Staff Directory
Academic Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide
- Master of Human Sciences (English Literary Studies) - Masters Degree, International Islamic University Malaysia
- 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
Other's position:
Head, AbdulHamid AbuSulayman Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences
madyramlan@iium.edu.my
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Area of Specialisation
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Literary Studies (Including Literary Genres, Stylistics) - American Literature
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Linguistics and Literature ~ Literary Studies (Including Literary Genres, Stylistics) - Asian Australian literature
Professional Membership
- 2021 - 2022 : Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Member), The Australasian Consortium of Humanities Researchers & Centres
Teaching Responsibilities
| 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE | 2024/2025 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 |
| CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE | 2024/2025 |
| DIGITAL HUMANITIES FOR LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY STUDIES | 2025/2026 2024/2025 |
| ENGLISH LITERATURE: TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY | 2017/2018 2016/2017 |
| FINAL YEAR PROJECT I | 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 |
| FINAL YEAR PROJECT II | 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 |
| INDUSTRIAL TRAINING | 2021/2022 |
| INTERNSHIP | 2024/2025 |
| 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 METHODOLOGY FOR LITERARY STUDIES | 2025/2026 |
| 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
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The Art Of Transgression In Rabindranath Tagore'S Works On Screen: An Auteurist Study.
Ph.D
Completed
2021
Co-supervisor
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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
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Identity, Memory, History and Generational Dynamics in Algerian Women's Writing. Identity, Memory, History And Generational Dynamics In Algerian Women'S Writing.
Ph.D
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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A Comparative Study Of Trauma And Memory In Selected Partition Novels From India And Palestine.
Ph.D
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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Voices From The Shadows: Remembering Southeast Asian Comfort Women And Their Narratives Of Survival During And After The Japanese Occupation.
Ph.D
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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. Marriage And Courtship In Puteri Gunung Ledang And Kaguya-Hime No Monogatari: A Sentiment Analysis And Cultural Materialist Perspective .
Master
Completed
2025
Main Supervisor
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Challenges Towards Cosmopolitanism In Hanna Alkaf'S The Weight Of Our Sky And Geetha Krishnan'S The Seat
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Master
Completed
2023
Main Supervisor
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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
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Islamic Adaptation Of Classical Western Fairy Tales: A Study Of Selected Works Of Gilani-Williams
.
Master
Completed
2021
Co-supervisor
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The Influence Of Social Media On Language Errors: A Study On Whatsapp Text Messages
By Iium Students.
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
Co-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
Main Supervisor
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Huzir Sulaiman'S Atomic Jaya: A Critique Of The Political And Social Situation Of The Nation.
Master
Completed
2018
Co-supervisor
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Transnational Feminism In Arundhati Roy'S Novels And Essays.
Master
Completed
2018
Co-supervisor
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Research Projects
Completed
| 2024 - 2025 | Student Motivation and Engagement in Diverse Learning Environments |
| 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
| 2025 - Present | Constructing a Collective Memory of Surviving Gendered Violence: A Study of Contemporary Southeast Asian Writings on 'Comfort Women' |
| 2024 - Present | Framing Islam within the Speculative in Muslim Writing: Examining Islam, Muslimness and Islamic Histories in Bird Summons (2023) by Leila Abouleila and Alif the Unseen (2012) by G. Willow Wilson |
| 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 |
Awards & Recognition
| 10 Jun, 2022 | Best Academic (Bronze) - AHAS KIRKHS | KCDIO |
Publications
Articles
Conference or Workshop Items
| 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), |
Books
| 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 Sections
| 2025 | Narrating Bangsa in Malaysian cinema: an examination of nostalgia in Mat Kilau (2022). In: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 978-3-031-94984-5, pp. 63-83 |
| 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 |