Academic Activities | Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, PhD

A complete record of academic activities, professional engagement, scholarly service, evaluation, review, teaching, advising, awards, and public engagement.

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Proceedings and Conference Presentations

Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2026, Revisioning the Madrasa amidst Viral Claims: Critical Discourses, Marginal Women, and Psychogeographical Empowerment. Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference 2026. London, United Kingdom.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2026, Reimagining the Madrasa: Marginal Women’s Agency and Discourses of Psychogeographical Insights. International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities 2026. Bangkok, Thailand.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2024, Knowledge syncretism, ethopolitics, and spaces in 21st century. Konferensi Nasional Lalonget V. Indonesia.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2023, Disability, popular TV fiction, and Malay audience aesthetics, International Language and Education Conference (iLEC2023). Faculty of Major Language Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2024, Knowledge syncretism, ethopolitics, and spaces in 21st century, 3rd International Conference GIDES 2023. University of Wah, Pakistan.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2023, Popular Culture Transgressives & Malayness, Southeast Asian Humanities Conference. ASP Publisher.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2023, Audience aesthetics and Malay popular culture, Southeast Asian Humanities Conference. ASP Publisher.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2022, The Malay World and Opaque Values, Regional Conference on Values and Humanities. Literary Writings Association.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2022, Accentuating Postcolonial Civic Identity: Youth, Nature, and Digital Worlds. World Review of Postcolonial Affairs Seminar. Occidental Affairs Ltd. India.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2021, Audience Responses and Malay Peoplehood, Global Conference on Literary Studies and Meanings. GCL Publisher.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2021, Discarded mask abandonment: narratives of reconciliation and reciprocity, International Language and Education Conference (iLEC2021). Faculty of Major Language Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2025, Slamming into spirituality: Using nature poems and INAQ elements to humanise gifted learners. International Language and Education Conference (iLEC2025). Faculty of Major Language Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2025, Conversations that connect: An explanatory study of clubhouse use and motivations. International Language and Education Conference (iLEC2025). Faculty of Major Language Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2024, Countering Western Stereotypical Assumptions of the Reverts Muslims’ Experiences in Naima Roberts From My Sisters’ Lips (2005). Conference on English Language Teaching. Universiti Islam Negeri Saizu Purwokerto dan USIM.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2023, The byproducts of colonialism: Exploring identity crisis and racism in Dance of the Jakaranda. International Language and Education Conference (iLEC2023). Faculty of Major Language Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2025, A corpus-based discourse analysis of public attitudes towards the Prime Minister’s COVID-19 announcements. International Language and Education Conference (iLEC2025). Faculty of Major Language Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2022, The Islamic drives and L2 motivational learning model among Tahfiz students, International Conference Social Sciences and Humanities (ICOSAH) VI. Academic International Dialogue Academy (AID)
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2021, Nature and Extent of Cultural Anxiety in Eliot's The Waste Land. International Language and Education Conference (iLEC2021). Faculty of Major Language Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2021, Justice tempered with mercy: A study of three selected plays of Shakespeare. International Language and Education Conference (iLEC2021). Faculty of Major Language Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2021, Reflecting and assessing innovation for improvement: Voices of teacher-trainees experience. International Language and Education Conference (iLEC2021). Faculty of Major Language Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2021, The impacts of teacher-trainees' innovation towards students. ICEAIP Malaysia. Inti University.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. 2021, Innovation during teaching practicum: Building a rubric for assessment. International Conference on Research and Practices in Science, Technology, and Social Sciences. UiTM Dengkil.
Creative Humanities International Conference Between Us And Them: Examining The Indigenous People Of Malaysia As Represented In The Mainstream News Media 12/08/2020 – 13/08/2020
2020 Malaysia Education Dean Council Conference (MEDC2020) Menginsankan guru pelatih melalui inovasi dalam kelas. Kertas Kerja 11/11/2020 – 12/11/2020
Zawiah Yahya Webinar Series UKM Ideology, newspaper texts, and literary narratology 18/11/2020 – 18/11/2020
Langkawi International Conference on Advanced Research 2020 Issues And Challenges In Blended Learning 21/11/2020 – 22/11/2020
2019 International Language and Education Conference Using E-Portfolios In The 4.0 Classroom: A Preparation For The Professional Market 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference Color As Iconic Pattern In Toni Morrison's Text: A Study Of The Bluest Eye, Sula And Beloved 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference Opposing Native Interest In Shakespeare Tempest And Tagore’s Tasher Desh And Achalayatan: A Comparative Study 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference Theorizing Postcolonial Civic Identity: Youth, Nature, and Digital World(s) 09/10/2019 – 10/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference Color as Iconic Pattern in Toni Morrison's text: A Study Of The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved 09/10/2019 – 10/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference, Augmented Reality Lexical Learning 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference Matrix For Innovative Pedagogy (M-fIP) 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference Innovators Among Educators: What Moves Them? 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference An Emerging Framework: Literacy For Social Navigation Of Refugees 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference Theorizing Postcolonial Civic Identity: Youth, Nature, And Digital World(S) 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference Doer Or Done To? : The Framing Of The Orang Asli In The Mainstream News Media 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference Black Empowerment and Afro-American Values in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye – 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
2019 International Language and Education Conference LaPBLccT@e: Language Problem-Based Learning case-crafting Training via Electronic 10/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus et al., 2019, The young indigenous generation: A translation of their view on education and the future. International Conference Translation (2019). Faculty of Major Language Studies, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus et al., 2019, They Are Different. Why? the Sociocultural Realities That Shape the Malaysian Indigenous Children Attitudes Towards Schooling from the Teachers Perspectives20th PECERA International Conference. Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association (PECERA).
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus et al., 2019, Representation of IP in Malaysian Primary Textbooks, Sustainable Development Initiatives Dialogue, Sustainability and Serenity Hub.
Norhaili Massari, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Normazla Ahmad Mahir, 2018, The Malays: A Retrospective Examination on Identity through Selected Writings by Munshi Abdullah, Za’ba, Syed Hussein Alatas, and Mahathir Mohamad, International Conference on Ummah: Civilization, Language and Sustainability (ICU 2018), 214- 223, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan.
Normazla Ahmad Mahir, Norhaili Massari, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2018, Islamic Feminism to Unveil Islamophobia of the Hijab in Shelina Zahra JanMohamed’s Love in a Headscarf, Conference on Ummah: Civilization, Language and Sustainability (ICU 2018), 214-223, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Zainor Izat Zainal, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, 2018, Theorizing Postcolonial Civic Identity: Youth, Nature, and Digital World(s), 10th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Ramiaida Darmi, Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2018, Using ICE@TBL to encourage communication and creative thinking, Prosiding Seminar Kebangsaan Majlis Dekan Pendidikan Universiti Awam, 2018,eISBN: 978-967, 2231- 03-05, Unisza.
Nursyuhada’ Ab Wahab, Haliza Harun, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Azni Mohamed Zain, Nur Dalila Muhamad Nazri, Melor Md Yunus, 2018, 21st Century English Language Learning Ambiance via Blended Learning Approach, International University Carnival on E-Learning, International Islamic University of Malaysia.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah Mohd Mydin, 2017, Audience Narratives, Popular TV Fiction, and Unconscious Malay Psyche, International Language and Education Conference 2017, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia.
Sustainability of Language Science Conference 2017 (SOLS2017), 20/11/2017- 21/11/2017.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ramiaida Darmi, Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Fariza Puteh-Behak, Nurkhamimi Zainuddin, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah Mohd Mydin, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor 2017, It’s Not Thorough, but it shouldn’t be there:’ Advice-Giving Roles and Strategies in Doctoral Advisement Narratives, International Language and Education Conference 2017, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Hazlina Abdullah, Setiyawan Gunardi, 2017, Kursus Kemahiran Kehidupan: Menghubungkan Pembelajaran Formal dan Tidak Formal di Sekolah Tahfiz, Seminar Pendidikan Islam Sepanjang Hayat 2017, 6269, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, ISBN: 9789675852374.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah Mohd Mydin, 2016, Communicating with Alternative Modernities: Cultural Identities, Popular TV Fiction, and Audience Responses, 5th International Conference on Business Strategy and Social Sciences, 32, PAK Publishing Group.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, & Raihanah Mohd Mydin, 2016, Contemporary Issues on Popular TV Fiction: Cultural Identities and Unconscious Malay Psyche, 4th Kuala Lumpur International Communication, Education, Language, & Social Science Conference, Zes Rokman Resources.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, & Raihanah Mohd Mydin, 2016, Communicating with Social Imaginary: Cultural Identities, Popular TV Fiction, and Audience Responses, 9th Malaysian a International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Harison Mohd Sidek, Ramiaida Darmi, 2016, 9/11 consciousness: a discourse analysis in Malaysian newspapers, International Education Congress on Naqli and Aqli 2016 (IECNA 2016), 2016, ISBN: 9789674403058, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia.
Ramiaida Darmi, Fariza Puteh Behak, Normazla Ahmad Mahir, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hazleena Baharun, 2016, Adab awareness: A Case in an English language class, International Education Congress on Naqli and Aqli 2016 (IECNA 2016), 2016, ISBN: 9789674403058, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Siti Salmiah Muhammad, Emelia Effendy, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2016, A preliminary study on the integration of Naqli and Aqli knowledge: USIM experience in English for professionals course, International Education Congress on Naqli and Aqli 2016 (IECNA 2016), ID024, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, ISBN: 9789674403058.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah Mohd Mydin, Harison Mohd Sidek, Hazleena Baharun, Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Yurni Emilia Abdul Hamid, Suzanah Selamat, 2016, Multi-varied Realities of Malay Cultural Identities in Popular TV Fiction, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advances in Education and Social Sciences, 593-597, International Organization Center of Academic Research (Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index-indexed)
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Raihanah Mohd Mydin, Harison Mohd Sidek, Hazleena Baharun, Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Yurni Emilia Abdul Hamid, Suzanah Selamat, 2016, Popular TV Fiction, Mediascape, and Malay Cultural Identities,Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advances in Education and Social Sciences, 588-592, International Organization Center of Academic Research (Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index-indexed)
Hazleena Baharun, Harison Mohd Sidek, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, and Noor Saazai Mat Saad, 2016, Task-based language learning: Investigating the dynamics of learners’ oral interaction, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences, and Humanities, 666-676, International Organization Center of Academic Research. (Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index- indexed)
Hazleena Baharun, Harison Mohd Sidek, Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Haliza Harun, Ramiaida Darmi, Norhana Abdullah, and Zarina Ashikin Zakaria, 2016, The Malaysian Secondary School EFL Speaking Curriculum: A Theoretical Foundation Alignment Analysis, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Education, Social Sciences, and Humanities, 677-685, International Organization Center of Academic Research. (Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index-indexed)
Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Harison Mohd Sidek, Hazleena Baharun, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, & Melor Md Yunus, 2016, A Conceptual Framework to Explore the English language learning experiences of international students in Malaysia, Proceedings of 2016 2nd International Conference on Advances in Education and Social Sciences, 460- 471, International Organization Center of Academic Research (Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index-indexed)
Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Hamidah Yamat, Harison Mohd Sidek, Hazleena Baharun, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2016, Acts of Agency in English Language Learning Experience, 2016 2nd Proceedings of 2016 2nd International Conference on Advances in Education and Social Sciences, 472-484, International Organization Center of Academic Research (Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index- indexed)
Harison Mohd Sidek, Hazleena Baharun, Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2016, English as a Foreign Language Reading Fluency Analysis, 3rd International Conference on Education and Social Sciences, 608-616, International Organization Center of Academic Research (Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index-indexed)
Harison Mohd Sidek, Hazleena Baharun, Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2016, An Analysis of Rhetorical Moves in Abstracts for Conference Proceedings, 3rd International Conference on Education and Social Sciences, 617-623, International Organization Center of Academic Research (Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index-indexed)
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2015, Decision-Making, Legitimation, and Power in Hot Bench, International Language and Education Conference 2015, Faculty of Major Language Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2015, Popular TV Fiction: Cultural Identities and Unconscious Malay Psyche in Adam & Hawa, School of Language Studies & Linguistics (SoLLS) International Conference 2015, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2015, Popular TV Fiction: Cultural Identities and Unconscious Malay Psyche in Adam & Hawa, International Conference on ASEAN Studies 2, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2015, Contemporary Risks and Opportunities: Re-localizing Malayness in Popular TV Fiction, 4th International SEARCH Conference 2015, Taylor’s University Malaysia.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2015, 1Malaysia, TV Fiction, and the Rediscovery of the Malay ''Local'', 2015 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Popular Culture Association.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2015, Youth, TV fiction, and the Rediscovery of the Malay Local, Journal of Youth Studies Conference 2015. Journal of Youth Studies.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2014, Imagining Alternative Modernity: Negotiating Islamic-Ness and Malay-Ness on Popular TV Fiction, International Conference on Business and Social Science Strategy, Asian Economic and Social Society and University.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ismail, I. S., & Mohd Nor, N. F. (2014). Representing action: Transitivity and verb processes in Malaysian and Singaporean oral proceedings over Batu Puteh Island Issue. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences,118, 180-183 (Web of Science)
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2014). Popular culture: Power and position. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences,118, 330-334 (Web of Science)
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus & Ismail, I. S. (2013). Learning language through wireless technology: An impact study. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences,90, 381-387 (Web of Science)
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus & Ismail, I. S. (2013). “Petaling Street almost Malaysian:” A discourse analysis on illegal immigrants. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences,90, 374-380 (Web of Science)
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2013, Bridging English Language Learning through Wireless Technology, Northern Research Conference, Perlis, Malaysia. Politeknik Sultan Syed Shahbudin.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, 2013, Language Learning & Wireless Technology: A Preliminary Finding, National Research & Education Conference ’13, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Politeknik Port Dickson.

