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Wan Nur Madiha Binti Ramlan

Academic Qualification

  • Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide
  • Bachelor of Human Sciences (English Language & Literature) (Honours) - Bachelor Degree, International Islamic University Malaysia

Wan Nur Madiha Binti Ramlan (Dr.)

Assistant Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus

ABDULHAMID ABUSULAYMAN KULLIYYAH OF ISLAMIC REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN SCIENCES


madyramlan@iium.edu.my
6035


Area of Specialisation


  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Literary Studies (Including Literary Genres, Stylistics) - Asian Australian literature
  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Literary Studies (Including Literary Genres, Stylistics) - American Literature


Professional Membership


  • 2021 - 2022: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), The Australasian Consortium of Humanities Researchers & Centres


Teaching Responsibilities


19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE 2019/2020 2018/2019
20TH CENTURY AMERICAN literature 2020/2021
20TH CENTURY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 2022/2023 2020/2021 2018/2019
AMERICAN LITERATURE I 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017
AMERICAN LITERATURE II 2018/2019 2017/2018
ENGLISH LITERATURE: TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY 2017/2018 2016/2017
FINAL YEAR PROJECT I 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021
FINAL YEAR PROJECT II 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING 2021/2022
ISLAMIC LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 2021/2022 2019/2020
ISSUES IN WORLD LITERATURE 2023/2024 2022/2023
LITERARY GENRES I : POETRY 2016/2017 2015/2016
LITERARY GENRES I: DRAMA AND POETRY 2021/2022
LITERARY GENRES II : INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA 2016/2017
LITERARY GENRES III:THE NOVEL & SHORT STORY 2015/2016
READING POETRY 2023/2024 2022/2023
RESEARCH PAPER 1 2022/2023 2019/2020
RESEARCH PAPER 2 2022/2023 2019/2020
RESEARCH PAPER II 2019/2020
WORLD LITERATURE II : WOMEN'S WRITING AROUND THE WORLD 2019/2020
WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016


Supervision


The Art Of Transgression In Rabindranath Tagore'S Works On Screen: An Auteurist Study.
Ph.D Completed 2021 Co-supervisor
Representation Of Muslims In The West: Alterity, Diaspora And Identity In Selected Contemporary Novels By Immigrant Muslim Women Writers.
Ph.D Completed 2020 Co-supervisor
Challenges Towards Cosmopolitanism In Hanna Alkaf'S The Weight Of Our Sky And Geetha Krishnan'S The Seat .
Master Completed 2023 Main Supervisor
Charting The Evolution Of Travel Writing By Women Writers From The West In The Asian Orient: Examining The Works Of Isabella Bird And Elizabeth Gilbert.
Master Completed 2022 Main Supervisor
Islamic Adaptation Of Classical Western Fairy Tales: A Study Of Selected Works Of Gilani-Williams .
Master Completed 2021 Co-supervisor
The Influence Of Social Media On Language Errors: A Study On Whatsapp Text Messages By Iium Students.
Master Completed 2021 Co-supervisor
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 Co-supervisor
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 Main Supervisor
Huzir Sulaiman'S Atomic Jaya: A Critique Of The Political And Social Situation Of The Nation.
Master Completed 2018 Co-supervisor
Transnational Feminism In Arundhati Roy'S Novels And Essays.
Master Completed 2018 Co-supervisor
Examining the Concept of Marriage in Popular Asian Folktales: A Sentiment Analysis on Puteri Gunung Ledang,Kinnaree Manora, Kaguya-Hime No Monogatari and Chunhyang .
Examining The Concept Of Marriage In Popular Asian Folktales: A Sentiment Analysis On Puteri Gunung Ledang,Kinnaree Manora, Kaguya-Hime No Monogatari And Chunhyang .
Master In Progress Main Supervisor


Research Projects


Completed
2019 - 2022 Developing a new framework of English lexical and morphological development among Malaysian primary-school children.
2016 - 2018 Islamization and Integration of Knowledge in Rokeya's Works
2016 - 2019 A Study on Postcolonial Malaysian Women's Life-Writing: Spatiality, Identity, and Nation
On-Going
2017 - Present Examining Kampung Landscapes and Contemporary Malaysian Culture in Popular Malaysian Anglophone Literature
2017 - Present Language Shift and Language Maintenance of Javanese Speakers in Malaysia


Publications


Article

2023 Maternal monstrosity in “The tale of Si Tanggang”. 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 29 (1) pp. 200-212
2023 Puteri Gunung Ledang in popular media: womanhood, femininity and gender in Puteri Gunung Ledang (2004) and Magika (2010). Malay Literature, 36 (1) pp. 65-88
2023 The sciences and the arts: are we seriously still debating this in 2023?. The Star, () pp. 1-4
2022 Asia-Pacific writers: voices from the centre to the peripheries. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 16 (1) pp. 7-11
2021 PositioningAsian Australian Writing: A Study of Three Australian Literary Anthologies. Asiatic, 15 (1) pp. 183-201
2020 Adaptation and auteurism in South Asian Studies with reference to Rabindranath Tagore’s Works on Screen. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 14 (1) pp. 259-272
2020 Adapting fairy tales through an Islamic lens: a study of Gilani-Williams’ Cinderella: an Islamic tale. History of Education & Children’s Literature, xv (2) pp. 891-905
2020 The acquisition of English grammar among Malay-English bilingual primary school children. GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, 20 (4) pp. 166-185
2020 Yunus, Raudah et al. HerSTORY: Tales of Teen Girl Troubles and Triumphs. Kuala Lumpur: MPH Publishing, 2020. 90 pp. ISBN 967-415-548-1.. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 14(2), 14 (2) pp. 133-136
2019 In search of 'home' in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers. The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, 12 (2) pp. 103-127
2019 In search of home in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers. The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, 12 (2) pp. 103-127
2018 In all seriousness: humour in Adibah Amin's as I was passing and as I was passing II. Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Huanities, 25 (2) pp. 23-47
2016 R. Krishnan, ed. Faultlines. Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, 2015. 159 pp. ISBN 978-983-3221-51-6. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature , 10 (1) pp. 261-264
2016 Theophilus Kwek, Giving Ground. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2016. 76 pp. ISBN978-981-09-8599-8. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 10 (2) pp. 298-300
2014 Malay characters in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the colour. Asiatic, 8 (2) pp. 125-136
2010 Mapping the history of Malaysian theatre: an interview with Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof. Asiatic, 4 (2) pp. 155-168
Conference or Workshop Item

2020 A monstrous reading of selected mothers in Malay folktales. In: DELL Research Seminar 2020,
2020 Positioning Asian Australian writing in anthologies of Australian literature and Australian literary history. In: International Conference on Language & Literature 2020 (ICLL 2020),
2020 The acquisition of English grammar among bilingual Malay- English primary school children. In: DELL Research Seminar 2020,
2018 In search of 'home' in the transnational imaginary: food, roots, and routes in memoirs by Asian Australian women writers. In: International Conference on Literature 2018 (ICL),
Book

2023 Budaya membaca Malaysia: satu tinjauan terkini. The BIblio Press, ISBN: 9789670040349
2017 The Malays in the fiction of Lloyd Fernando and Che Husna Azhari. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-418-624-1
Book Section

2023 Kepentingan akses bahan bacaan di kalangan kanak-kanak B40 dan rentan di Malaysia: satu tinjauan. In: Kenyalang, The Biblio Press Enterprise, ISBN: 9789670040349, pp. 109-135
2017 Mass media: potential threat to young minds. In: Penerbit Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, ISBN: 978-967-0899-69-5, pp. 97-106