About the Author

Mohammad A. Quayum is Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia and Adjunct Professor at Flinders University, Australia, and the University of South Australia. He has taught previously at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published 34 books and 140 articles, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries in the areas of American literature, Bengali literature and Southeast Asian literature. His books on Malaysian literature include Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English 1940s-1990s (2003), Petals of Hibiscus: A Representative Anthology of Malaysian Literature in English (2001; 2003), One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English (2007; 2014), and Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature (2009).