Engagements Owing To My Expertise in Literary Studies

Module on application of literary analysis, HB Language Success Consultancy, honorary role, January 13, 2028 through January 11, 2030.
Module on application of literary analysis, HB Language Success Consultancy, honorary role, January 12, 2026 through January 11, 2028.
Expert Panel Member for Text Analysis Using Transitivity Patterns and Theme Selection (Textual Metafunction), Hanif, A., 2020.
Professional Expert Panel for Content Validity in the Development of the Adversity Quotient (AQ) Instrument, Mohd Adnan, R., Expert Panel, 2018.
Appointed as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Setter for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/1: Poetry and Short Stories), 2 January 2019, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointed as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Setter for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/2: Plays), 2 January 2019, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointed as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Setter for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/3: Novels), 2 January 2019, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointed as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Assessment Panel Member for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/1: Poetry and Short Stories), 2 January 2019, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointment as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Assessment Panel Member for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/2: Plays), 2 January 2019, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointment as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Assessment Panel Member for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/3: Novels), 2 January 2019, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Interview Panel Member for the Special English Oral Examination 2018, 3 October 2019, Federal Court of Malaysia, National.
2019 Semester 1 Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination and 2018 STPM Exam Re-takers’ Examination examiner, 12 September 2018, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
2018 Written Examination Answer Script Examiner, 14 August 2018, Federal Court of Malaysia, National.
2018 Special English Examination Question Setter, 30 March 2019, Federal Court of Malaysia, National.
2018 Special English Examination Answer Script Examiner, 30 March 2019, Federal Court of Malaysia, National.
2018 Special English Examination Oral Test Evaluator, 30 March 2019, Federal Court of Malaysia, National.
Appointment as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Setter for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/1: Poetry and Short Stories), 29 January 2018, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointment as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Setter for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/2: Plays), 29 January 2018, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointment as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Setter for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/3: Novels), 29 January 2018, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointment as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Assessment Panel Member for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/1: Poetry and Short Stories), 29 January 2018, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointment as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Assessment Panel Member for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/2: Plays), 29 January 2018, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointment as Literary Discipline Expert and Examination Question Assessment Panel Member for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/3: Novels), 29 January 2018, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Interview Panel Member, 10 November 2017, Federal Court of Malaysia, National.
Examiner for Special English Examination Answer Scripts, 29 August 2017, Federal Court of Malaysia, National.
Literary Discipline Expert and Item Writer for MUET Writing Paper (800/4), 4 April 2017, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Examiner for Special Grade English (BIDK) Examination Answer Scripts, 23 March 2017, Federal Court of Malaysia, National.
Appointment as Examination Question Assessment Panel Member for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/2: Plays), 24 January 2017, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Appointment as Examination Question Setter for the Malaysian Higher School Certificate (STPM) Examination (Paper 920/2: Plays), 24 January 2017, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Interview Panel Member for the 2016 Special Oral Examination, 6 October 2016, Federal Court of Malaysia, National.
Question Setter for the English Oral Examination, 21 April 2016, Federal Court of Malaysia, National.
Examiner for MUET Writing Paper (800/4), 1 March 2016, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.
Examiner for MUET Listening Paper (800/1), 1 March 2016, Malaysian Examinations Council, National.

