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Quayum’s books have been reviewed widely in international journals including American Studies International (USA), Ariel (Canada), Asiatic (Malaysia), Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), Chaos (Bangladesh), Dialog (Panjab University, India), Diliman Humanities (Philippines), Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK), Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies (USA/India), Journal of Postcolonial Writing (UK), Journal of the School of Languages (JNU, India), Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies, Kitaab (Singapore), Overseas Singaporean, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, RELC Journal (Singapore), RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Association, Australia), Rupkatha Journal (India), South Asian History and Culture (Routledge), South Asian Review (USA), Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities (Taiwan), The Book Review (India), The Book Review Literary Trust (India), Transnational Literature (Australia), Visva Bharati Quarterly (India) and World Literature Written in English (UK). His books have also been reviewed in many magazines and newspapers in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Singapore.

Quayum obtained his B.A. Hons and M.A. degrees in English Literature from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He earned a second master's degree with First Class and Distinction from Lakehead University, Canada, in 1984. In 1991 Quayum was awarded the PhD degree by Flinders University, Australia for writing a thesis entitled, "Saul Bellow in the Emerson-Whitman Tradition: A Study of His Later Novels in the Light of American Transcendentalism," which was later published in a modified form as Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism by Peter Lang, New York, in its Studies in American Jewish Literature Series, in 2004. His thesis was examined by three eminent Saul Bellow scholars: Professor Daniel Walden, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Professor Leila Goldman, Michigan State University, USA; and Professor Gloria Cronin, Brigham Young University, USA.

Mohammad A. Quayum (born 30 June 1954) is an academic, writer, editor, critic and translator.

Quayum was born in Gopalganj, Bangladesh on 30 June 1954. He has taught at universities in Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and the US, and is currently Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, and School of Education at the University of South Australia. He is the founding editor of Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, and has to date published 34 books and more than 140 journal articles, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries in the areas of American literature, Bengali literature and Southeast Asian literature. Between 1993 and 2000 he served as co-editor of the journal World Literature Written in English (now Journal of Postcolonial Writing). He is on the advisory board of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Transnational Literature, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, Writing Today: International Journal of Studies in English and The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is also on the editorial board of The Literary Encyclopedia.