Professor Dr. Md. Mahmudul Hasan is a scholar specializing in English literature, postcolonial studies, feminist literature, and Islamic studies. He has been teaching at IIUM since 2010 and previously taught at the University of Dhaka. He earned his PhD from the University of Portsmouth (UK) and conducted postdoctoral research at Heidelberg University (Germany). His research focuses on South Asian, Islamic, and diasporic literatures, and he has published with Brill, Routledge, SAGE, and Wiley-Blackwell. His notable books include Islamic Perspectives on Twentieth-Century English Literature and Bangladeshi Literature in English: A Critical Anthology. Additionally, he writes for The Daily Star, New Age, and The New Straits Times on literature, politics, and culture.