University Policy-Making and Taskforce Panel

2019 University Research and Conference Policy Members.
2019 Policies and Standard Operating Procedures on University Consultancy Panel.
2019 and 2020 Graduate Program Policy and Revision Panel.
2020 Administrative Position Talent Search Panel.
2017 Islamic Education for Lifelong Learning Nationwide Blueprint Panels.

Academic Writing in Popular Media

Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, December 8, 2020, Everyone wants the trophy , but is the trophy all one needs? Medium.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, September 2020, Fan narratives: A beginning of data volume on self-expression of popular TV fiction. Offstone.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, April 2015, Teaching and learning vocabulary with quizlet: Personal perspective. GOALShare.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, March 2015, Providing Feedback Online: Issues and Possibilities. GOALShare.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, February 2015, Goanimate and ESL classrooms: Potentials and caveats. GOALShare.
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, January 2015, Gender, education, and online forums: Personal perspectives. GOALShare.

Consultancy

Multireligious psychogeography framework for social cohesion, My Pan-Asiatic Advisory, June 25, 2026 through July 08, 2026.

Services to Academic Communities and Honorary/Voluntary Positions

iLEC2025 conference moderator, 2025
English language graduating requirement taskforce members, July 31, 2025
Teaching appointment, February 2025
Islamic Education and Language Center’s Editor and Translator, March 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Capstone / academic exercise advisor, 2024
Final exam verification committee member, December 11, 2024.
Islamic Education and Language Center’s Editor and Translator, June 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024.
Islamic Education and Language Center’s Editor, September 1, 2023– December 31, 2023
2023 faculty academic appointment.
Senate members voting council members, July 21, 2023
Inaugurator, Article Writing Skill Workshop, 2022
Faculty Translator, March 9, 2022 – May 3, 2022
Translator, May 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022
Executive monitor at-large, Faculty’s Professorial Lecture, January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022
Islamic Education and Language Center’s Editor, March 8, 2022 – March 14,
Executive monitor at-large, Faculty’s Audit and Research Asset Committee, January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022.
Rapporteur, August 12, 2022
Executive monitor at-large, Faculty’s Publication Committee, January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022.
Faculty’s human resource development board member, May 27, 2022.
Academic Writing workshop instructor, July 30, 2022 – August 20, 2022
Executive monitor at-large, Faculty’s Annual Report Committee, 2021
Faculty Translator, 2021
Faculty Graduate Committee Members, 2021
Assistant Registrar’s administrative position promotion voting council members, September 8, 2021.
Member, Innovation, Sharia, risks, and quality executive board, January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
FPBU human resource development member, June 24, 2021
Executive monitor at-large, Faculty’s Annual Report Committee, 2020
English Language Literature High School Teaching Certificate Committee, August 2019.
Center for Quality Assurance, Policy and Academic Excellence (QAPEX) Facilitator, 2020
Member, Faculty Quality, Sharia Risk, and Innovation Steering Committee (2020)
Administrative Member, Faculty’s Human Resource Development Committee (2020)
Members of the Faculty Management (2020)
Question Setter, Malaysian Examinations Council (2020)
Faculty Administrator – Human Resource Management (2020)
Member, University Research and Conference Committee (2019)
Chair, English Language Working Paper Committee (2019)
Interim Dean (2019)
Chair, DPPI Student Selection Committee (2019)
Secretary, 17th International Conference on Translation (2019)
Member, committee for the development of the flexible Tamhidi (foundation) programs for madrasa students (2019)
Associate Chair, STAR Award Committee (2019)
Member. Committee for the Establishment of the Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Literature Programme, 2019.
Member, Faculty of Major Language Studies Human Resource Development Committee (JPSM), 2019.
Member, Faculty of Major Language Studies Management Committee, 2019.
Member, Organizing Committee, 19th International Translation Conference (PPA-19), 2019.
Spiritual Reflection Speaker, 2018.
Member, Innovation Steering Committee, 2018.
Member, Organizing Committee, Sustainable Education for Indigenous People Seminar (SEIPS), 2018.
Faculty Representative, Re-Viva Voce Examination for Rashid Hamed Nasib Alazri, 2018.
Member, Faculty of Major Language Studies Publications Committee, 2018.
Member, Faculty of Major Language Studies Innovation Committee, 2018.
Master of Ceremonies, Opening Ceremony of World Arabic Language Day 2017, 2017.
Committee Member, International Language & Education Conference 2017, 2017.
Master of Ceremonies, Opening Ceremony of the International Language & Education Conference 2017, 2017.
Member, Organizing Committee, International Language & Education Conference 2017, 2017.
Member, Faculty of Major Language Studies Conference Committee, 2017.
Member, Faculty Research and Publications Committee, 2017.
Master of Ceremonies, Conference Programme, 2nd World Islamic Countries University Leaders Summit 2016, 2016.
Member, Conference Committee and Internationalization & Credit Transfer Committee, 2016.
Member, Proponent Committee for the Bachelor of Malay Language Studies and Malay Studies with Honours Programme, Faculty of Major Language Studies (FPBU), 2016.
Chief Editor and Editor of English-Language Books, Faculty of Major Language Studies, 2016.
Steering Committee Member, International Translation Conference (2018)
Literary Discipline Expert, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Programme, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (2017)
Evaluator, Phase 1/2017 Research Project Progress Report Presentations (2017)

Knowledge Transfer Involvement

Studying Fans and Popular culture in Southeast Asia, trainer, three months (June 2025 – August 2025)

Awards

2026 University’s Outstanding Academic Book Publication, University Sains Islam Malaysia.
2026 Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award, Heidelberg, Germany.
2025 Research Award, July 13, 2026.
2025 Book Award, July 13, 2026.
2024 Quill Award, July 13, 2026.
2025 Blueprint Architect Award, July 13, 2026.
2025 Apex Award, July 13, 2026.
2024 Apex Award, Fakulti Pengajian Bahasa Utama, July 13, 2026
95% Annual Appraisal Grade Award 2023, 2025.
95% Annual Appraisal Grade Award 2022, 2025.
2022 Editor’s Choice Award, STAR Scholars Network, Maryland, United States of America, 2022.
Excellence in Peer Review Awards, STAR Scholars Network, Maryland, United States of America, 2022.
Top Reviewer of Cogent Arts and Humanities, Taylor & Francis, London, England, 2022
2022 Best Presenter in Parallel Discussions.
2022 Journal Publication Award 2022, awarded in 2025.
2022 Journal Publication Award 2022, awarded in 2023.
2022 95% Annual Appraisal Grade Award, awarded in 2023.
2021 Journal Publication, STAR, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia.
2020 Best Paper, Universiti Utara Malaysia
2020 Gold, Universiti Utara Malaysia
2019 Excellent Work Evaluation, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
2019 Journal Publication, STAR, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
2019 Completed Research, STAR, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
2019 Silver, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (x 2)
2019 Silver, Universiti Utara Malaysia
2019 Bronze, Universiti Utara Malaysia
2019 Silver, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (x 2)
2018 Outstanding Research Publication – Social Science Journal Article in English Language Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
2018 Journal Publication, STAR, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
2018 Outstanding Lecturer, STAR, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
2018 Bronze, International Islamic University of Malaysia
2017 Excellent Service, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
2016 Excellent Teaching and Learning Award, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
2015 E-Learning Award, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
2015 Excellent Thesis, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2015 Graduate-on-time, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2010 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, West Virginia University
2009 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, West Virginia University

