Umme Salma
Also known as: Salma
The University of Queensland, Australian Catholic University, University of Queensland, International Islamic University Chittagong
0000-0002-1545-2785
About
Dr Umme Salma is an English literature teacher and researcher, having received an education in English literature, linguistics, and language as well as the humanities. She has completed my PhD in Postcolonial Studies and Other Literature in English from the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, supported by the prestigious and highly competitive International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and the University of Queensland Centennial Scholarship. Her research entwines eighteenth-century English literature and contemporary world anglophone literature, straddling migration and diaspora, subjectivity formation and agency, gender and age, and metaphors as a literary device. She has pursued my research within the South Asian region, with a particular focus on the underrepresented branch of Anglophone literature, for example, Bangladeshi literature in English. By engaging with the tension among colonial, postcolonial, and world literature writings, she foregrounds literary/fictional endeavours as tools to voice inequity, inequality, exclusion, and social justice, and to cultivate emotional intelligence. Her poems reflect her multidisciplinary insights, and thus, all her works are shaped by her life experiences as an emotional Bedouin.
Employment
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The University of Queensland Lecturer (Level B) in English Literature2025 - Present
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Australian Catholic University Sessional Academic2025 - 2025
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The University of Queensland Casual Academic2021 - 2025
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The University of Queensland Research Assistant2021 - 2025
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International Islamic University Chittagong Assistant Professor2012 - 2022
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International Islamic University Chittagong Lecturer2008 - 2012
Education
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University of Queensland PhD2016 - 2020
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (24)
- Women as Bangles, Bangles as Women: Migration, Gender, and Female Agency in Bangladeshi Writer Nashid Kamal's The Glass Bangles Save
- Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity Save
- The European Muslim Crisis and the Post-October 7 Escalation Save
- Rocks Rifted, a Waterfall Flowed Save
- The “Hindoo Girl’s Song”: A Shady Story from British India Save
- Entrapment, Breaking Free and Transformation: A Study of the Vicissitudes of a Bangladeshi Woman Migrant’s Life in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane Save
- Representations of transculturation and agency in Bangladeshi diaspora novels in English Save
- Cultural Hybridity and (Dis)Location of Female Agency in Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare Baire or The Home and the World Save
- East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchange from Yeats to Morrison Save
- Fixing the Broken Nightingale Save