Staff Directory
Academic Qualification
- Doctor of Philosophy (Postcolonial Literature in English Language) - Doctor of Philosophy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
- Master of Arts (English Literature) - Masters Degree, University of Sussex
- Bachelor of Human Sciences (English Language and Literature) (Honours) - Bachelor Degree, International Islamic University Malaysia
Siti Nuraishah Binti Ahmad (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
Associate Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus
ABDULHAMID ABUSULAYMAN KULLIYYAH OF ISLAMIC REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN SCIENCES
aishah@iium.edu.my
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Expert Profile
Siti Nuraishah Ahmad is assistant professor in literature at the Department of English Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. She has published articles on travel writing and the environmental history of colonial Malaya, exile and identity in Indonesian fiction, food and transnational identities in Asian Australian women’s life-writing, and most recently on Malayan women’s narratives about their travels in late imperial England. Her current research interests include 20th-century and contemporary women’s writing from Asia, travel writing as colonial discourse, and notions of spatiality and the nation in travel narratives from Malaya/Malaysia.
Area of Specialisation
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Arts and Culture ~ Post and Colonial and Global Culture Studies - Doctor of Philosophy (Postcolonial Literature in English Language)
Professional Membership
- 2009 - 2024: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Life Member), Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA)
- 2018 - 2019: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Association for Asian Studies
- 2022 - 2024: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), Postcolonial Studies Association
Teaching Responsibilities
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY | 2022/2023 |
FINAL YEAR PROJECT I | 2023/2024 2022/2023 |
FINAL YEAR PROJECT II | 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 |
MALAYSIAN AND SINGAPOREAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | 2023/2024 2021/2022 |
RESEARCH PAPER 1 | 2023/2024 2022/2023 |
SHAKESPEARE IN HIS AGE AND IN MODERN CONTEXT | 2021/2022 |
TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE | 2023/2024 |
WOMEN IN ASIAN LITERATURE | 2022/2023 |
WORLD LITERATURE II : WOMEN'S WRITING AROUND THE WORLD | 2023/2024 2022/2023 |
WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | 2023/2024 2022/2023 |
WORLD LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION | 2023/2024 |
Supervision
A Metamodern Analysis Of Selected Early Twenty-First Century British Post-Disaster Young Adult Novels.
Ph.D
Completed
2023
Co-supervisor
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Reinterpreting The One Thousand And One Nights Via Nation-Of-Intent In Selected P.Ramlee Films..
Ph.D
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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Changing Perceptions Of Single Women In Selected British Novels, 1890s – 1990s.
Ph.D
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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Identity, Memory, History And Generational Dynamics In Algerian Women'S Writing.
Ph.D
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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Happiness In Death Of A Salesman (1949) By Arthur Miller And Tonight, The Turtles Cry (1994) By Noordin Hassan: A Comparative Analysis.
Master
Completed
2021
Co-supervisor
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Nyonya Cuisine As Culinary Capital: A Feminist Study Of Food And Women'S Empowerment In English- Language Fiction By Malaysian Chinese Women Writers.
Master
Completed
2020
Main Supervisor
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Transmutation Of Emersonian Individualism And The American Dream In Two American Novels: The Great Gatsby (1925) By F. Scott Fitzgerald And Henderson The Rain King (1959) By Saul Bellow.
Master
Completed
2019
Co-supervisor
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The Lofty Eyes: A Study Of V.S. Naipal'S Postcolonial And Tourism In Among The Believers: An Islamic Journey And Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among Converted Peoples.
Master
Completed
2017
Co-supervisor
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Orientalism: A Critical Analysis Of Muslim Characters In Tamburlaine The Great And Jewish Characters In The Jew Of Malta
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Master
Completed
2015
Main Supervisor
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Research Projects
Completed
2020 - 2020 | Socio-Economic Report Covid-19: Social Cohesion and Community Resilience (Citizenship/nationality) |
2016 - 2019 | A Study on Postcolonial Malaysian Women's Life-Writing: Spatiality, Identity, and Nation |
2016 - 2018 | Muslim Women Visionaries: Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Adibah Amin |
2014 - 2015 | A Preliminary Survey on Employees' Expectation of IIUM Bachelor of Human Sciences (English Language & Literature) / BENL Graduates |
On-Going
Publications
Article
Conference or Workshop Item
Book Section
2016 | A geography of knowledge: the kampung and the journey towards knowledge in Awang Goneng's Growing Up in Trengganu and Riri Riza's Laskar Pelangi. In: The International Institute of Islamic Thought, ISBN: 978-967-14480-0-7, pp. 174-190 |
Monograph
2021 | The onset of a pandemic: impact assessments and policy responses in Malaysia during COVID-19. In: United Nations Development Programme, |