University Academic Program Evaluatorship

Evaluator, QS World University Rankings® Global Academic University Evaluation, 2026
Evaluator, Times Higher Education Global Academic Reputation University Evaluation, 2025
Evaluator, QS World University Rankings® Global Academic University Evaluation, 2025
Evaluator, Times Higher Education Global Academic Reputation University Evaluation, 2024
Evaluator, QS World University Rankings® Global Academic University Evaluation, 2024
Evaluator, Times Higher Education Global Academic Reputation University Evaluation, 2022
Evaluator, Times Higher Education Global Academic Reputation University Evaluation, 2019
PhD Literature and Linguistics Assessment Panel Member, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Bintulu, 2026.
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with Honours Assessment Panel Member, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, 2026.
Programme Accreditation Assessment Panel Member for the PhD in Postcolonial Literature in English, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2025.
External Assessment Panel Member for the Bachelor of Arts in English Studies, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, 2024.
External Assessment Panel Member for the Bachelor of Arts in English Studies, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, 2025.
External Assessment Panel Member for the Bachelor of Arts in English Studies, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, 2026.
External Assessment Panel Member for the Bachelor of Arts in English Studies, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, 2027.
External Examiner for the Master of Education (TESL), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2021.

Research Grant Evaluatorship

Evaluator, Ministry of Higher Education’s Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), January 31, 2025.
Evaluator, Ministry of Higher Education’s Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), 2025, January 27, 2025.
Evaluator, Ministry of Higher Education’s Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), April 10, 2023.
Evaluator, Ministry of Higher Education’s Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), March 14, 2023.
Final Research Grant Report Evaluator, Insights into the Implementation of the English Language Policy in ILKBS, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2026.
Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2025.
Research Grant Progress Report Evaluator, Cultivating Global Islamic Leaders: A Tailored English Language Module for Tahfiz Students, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, December 2, 2025.
Research Grant Progress Report Evaluator, Cultivating Global Islamic Leaders: A Tailored English Language Module for Tahfiz Students, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, February 24, 2025.
Academic Peer Reviewer for Promotion Exercise, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2025.
Matching Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2024.
Matching Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, English Language Competency and Graduate Employability: Demands in Academic Discourse versus Employers’ Expectations, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2024.
Research Grant Progress Report Evaluator, Developing Communicative Competence in English Language to Enhance Graduate Employability Skills among USIM Students, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2024.
Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2024.
Research Grant Progress Report Evaluation Panel Member, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2023.
Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2023.
Research Grant Progress Report Evaluator, Insights into the Implementation of the English Language Policy in ILKBS, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2023.
University Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2022.
University Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Humanizing Online Language Learning: Bridging Students’ Readiness across Socioeconomic Status, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2022.
Final Research Grant Report Evaluator, The New Normal in Marketing Strategies and International Student Management Post-COVID-19: An Analysis of Students’ Perspectives, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2022.
Research Grant Progress Report Evaluator, A Framework for Human Resource Management and the Development of Creative Media Content Based on Cultural and Religious Values, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2022.
Final Research Grant Report Evaluator, Empowering Muslim Rohingya Youth Refugees through a Functional Literacy Course and Nurturing Young Volunteers through Training of Trainers (TOT), Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2022.
Matching Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2021.
Academic Peer Reviewer for Promotion Exercise, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2021.
University Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Undi 18: A Prospective Model Simulation of Young Voter Migration Ahead of the 15th General Election (PRU15), Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2021.
University Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Creating a Self-Directed E-Module to Enhance Listening Skills for Millennial Language Learners, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2021.
Matching Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Enhancing Young Children’s English Language, Comprehension and Literacy Skills via Multimodal Texts and Teacher-Child Dialogic Talk, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2021.
Research Grant Progress Report Evaluator, A Framework for Human Resource Management and the Development of Creative Media Content Based on Cultural and Religious Values, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2021.
Final Research Grant Report Evaluation Panel Member, Factors Affecting Motivation in the Process of Learning Mandarin as a Second Language among Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Students, 2021.
Matching Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Fariza Puteh-Behak, Exploring the Perception and Implementation of the 20:50 English Language Transformation Programme in ILKBS (TN 20:50), Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2020.
University Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Social Media and Its Potential to Influence MENA Citizens, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2019.
University Research Grant Evaluation Panel Member, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2020.
University Grant Evaluator, Faculty of Major Language Studies, June 28, 2018.
Research Report Evaluator, Faculty of Major Language Studies, January 28, 2018.
Evaluator, University’s grant application, Fakulti Pengajian Bahasa Utama, 28 Jun 2018.

Competition Judgeship

Judge, International Language and Education Innovation Competition 2024 (i-InnoLED 2024), Faculty of Major Language Studies, 2024.
Judge National Spell-It-Right,, 27 September 2017.

Editorial

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Literary, Artistic, and Cultural Studies.
Advisory board member, Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences.
Advisory board member, Eralingua.
Advisory board member, Ghancaran: Indonesian Literary and Language Education Journal.
Editorial board member, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.
Associate editor, The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2019-present
Editor Literature, 2020- present
Editorial board member, Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism, 2021 – Present.
Sponsoring editor, March 2022 Special Section, The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies.
Guest editor Special Issue iLEC-GEMA, GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 2018.
Guest editor Journal of Language and Communication, 2018.
Editorial board member International Journal of Literature and Arts, 2017-present

