Research
World literature; translation studies; literature and religion; utopian studies; travel narrative; Arabic and Malay literature and culture
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Essays
- “Incest Performed: The Neocolonial Perversion of Translation in Malaysia”. Translation and Global Asia: Relocating Cultural Production Network. Eds. Uganda Sze-pui Kwan and Lawrence Wang-chi Wong. Chinese University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, China, Dec 2014
- “Hope of a Hopeless World: Eco-teleology in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood”. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. Taylor and Francis Journals, Dec 2013
- “Fictionalising the Utopian Impulse as Postsecular Islam: An East-West Odyssey”, Literature and Theology. Oxford Journals, Sep 2011
Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
- Assistant Editor. Reading the Abrahamic Faiths: Rethinking Religion and Literature. Ed. Emma Mason. London: Bloomsbury, Dec 2014
Book Chapters
- “Utopia”. The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Eds.: Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden MA, 2016 (forthcoming)
- “Multiculturalism”. The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Eds.: Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden MA, 2016 (forthcoming)
- “Not My Bible’s Keeper: Saramago’s Cain Translates Postsecular Dissent”, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths: Rethinking Religion and Literature. Ed. Emma Mason. London: Bloomsbury, Dec 2014