner)
- Examiner, "A Feminist Revision of Jungian Individuation in Selected Novels of Doris Lessing" (PhD) , (Internal Examiner)
- Examiner, "An Analysis of Politics and Power in Selected Plays of Harold Pinter" (M.A.), (Internal Examiner)
- Advisory Committee, Global Conference on "Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues" convened annually at Mansfield College, Oxford. , (Advisory Committee)
- Peer Reviewer, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (Sage) (WoS Journal) , (Reviewer)
- Peer Reviewer, Asian Journal of Social Sciences (Brill)(WoS Journal) , (Reviewer)
- Examiner, "The Quest of Return in Doris Lessing's 'The Grass is Singing' and 'Martha Quest'" (M.A.) , (Internal Examiner)
- Examiner, "Speaking Through Silence: A Study of Female Empowerment in Selected Works of Susan Glaspell" (M.A.), (Internal Examiner)
Contribution to external organisation
- (2020) Invited Speaker, Romani Studies Programme, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, International
- (2018) VISITING PROFESSOR, FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITAS BRAWIJAYA, MALANG, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA, International
- (2014) Guest Professor, Winter Course, SEAS 450/UC 470 MALAYSIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, International
- (2014) Visiting Scholar, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS)
- (2014) Guest Scholar, Asian Studies Programme, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA, International
- (2014) Guest Speaker, Women's Awareness Month, Monash University Malaysia, National
- (2013) Guest Speaker, Monash-Asia Institute, University of Monash, Melbourne, Australia, International
- (2012) Member and collaborator, The Association for Asian Studies, International
- (2010) Guest Lecturer & Advisor, Postcolonial Theory , Department of English, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia, International
- (2009) Guest Reviewer, PROSPECT MALAYSIA, National
- (2009) Advisor for the Inter- and Multi-disciplinary Global Diasporas project convened annually at Mansfield College, Oxford. , Inter-Disciplinary Net and Oxford University, UK, International
- (2003) Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA, International
- (2003) Fellow of the American Summer Institute on Contemporary American Literature, USA (2003), Fulbright Institute, International
- (1996) Commonwealth Scholar, School of English, University of Leeds, England, United Kingdom, International
SUPERVISION
Postgraduate Student
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(2018) Intercultural Shakespeare in Bangladesh, 1972-2018, DIANA ANSAREY
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(2017) Figuring the Nation: The Body, Citizenship, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century American Literature", Jason Homer
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(2016) NEOCOLONIALISM AND THE MEDIA: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE '2013 UPHEAVALS' IN SELECTED NEWSPAPERS IN BANGLADESH ", Zulfikar Haidar
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(2014) Trauma, Postmemory and the Transracial in Malaysian Literature in English, Ooi Hoay Fern
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(2014) The Gendered Subaltern Citizen and the Contemporary Pakistani Novel in English, Fatima Hassan
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(2012) ''Headed Home': Glissant and Bhabha and the Politics of Homecoming in Walcott's Postcolonial Epics', Haleh Zargazadeh
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(2011) "Simone de Beauvoir's Immanence and Transcendence in Selected Poetry by Forugh Farokzad and Sylvia Plath", Rafat Hajizadeh
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(2009) 'Moving Between Literature and Cinema: Adaptation and Appropriation in Jane Austen's Major Novels', Fatemeh Gholipour Fereydooni
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(2008) 'Toward A Feminist Dialogism: Reading Bakhtin in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Speculative Fiction And Alice Walker's Epistolary Novel, Fatemeh Saber
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(2008) "The West and the Rest: Identity Formation, Minority Communities and Contact Zones in Selected Works by V.S. Naipaul", Hossein Jahantigh
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(2008) 'Seeing Without Being Seen': Foucault's Panopticon and Selected Dystopian Works by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler', Maryam Kouhestani
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(2004) 'Revisiting Ethics through Literature: Moral Experience in Selected Works of Charles Dickens and John Irving', Simone Elizabeth Reutens
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(2015) "A Critical Reading of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's 'Buru Quartet': Social Reform through the Breaking Free of the Captive Mind", Rabab Borhanuddin
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(2014) Secularization and Silence in Lloyd Fernando's 'Green is the Colour' and K.S. Maniam's 'Between Lives'", Maryam Azinuddin
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(2014) Othermothering the Resistance: A Black Feminist Interpretation of Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1861) and Toni Morrisson's "Beloved" (1987), Atikah Abdul Wahid
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(2014) Multicultural America: Between Consent and Descent in Alia Yunis's 'The Night Counter', Hadeel Abdulah Abdul Sheikh bin Shamlan
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(2014) From Novel to Film: The Ecocritical Imagination in Yann Martel and Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi', Eman Baksh
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(2014) "(Un)Becoming Home": Gendered Constructions of 'Borneo's Paradise' in Colonial Travel Writing,, Jenna Desiree Robert
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(2014) "Dissociative Individuation: Post-Jungian Readings of Shirley Jackson's "The Bird's Nest" and Matt Ruff''s "Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, Raja Sharuddin bin Raja Hamzan
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(2014) "Colonial Representations: Writings on Sarawak by Harriette McDougall and Margaret Brooke", Stefanie Natasha Rich Joseph
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(2011) 'The Subaltern in Simin Daneshvar's 'Savushun' and 'Sutra and Other Stories'', Roya Koshnevissansari
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(2011) "Fighting Beaumont's 'Beauty and the Beast': Subverting Binary Oppositions and Gender Norms in Angela Carter's 'The Tiger's Bride'", Devena Kasinathan
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(2010) " The Black Atlantic In African American Literature : Re-Reading James Baldwin", Hasyimah Mohd Amin
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(2010) 'Narrating the Nation: Politics, Gender and Identity in Selected Works by Rohinton Mistry', Mohammad Pourkarim
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(2010) 'Contextualizing Arthur Miller's Play, 'The Crucible' (1963), for the Screen: Jean-Paul Sartre's 'Les Sorcieres de Salem' (1957) and Miller's 'The Crucible' (1996)', Musaab Abdulkareem Fadhil
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(2009) 'Representations of Chinese Women in American Cinema, 1910 - 2010', Hong Ling Feon
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(2009) "Presence/Absence/Semblance: The Pontianak In Malaysian Cinema", Azahar Ahmad Nizar
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(2009) 'Identity Formation, Home and Diaspora Space: The Indian Diaspora in Selected Works of Jhumpa Lahiri and K.S. Maniam', Sarah Shalini
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(2008) Victimhood and Existential Suffering in Selected Novels of Edith Wharton: A Gothic Reading, Fazlinda bt Md. Fadzil
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(2008) "'From Text to Screen: Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'", Chow Mei Ling
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(2002) "'Melange, Hotchpotch, A Bit of This and a Bit of That: A Study of Hybridity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh', Nor Azian bt Muhammad
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(2001) "Cultural Identity and Diaspora in Selected Works of K.S. Maniam", Rita Malathy Theyuanboo
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(2000) 'Hybridity as Postcolonial Discourse in Selected Works of Wole Soyinka', Cindy Tham Wai Wah