Journal Article Reviewership

Place-based yet placeless: Can rural teacher education ever escape the urban gaze? Educational Review, 2026 (Clarivate Analytics SSCI, Scopus-indexed).
“Keling,” “Cina,” and “Meleis”: Ethnic Slurs, Social Media, and the Dynamics of Digital Hate Speech in Malaysia," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025 (Clarivate Analytics SSCI, Scopus-indexed).
We are not immoral”: Intersectional Identities and Cultural Adaptation Among Punk Women in Malaysia’s Subculture Scene, Theory, Culture & Society, 2025. (Clarivate Analytics AHCI, SSCI, Scopus-indexed).
Conceptual Representation of Mental Health in Chinese News Media: A Corpus-based Cognitive Discourse Analysis, Health Communication, 2025. (Clarivate Analytics SSCI, Scopus-indexed).
Oedipus in an Islamic light: A critical analysis of Ali Ahmed Bakathir’s The Tragedy of Oedipus, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2024. (Clarivate Analytics SSCI, Scopus-indexed).
Genre Analysis of Business Introductions on the Websites of Machinery Supplying Companies: The Case of Different Origins and Qualities, Heliyon, November 2024. (Clarivate Analytics SCIE, Scopus-indexed).
International Doctoral Students’ English Academic Writing Development, Heliyon, November 2024. (Clarivate Analytics SCIE, Scopus-indexed).
Addressing online hate speech on social media in Portugal: extremism or structural racism?, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 2022. (Clarivate Analytics SSCI AHCI, Scopus-indexed).
Trauma’s Aftermath and the Architecture of Recovery in Chinelo Onwualu’s Narratives, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Decoding the typologies and structural patterns of folktales in the Eastern Visayas region, Philippines, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Essence of Colonial Education: The impact on women in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2026 (Scopus-indexed).
Examining Malaysian Youth’s Responses to Wokeness through the Lens of Tang Ping (躺平): A Textual Analysis of Selected Short Stories by Malaysian University Students, Social Identities, 2026. (Clarivate Analytics SSCI, Scopus-indexed).
Indo-Chic and the Postcolonial Exotic: Marketability and Legitimation in Pakistani Rewritings of Jane Austen, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
From Epistemic Injustice to Meta Lucidity: Rohingya Poetry as an Archive of Epistemic Resistance, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Doing Power with Talk: A Socio-Pragmatic Study of Speech Acts and Territoriality in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, Global Journal Al-Thaqafah, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Pride and Prejudice in the Age of the Algorithm: Reimagining Austen through the Lens of Digital Romantic Capitalism, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Gendered Improvisations and Hidden Histories: A New Historicist Reading of Mo Yan’s Explosions, Women's Studies, 2026. (AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Corporate Identity and Cultural Values Malaysian in Film Profile Petronas 2025 Anak Siapa Ni? Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Malaysian science fiction in the Mahathir era (1991-2003): from “knowledge society” to “lingkungan teknikal (technoenvironments)" TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, November 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Issue of belonging in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Belonging, 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed)
Zoomorphic Entanglement in Southeast Asia: Malaysian Chinese Appropriation of Indian and Malay Cultural Heritage, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2025. (Clarivate Analytics AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed)
Elements of culture in the folklore of Kelantan: A preliminary survey, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed)
The Effect of Polarization of Islamic Ideology on The Spread of Misinformation, Disinformation, and Hoaxes on Twitter, Contemporary Islam- Dynamics of Muslim Life, 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed)
Narrative Disruption and the Reimagining of African Identity: A Narratological Analysis of Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death, African Studies, 2025. (Clarivate Analytics SSCI, Scopus-indexed).
Trauma’s Aftermath and the Architecture of Recovery in Chinelo Onwualu’s Narratives, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Decoding the typologies and structural patterns of folktales in the Eastern Visayas region, Philippines, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Essence of Colonial Education: The impact on women in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2026 (Scopus-indexed).
Examining Malaysian Youth’s Responses to Wokeness through the Lens of Tang Ping (躺平): A Textual Analysis of Selected Short Stories by Malaysian University Students, Social Identities, 2026. (Clarivate Analytics SSCI, Scopus-indexed).
Indo-Chic and the Postcolonial Exotic: Marketability and Legitimation in Pakistani Rewritings of Jane Austen, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
From Epistemic Injustice to Meta Lucidity: Rohingya Poetry as an Archive of Epistemic Resistance, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Doing Power with Talk: A Socio-Pragmatic Study of Speech Acts and Territoriality in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, Global Journal Al-Thaqafah, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Pride and Prejudice in the Age of the Algorithm: Reimagining Austen through the Lens of Digital Romantic Capitalism, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Gendered Improvisations and Hidden Histories: A New Historicist Reading of Mo Yan’s Explosions, Women's Studies, 2026. (AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Corporate Identity and Cultural Values Malaysian in Film Profile Petronas 2025 Anak Siapa Ni? Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Malaysian science fiction in the Mahathir era (1991-2003): from “knowledge society” to “lingkungan teknikal (technoenvironments)" TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, November 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Issue of belonging in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Belonging, 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed)
Zoomorphic Entanglement in Southeast Asia: Malaysian Chinese Appropriation of Indian and Malay Cultural Heritage, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2025. (Clarivate Analytics AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed)
Elements of culture in the folklore of Kelantan: A preliminary survey, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed)
The Effect of Polarization of Islamic Ideology on The Spread of Misinformation, Disinformation, and Hoaxes on Twitter, Contemporary Islam- Dynamics of Muslim Life, 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed)
Narrative Disruption and the Reimagining of African Identity: A Narratological Analysis of Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death, African Studies, 2025. (Clarivate Analytics SSCI, Scopus-indexed).
Rewilding Strategy Versus Extinction IM/Possibility in Hannie Rayson's Extinction, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2026. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Spatial Expansion and Self-Healing: A Study on the Phenomenon of Cross-City Cycling Among Young University Students From the Perspective of Psychogeography, Wellbeing, Space & Society, 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Exploring Ambivalence: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Emotional Complexity in Selected Amharic Novels, PLoS ONE, 2025. (Clarivate Analytics's Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Web of Science, and Scopus- indexed)
Negotiating Ethnic Identity and Cultural Hybridity: A Postcolonial Analysis of Pakistani – American Narratives, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Language of Unity and Prosperity in Trump's Speech at the 2025 Riyadh Investment Forum: A Qualitative Study in Light of Positive Discourse Analysis, International Journal of Language Education and Applied Linguistics. September 2025. (Scopus-indexed).
Wokeness as a Reaction to Power Dynamics in Malaysian Workplaces: An Analysis of Testimonials on the Malaysian Pay Gap Instagram Page, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Unveiling Hussien Enas: A Feminist Lens on Malay Women in Art, WACANA SENI Journal of Arts Discourse, 2025. (Scopus).
Toronto's Public Spaces: Facilitating Social Interactions through Intercultural Placemaking, Space and Culture, 2025. (Clarivate Analytics AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Postcolonial London: Revisiting Roman Emperor and Myths of Englishness in The Emperor's Babe, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2025. (Scopus).
The Essence of Colonial Education: The impact on women in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2025. (Scopus).
Heterotopic Green Spaces and Alienation in Philip Larkin's Poetry, Open Cultural Studies, 2025. (ESCI, Scopus).
Far right and political communication in Brazil: Bolsonaro’s style, Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 2025. (ESCI).
Defying the Traditional Stages of Trauma Healing in David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole and David Auburn’s Proof: A Deconstructive Analysis, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Museum's Politics of Visibility: Navigating Representation, Inclusion, and Power Dynamics, Museum Management and Curatorship, 2025. (AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Malaysian science fiction in the Mahathir era (1991-2003): from “knowledge society” to “lingkungan teknikal” (technoenvironments)?" for the TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, April 2025. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Where is the cosmopolitan life we led?': The Alexandria Quartet, Beer in the Snooker Club, and the Comparative Contradictions of Cosmopolitan Nostalgia, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2025. (Clarivate Analytics AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Language of Unity and Prosperity in Trump's Speech at the 2025 Riyadh Investment Forum: A Qualitative Study in Light of Positive Discourse Analysis, International Journal of Language Education and Applied Linguistics. October 2025. (Scopus-indexed).
Beyond the Heat of the Hearth: Concepts of Relatedness in the Modern Understanding of the Jeju Haenyeo, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2025. (Clarivate Analytics SSCI, Scopus-indexed).
Decolonizing the Future of African Womanhood in Nnedi Okorafor's Comic Book Shuri (Vol 1&2), 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Interpreting Sundanese Ritual Practices at the Mikul Lodong Ceremony in Cipatat, West Bandung, Indonesia, Cogent Social Sciences, March 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Exploring The Financial Well-Being of Urban Working Adults: A Gender-Based Study" for Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Evolution and origins of the "New Woman" identity construction in the literature of Natsume Sōseki, Women's Studies An Inter-Disciplinary Journal, 2024. (AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The social, political, educational and economic aspects of Indian women's Identity: In the distinctive context of Indian dramas, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
“What does the virus look like”: Disability, Pandemic, Senility the Bodily Embodiment of Crises in Namita Gokhale’s The Blind Matriarch," 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
From Myth to Reality: An Assessment of Rewriting Environmental Derangement and Refugee Crisis in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Interpreting Sundanese Ritual Practices at the Mikul Lodong Ceremony in Cipatat, West Bandung, Indonesia, Cogent Social Sciences, January 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Metropolitan metamorphosis: Posthuman transformations in the urbanized world of ‘Good Hunting,’ Journal for Cultural Research, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Masculinity beyond the warrior ‘savage’:(Re)thinking warriors as elite indigenous masculinity in select Angami folktales, Contemporary South Asia, 2024. (Clarivate Analytics SSCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Individuality and a Coherent Place: Representation of Identity within the Image of Home, English Studies, 2024. (Clarivate Analytics AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
"An Exotic View of Contemporary Pakistan: A Re-Orientalist Reading of Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
From Attachment Trauma to Healing: Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists, Journal of Language and Communication, 2024.
Localising Text and Performance: Avenues for Exploring Shakespeare and Cultural-Creative Adaptation, Journal of Language and Communication, 2024.
Analysing Najib Razak’s Rhetorical Strategies in Response to the Court’s Verdict. An Aristotelian Approach, GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Wokeness as a Reaction to Power Dynamics in Malaysian Workplaces: An Analysis of Testimonials on the Malaysian Pay Gap Instagram Page, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Cultural Identity in the Writing of the 1894 Hong Kong Plague, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2024. (Clarivate Analytics AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
A retrospective orientalist analysis of the MENA desert in the first U.S. American films From religious symbolism to colonial hegemony, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2024. (Clarivate Analytics AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Comparison of folktales about birds in Vietnam and South Korea, VMOST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2024.
The Ideological Consideration of Politics and Religion In E.M. Forster's A Passage To India, Jurnal Melayu, 2024.
Navigating Critical Race Theory: An Autoethnographic Study of an East-Asian International Student in Progressive U.S. Universities, Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 2024.
Societal trends and opportunities in the aftermath of the Nova psychedelic trance rave, through Lilla and Benjamin, Future Humanities, 2024.
Reading Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State as a Rape Narrative through Haiti’s Traumatic History, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, March 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Not a Victim but a Fighter: Reading Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State as a Healing Narrative, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, October 2024, (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Hope and Healing in Andy Campbell’s Digital Poem, “The Water Cave”: A Metamodern Study, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Popular Political Participation and Elite Responsibility in the Roman Republic: A Discussion Based on Niccolo Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2024. ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Alcohol(ism) in Saudi Fiction, MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities, 2024. (Scopus)
Re-defining Genre: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia as a Post-Colonial Migrant Bildungsroman, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2024. (Clarivate Analytics AHCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Interworld accessibility and its implications in Negeri Senja by Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Honour and ownership of women: Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the body remember, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Food, Family and Identity: Kitchen as an Emancipatory Space among Indian Women Expatriates in America, Women's Studies: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal, 2024. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Chrysalis into butterfly: Female initiation in Joyce Carol Oates’s I’ll take you there, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023. Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
‘Playing with the Paradoxes of Life –Love and Death:’ Changing Forms of Patriarchy in K.R. Meera’s Hangwoman. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Comparison of folktales about birds in Vietnam and South Korea, VMOST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023
Islamic Identity and Weather Conditions in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and The Kindness of Enemies, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed
