School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Dr Mulaika Hijjas

Key information

Roles
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Senior Lecturer in South East Asian Studies Departmental Research and Knowledge Exchange Convenor Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme Scholarships Sub-board Member and Research & Publications Sub-board Member Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies Steering Committee Member
Qualifications
BA (Harvard), MPhil (Oxford), PhD (London)
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
454
Email address
mh86@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number
+44(0) 20 7898 4253
Support hours
Tuesday 3:30pm-4:30pm (in person)
Friday 3:30pm-4:30pm (in person or online)

Research interests

The Malay manuscript tradition; Islam in South East Asia; gender in the Malay world; modern literatures of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

  • Didactic literature for women in the Malay manuscript tradition
  • The Malay manuscript tradition
  • Islam in South East Asia
  • Gender in the Malay world
  • Modern literatures of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

PhD Supervision

Name Title
Panggah Ardiyansyah Heritage as accumulated meaning: Transactions, appropriation and biographies of Hindu-Buddhist materials in pre-modern Indonesia
Saranpat Boonhok ‘Hybridised Thainess’ in Contemporary Thai Literature: Contestation and Negotiation through Adaptations of Thainess since 2006
Leif Andrew Garinto Language policies and the rise and evolution of English in Malaysian, Philippine and Singaporean education, publishing and literature
Raisa Kamila
Raisa Kamila Space, Society, and Colonial Infrastructure in 19th- and 20th- Century Aceh

Publications

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