Has this House Fallen? Fragile Nationhood and the Fulani Herdsmen's Genocide in Nigerian Poetry, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed
Closeted Worlds, objet petit a and jouissance: A Critical Study of Gaulib Shiraz Dhalla’s The Exiles, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Unwelcome guests? Social Marginalization and ‘Foreign Workers’ in the Contemporary Saudi Novel, Cogent Social Sciences, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Exploring objet petit a and jouissance: A Critical Study of Gaulib Shiraz Dhalla’s The Exiles (2011), Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Wandering Through Endless Nothingness: Reading Fictional Mind in David Markson's Wittgenstein’s Mistress, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Verbal Choice in the Ideological Construction of Romance and Migration in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Linguistic and Non-linguistic Factors Contributing to Indonesian Students Ability to Identify Fake News, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Nature at the Crossroads: An Ecocritical Analysis of Adamu Usman’s The Death of Eternity, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Creativity Lab: A Framework for Facilitating Interdisciplinary Creativity, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2022. (Scopus).
An Investigation of EFL Undergraduate Students' Performance in Cognitive Poetic Schema, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Mythological Transformation in Modern Indonesian Novels, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Characters in Khaled Husseini’s The Kite Runner and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: A Comparative Appraisal of Racism, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
A Smorgasbord of Meanings: Tracing Chaplinesque Little Tramp in Anand Gandhi’s The Ship of Theseus, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Post-Independence Dissillusionment, Paranoia, and Xenophobic Violence in Susan Kiguli's Selected Poems, Journal of Language and Communication, 2022.
Kartini from Alor: An Inspiring Teacher Image in Kick Andy and Kumparan. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Projective Identification and Paranoid-Schizoid Position in Toni Morrison’s Home: A Kleinian Reading. GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) and Kwakuvi Azasu’s The Slave Raiders (2004). Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Dialogic Characters and Genre Polyphony in Toni Morrison's Love. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Woes of Being a Virgin Girl in Superstition-Ridden Africa: An Exploration of the Origins and Dangers of Virgin Myths. Cogent Social Sciences, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
An investigation of private press journalists' experiences in Ethiopian prisons. Cogent Social Sciences, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Pragmatic Transfer in Congratulation Strategies of Punjabi EFL Learners: Social Power in Focus. Cogent Education, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Microaggressions Faced by International Students in the US with a Discussion on Critical Race Theory, Journal of International Students, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The use of translanguaging in the comic book “If Malaysia was Anime: Covidball Z, ”3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Academic Identity Development of International Doctoral Students: An Exploration from a Sociocultural Perspective, Journal of International Students, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Shakespeare’s Othello and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara: A Comparative Analysis. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Cultural Violence and Gender Identities: A Feminist Post-Structural Discourse Analysis of This House of Clay and Water. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2022. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Between Us And Them: Examining The Indigenous People Of Malaysia As Represented In The Mainstream News Media, Al-Azkiyaa: International Journal of Language and Education, 2022.
A Quest for Decolonizing African Universities, International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2022.
A Narrative Discourse of a Cross-cultural Study Experience in a Chinese University, Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 2021.
Legend literature in literature and environmental studies in the digital era, Jurnal Gramatika: Jurnal Penelitian Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia, 2021.
Urban materialities in Karlo Sevilla's Poetry Metro Manila Mammal: Re-envisioning Climate Poetics as Ecological Critique in the Era of Anthropocene, Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism, 2021.
White U.S. college students’ perceptions of prospective international students differ by race and stereotypical attributes, Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 2021.
A critical-appreciative approach as/for transformative professional development, International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2021.
Unshackling Oppression: Ecofeminism in a Palestinian Discourse. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Dialectics of ‘Home’ in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun. GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Identity, History and Social Experience in Select Poems of Derek Walcott, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Cold war politics and political Islamization in Pakistan: A new historicist analysis of Muhammad Hanif’s fiction. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
“Let us inquire, to what end is nature?”: An Ecological Reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables and The Marble Faun, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Memory, spectacle and menace in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Turn-Taking Model for Filipinos’ High-Context Communication Style from No-Answered and Non-Answered Questions in Faculty Meetings. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Sastera Rakyat Daripada Perspektif Kearifan Tempatan dan Potensinya Kepada Pelancongan Budaya Di Sarawak. Akademika: Journal of Southeast Asia Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Other Side of Redwall: Orientalism and Othering in The Outcast of Redwall. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Problems in the Teaching of Culture in EFL Classes in Iranian Public Schools, Ulum Islamiyyah, 2021.
Mechanisms of Looking Relations in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees: A Lacanian Reading. GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Hong Kong University Students’ English Learning and Motivational Intensity. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
From the National/Cosmopolitan Divide to the Transnational Poetics in Modern Australian Narrative. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
A psychogeographical tracing of place attachment in selected poems of Kuala Lumpur in Malachin Testament: Malaysian poems. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Cycle 2: Evaluation of the Speech Acts in Hasan Rouhani’s Discourse: Using Fairclough's Framework. Cogent Education, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
The Image of the Egyptian Security Forces Representatives as Depicted in Egyptian Movies After the Revolution of 25th January 2011: An Analytical Study. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Willingness to Write (WTW): Development of A Model in EFL Writing Classrooms, Cogent Education, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Solitude as an Act of Hedonism in Bryce Andrews’s Badluck Way, GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Evaluation of the Speech Acts in Hasan Rouhani’s Discourse: Using Fairclough's Framework, Cogent Education, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
The En(Counter) of a Deeper Darkness : Ian McEwan’s Saturday, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
A Case Study of the Awareness and Perceptions of EFL Teachers to the Whole Language Instructional Approach, Cogent Education, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Indonesian Local Politics and the Marriage of Elite Interests: Case Study of Elite Democracy in Gorontalo, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
The Functioning of the Concepts ‘Force’ and ‘Style’ in the Deleuze/Nietzsche: Rhizomic Assamblage, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Multimodal engagement through a transmedia storytelling assessment for undergraduate students, GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Nature and Urban Life – A Juxtaposition in the Short Story Anthology Keinginan Kecil Di Celah Daun, Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
"Flexible Citizen and Diasporic Consciousness: A Critical Inquiry of “the Chinese Question” in Charlson Ong’s An Embarrassment of Riches, The Wenshan Review, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
The Adaptation of Malay Shadow Puppetry as a Verfremdung Device in Kee Thuan Chye’s 1984 Here and Now (1984) and The Big Purge (1988), Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2020 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Understanding the Malay-Muslim Psyche through Horror Fiction in the Malay Tradition. Sains Insani, 2020.
Mother-child relationship: Exploring Freudian denial and aggression in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. Journal of Language and Communication, 2019.
Interaction in Academic L2 Writing: An Analysis of Interactional Metadiscourse Strategies in Applied Linguistics Research Articles, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2019 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Defying Norms and Redefining Identity: Yeong–Hye’s Journey in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2019. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Max’s Demise: An Outcome of his Non-conformity to Whiteness, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2019 (Web of Science and Scopus).
Kristevan Heterogeneity in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire: A New System in Order, 3L:The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2019 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Understanding the Malay-Muslim psyche through horror fiction in the Malay tradition, Jurnal Insani, 2019 (MyCite).
The significance of modern writers of Turkey and their influence on contemporary English novel writers, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2019 (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Mother-child relationship: Exploring Freudian denial and aggression in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, Journal of Language and Communication, 2019 (MyCite)
Culturomics Perspective: The Diachronic Spreading of Confucianism and Taoism in UK and USA, 1800s-2000s, English Language and Literature Studies, 2019 (MyCite)
Queering Identity in the Chinese Diaspora: A Critical Analysis of Ang Lee’s Film The Wedding Banquet. English Language and Literature Studies, 2019 (Excellence in Research for Australia-indexed).
Rhetorical Contestation in Indonesian Political Discourse: An Overview of Rhetoric of the 2019 Presidential Debates. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2019. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Interaction in Academic L2 writing: An analysis of Interactional Metadiscourse Strategies in Applied Linguistics Research Articles. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2019. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Digitized identity of Malay language learners at tertiary level. Akademika Journal of Southeast Asia Social Sciences and Humanities, 2019. (ESCI, Web of Science, and Scopus-indexed).
Exploring the potential of literature teaching for pragmatic development, Cogent Education, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Alien City Chronotope within the Scope of Contemporary American Fiction, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Strategies for Establishing Harmony in Javanese Face-to face Dialog in Purwa Shadow Puppet Performances, 3L:The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus).
Lingua-cultural Competence as a Cornerstone of Translators’ Performance in the Domain of Intercultural Business Communication, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Scrutinizing the Preferences in Literature Approaches and Activities: From the Lenses of ESL Teachers, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus)
From fiction to reality: Promoting Colombian EFL Preservice Teachers’ Critical literacy development through literary texts, 3L:The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Colonization Masqueraded as Love: A Discourse Semiotic Approach to Donne’s Selected Poems, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Representation of Tehran in Contemporary Iranian Cinema, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus).
Application of Sentiment Analysis to Language Learning. IEEE Access, 2018. (SCIE, Web of Science, Scopus-indexed).
Acquisition of L3 French Wh-question Structure by Persian-English Bilinguals, Cogent Education, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus).
Refusal speech act response differences between South Koreans and North Korean refugees: Inducing speech acts and directness, GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus).
Towards Enacting a Zapatista Feminist Agenda Somewhere in la Selva Lacondona: We are all Marias? Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Penilai Manuskrip bagi iLEC-Journal of Language and Communication (Special Issue), 2018 (MyCite)
A Study of Politeness Strategies Used by Doctors in Doctor-Patient Discourse, English Language and Literature Studies, 2018.
E.Said and M.Bakhtin Cultural Resistance and Power, English Language and Literature Studies, 2018.
Incorporating and Expanding Language Learning: Using Graphic Novels to Promote the Understanding of Literature among Malaysian ESL Learners, 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2018 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Internal Evaluator, Indexed Journal Publication Collaboration USIM-UKM (RCRP), 2017 (Web of Science and Scopus).
The Architectures of Translation of a magic carpet ride through space and time, Cogent Arts and Humanities, 2017 (Web of Science and Scopus).
Re-thinking recognition in Muslim diasporic writing. From an 'ethics of responsibility' in The Reluctant Fundamentalist to an 'ethics of dispersion' in The Silent Minaret, Cogent Humanities, 2017 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Legitimizing Identities through Discursive Practices: A critical view, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017 (Web of Science and Scopus)
Reading comprehension in the PBT TOEFL PBT: Which sub-skills deserve more intensive training? Asian Journal of English Language and Pedagogy, 2017 (MyCite)
Terrorism in Contemporary Narration, English Language and Literature Studies, 2017.
Expanding the Microsystem in the Ecology of Human Development Theory based on the English Language Learning Experiences of International Students in Malaysia, International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 2017.
Exploring the Use of Multiliteracies Project Approach to Enhance Employability Skills Among Malaysia University Graduates, International e-Journal of Advances in Education, 2017.
Translation of Basic Concepts in Chinese Tai Chi Culture: Problems and Strategies, English Language and Literature Studies, 2017.
A Study of Verbal Humor in Sitcom The Bigbang Theory from the Perspective of Memetics, English Language and Literature Studies, 2017.
The End of Human within the Discourse of Alterity: A Derridean Reading of Other, Cogent Arts and Humanities, 2016 (Web of Science and Scopus).
New Asmaradana in Indonesian Contemporary Poetry and Malayan Pop Song: Product of Rooted Culture or New Interpretations? 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2016 (Web of Science and Scopus).
The Many Ways of Being Muslim: The Practice of Immanent Critique in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, Akademika Journal of Southeast Asia Social Sciences and Humanities, 2016 (Web of Science and Scopus)
A Reimagining of History Based on the Novel The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw, 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2016 (Web of Science and Scopus).
Nihilation of Femininity in the Battle of Looks: A Sartrean Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Temporary Matter,” GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 2016 (Web of Science and Scopus).

Book and Book Chapter Reviewership

Spatial Politics in Contemporary South Asian Fiction: From Material Landscapes to Everyday, 2026, Springer Nature
Education Crossing Borders, 2020, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Elusive Brain, 2020, Yale University Press.
Hamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World, 2020, Cornell University Press.
Sex Trafficking Survivors in Political Actions: Participatory Action Research, 2020, Bentham Science Publishers.
Psychiatric Assessment of Individuals Linked to Radicalization and Lone Wolf Terrorism, 2020, Bentham Science Publishers.
Matched morality: An Islamic interpretation of Haiku poetry, 2025. UTHM Press.
Teaching of literature to less proficient students, 2020. UNISZA Press.
Module Evaluator for the Upper Secondary Certificate Programme in English Literature, 2019.
Language and Education and Trends 3, 2019.
Arabic and English Module Project evaluator, 2017.
Towards a National Policy on Open Educational Resources in Malaysia, 2017. University Sains Islam Malaysia.
Analysis of Media Literacy of Teachers for Digital Transformation, Open and Equal Access to Learning in School Management, 2017.
Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Higher Education, Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners in 21st Century Higher Education, 2016.
Empowering Culturally Responsive and Communicative Teaching in Multicultural Classroom, Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners in 21st Century Higher Education, 2016.
iTunes U USIM, 2016. Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia.
Innovations in Student Centered Teaching and Learning, 2016. USIM.

Teaching

Advanced English (2024 – 2026)
English III (2026)
English for Professionals (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017)
English for Science and Technology (2018, 2017, 2016)
English for Communicative Purposes (2016, 2015)

Graduate student advising

Alternative Knowledge and Borders of Thinking: Critical Discourses Analysis of the Content Used on Social Media Platforms as Political Discourse: A Comparative Study of Pakistani Political Parties, 2024 – Present, on-going,
Al Abedi Mehdi Abbas Mohsin, Iconicity as a product of metaphtonymy in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved, 2016 – 2020, completed,
Normazla Ahmad Mahir, Decentering the Western Gaze in Selected Contemporary British Muslim Women Writings: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis, 2018 – 2024, completed.
Iyad Ahmad Hamdan Mukahal, Ethical Chaos and Ethical Identity in Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry, 2019 – 2022, completed.
Reda Mohammad Abedalqader Aldibisiyeh, “Broken Bodies, Shredded Skins:” Authoritarian Neoliberalism through Power Dynamics, Exploitation, and Domination of Human Beings in The Dance of Jakaranda, Sugar Money, and The Old Drift, 2021 – 2025, completed.
Risham Zahra, Stylistic Analysis of Mushtaq Ahmad Yousafi’s Mirage of Minds, on-going.
Berjaya University College, Liyana Shamimi Mohamed Kamil, Cosplay and Fandom Preference and Taste, on-going.
Berjaya University College, Wan Fadli Hazilan Wan Rosmidi, Discourses in hospitality advertisements, 2023, on-going.

External Program Evaluatorship

2022-2026: Berjaya University College
2024-2027: Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management & Technology

Conference Paper Evaluatorship

Angami Naga Ecotopia in Easterine Kire's Fiction, 2025 Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 2025.
13th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (MICOLLAC 2025) Proceeding manuscripts, 2025.
The spatial transgression in Emily Bronte’ Wuthering Heights, 2023 Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 2023.
Differentiation of Self of Lear and His Daughters in Shakespeare's King Lear, 2023 Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 2023.
A Fanonian perspective on a black woman’s path of resistance in Dolen Perkins's Valdez’s Wench, 2023 Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 2023.
Tracing the Emergence of Hope During Pandemics in Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk vis-a- vis Futurism, 2023 Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 2023.
12th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (MICOLLAC 2023) Proceedings manuscripts, 2023.
Kaedah Penterjemahan Onomatopoeia Dalam Perjalanan (The Journey) Penterjemahan Karya Sastera Terpilih: Puisi, Persidangan Penterjemahan Antarabangsa, 2019.
The Translation of Metaphors Related to Beauty in Two English Versions of Hong Lou Meng. Persidangan Penterjemahan Antarabangsa, 2019.
A Study of Pregnancy, Birth and Mortality Rate in Colonial Narrative and Sacred Narrative in Sabah from the 1940s to 2017. International Conference on Literature: Contemporary Perspectives in Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature and Theory. 2018.
Madness of the east: Demystifying the colonialist perspective on Frank Swettenham and Hugh Clifford’s ‘Amok.’ International Conference on Literature: Contemporary Perspectives in Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature and Theory. 2018.

Dissertation/Thesis Evaluatorships

2026 Ph.D, Paracoloniality and the reconfiguration of the imperial eye: French explorers in British Malaya.
2026 Ph.D, The haunted self and legacies: Indian postcolonial gothic in Ruskin Bond’s selected fiction.
2026 Ph.D, Intercultural hybridity and negotiation in Asian adaptations of selected Shakespeare's plays.
2026 Ph.D, Reconstruction of Identity through the Community Under Multiculturalism in Chinese American Literature as Manifested in Celeste Ngs’ Novels.
2026 Ph.D, A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of the coverage of black lives matter movement protests by news media with different political biases.
2025 Ph.D, Disability and identity formation in selected young adult novels.
2025 Ph.D, Exploring Ecocriticism in Tash Aw's Novels: Nature, Morality, and Human-Nature Interconnectedness.
2025 Ph.D, Alienation in Eugene O’Neill’s A Long Day’s Journey into Night and Its Reflection on Some of His Plays.
2025 Ph.D, Linguistic Variations Across Pakistani Educational Blogs: A Multidimensional Analysis.
2025 Ph.D, The duality of heroism: Gender representation and resistance in The Hunger Games trilogy.
2025 Ph.D, Meta-cultural revision of Chineseness and the shifting dynamics of fluid selves in selected transnational fiction.
2025 Ph.D, The representations of occidentalism and self-orientalism in Nadeem Aslan's select novels.
2025 Ph.D, Greening Memories: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Analysis of Tan Twan Eng's Novels in English.
2025 Ph.D, Where Nature and Women Meet: An Ecofeminist Study of Ezra Pound’s Selected Poems.
2025 MA, Exploring the interconnectedness of war and death in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls: A critical discourse analysis of language, symbolism, and ideological constructs.
2024 Ph.D, Unraveling the complexities of father-daughter relationships in selected Shakespearean plays using Bowen theory.
2024 Ph.D, Identity quest via landscapes in Han Suyin's selected novels.
2024 PhD, The Loss and Search for Identity of Archetypal Emigrant
2024 MA, Resistance of Domesticity in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall.
2024 MA, Reclaiming sense of place through polysensoriality and stratigraphic vision in postwar Baghdad in Sinan Antoon selected novels.
2024 PhD, The Orient in the Selected Novels by Arab Writers Laila Halaby and Mohja Kahf.
2023 PhD, The Influence of English Language Proficiencies on Pragmatic Realization and Strategies of Making Requests by Saudi Arabia's EFL Learners
2022 MA, Animal tropes and non-human-animal relationship in selected Malaysian indigenous literature in English.
2023 Ph.D, The influence of English language proficiencies on pragmatic realization.
2022 PhD, Immutable, fragmented, and dynamic notions of self-actualization across Eliot and Dickens’ selected novels.
2021 PhD, Shadows of Life and Death: A Psychoanalytical Approach of Eros and Thanatos across Kafka’s Fiction.
2020 PhD, Examining the influence of English language proficiency on pragmatic performance and perception request act by Saudi EFL learners
2018 PhD, A Comparative Study for Compliment Responses Among Jordanian Learners of English, Native Jordanian Arabic Speakers and English Native Speakers, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia

Invited Speakerships

Aisthesis, storytelling, and contemporary life philosophies, Language, Literature, Culture, and Education in the Society 5.0 Era: An Interdisciplinary PerspectiveJenderal Soedirman University. Antarabangsa. 2026.
Knowledge syncretism, ethopolitics, and spaces in 21st century, Speaker, Konferens Nasional Lalonget V, Indonesia. Antarabangsa, 2024.
Knowledge syncretism, ethopolitics, and spaces. 3rd International Conference GIDES 2023, Keynote Speaker University of Wah, Pakistan, Antarabangsa, 2023.
Madrasa psychogeographic ethnography, 4th Conference on English Language Teaching (CELTI 2024), Indonesia.
Speaker, Creative Writing Workshop, Institut Pendidikan Guru Kampus Pendidikan Islam, Kebangsaan, 2021.
How I Graduated on Time (GOT), Peringkat Tempatan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2018.
Language Motivation Course Speaker: Language Enhancement, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia. 2026.
Keynote speaker, Nadwah Ilmiyyah: Academic Discussion Series @ FPBU, Universiti, 2024.
Penceramah, Words are never neutral, FPBU academic writing skills, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 2022
Invited Speaker, University Program Marketing, January 22, 2021.
Speaker, Workshop on the Review and Updating of the USIM Guidelines for Postgraduate Studies Management, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Local (Malaysia), 2019.
English for Job Applications, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Tempatan, 2019.
Negotiating Indigenous Identity, Sustainable Education for Indigenous People Seminar, SEIPS, Peringkat Tempatan, 2018.
The 'sanctity' of imperfection: Forgiveness in popular TV fiction. Invited Speaker. Sustainability of Language Sciences International Conference (SOLS2017), Antarabangsa, 2017.
Language Motivation Course Speaker: Language Enhancement, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia. 2016.
How I Graduated on Time (GOT), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2018.
Negotiating Indigenous Identity, Sustainable Education for Indigenous People Seminar, SEIPS 2018.

Conference Moderatorship

Moderator, International Conference on Language and Education, 2025.
Moderator, Islamic Literature Discourse 4.0, 2023.
Moderator, International Conference on Language and Education, 2021.
Moderator, Muhammad Haji Salleh Graduate Webinar, 2021.
Moderator, International Conference on Translation, 2019.
Moderator, International Conference on Language and Education, 2019.
Moderator, Sustainable Education for Indigenous People Seminar SEIPS, 2018.
Moderator, International Conference on Language and Education, 2017.
Moderator Invited Speaker, Arab-Asian Global Higher Education, 2016.
Moderator, 11h International Conference on E-Learning (ICEL), 2016.