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PROFILE
UPM's Staff Profile
DR. ZAINOR IZAT BINTI ZAINAL
SENIOR LECTURER
FACULTY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION
zainor@upm.edu.my
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PROFESSIONAL

NAME :
(Dr.) ZAINOR IZAT BINTI ZAINAL
POST :
SENIOR LECTURER
ENTITY :
FACULTY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION

FIELD OF SUPERVISION
ENGLISH LITERATURE / LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
EDUCATION
PHD
UNIVERSITI MALAYA, KUALA LUMPUR
Graduated : 2016
MASTER OF ARTS (ENGLISH LITERATURE)
UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA, SERDANG, SELANGOR
Graduated : 2004
SARJANAMUDA PENDIDIKAN PENGAJARAN BAHASA INGGERIS SEBAGAI BAHASA KEDUA
UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA, BANGI, SELANGOR
Graduated : 1995
JOURNAL PUBLICATION
1. The Role of Nature in Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
2. Peer-editing Practice in the Writing Classroom: Benefits and Drawbacks
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
3. Advancing Students' Response to literary texts through the use of literary journals
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
4. Advancing aesthetic literary experience through a multimedia project
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - Social Science Citation Index (JCR)
5. Malaysia?s Development Success Story: Critical Responses in Contemporary Malaysian Novels in English
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
6. Authentic Materials For The Language Classroom: Digitised Texts Via Email Attachments
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
7. Against Adat and Islam: a Feminist Reading of Malay Women Characters in Lloyd Fernando's Scorpion Orchid and Green Is The Colour
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
8. Does It Matter? Tweeting In A Research Methodology Class
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
9. Yang-May Ooi?s The Flame Tree and The Politics of Environment in Malaysia
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
10. Postcolonial Identity In Selected Works by K.S. Maniam and C.M. Woon
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
11. Alienation From Nature And The Role of Forgotten Tradition in Keris Mas? Jungle of Hope and K. S. Maniam?s Between Lives
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
12. Let's Write On The Wall: Virtual Collaborative Learning Using Padlet
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
13. Improving teaching in higher education in Malaysia: Issues and challenges
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
14. Environmental ethics in KS Maniam’s Between Lives and Yang-May Ooi’s The Flame Tree
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
15. “I Love It But I Don’t Use It”: Students’ Perceptions on the Use of Padlet as an Educational Tool for Learning
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
16. Skill Versus Content: Using Twitter in the Literature Classroom
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
17. Archetypal Myth: Goddess Durga and the Resilient Matriarch in Rani Manicka's The Rice Mother
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
18. At Odds With Each Other: Development And Environmental Sustainability In Cecil Rajendra’s Selected Poems
    Journal type: Other Abstracting / Indexing Bodies
19. Women’s Performance as Resistance to Oppressive Norms in Malachi Edwin Vethamani’s Coitus Interruptus and Other Stories
    Journal type: MYCITE
20. Foucauldian Surveillance In Dave Eggers’ The Circle
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
21. Intersectional Interests to Decolonise the African American Identity: An Overview of Postcolonial Science Fiction, Afrofuturism and Transhumanism
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
22. Afrofuturism and Transhumanism: New Insights into the African American Identity in Octavia Butler’s Dawn
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
23. Angel-in-the-House and Madwoman: The Vicious Circle in Bernice Chauly’s Once We Were There
    Journal type: MYCITE
24. Landscape of Loss: Poems on Lake Chini
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
25. Disciplinary Power, Surveillance, and the Docile Body in Mark Dunn’s Ella Minnow Pea
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
26. Rethinking Ecological Subalterns in Tanure Ojaide’s The Activist
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
27. Challenging yet Rewarding! : Group-Work Video Essays in the English Literature Classroom
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ESCI
28. Non-human Subalterns in Helon Habila's Oil on Water and Lawrence Amaeshi's Sweet Crude Odyssey
    Journal type: MYCITE
29. Human and Ghost Attachment in Hanna Alkaf's The Girl and The Ghost
    Journal type: Non Citation-Indexed
30. From Jungles and Rivers: Animal Tropes In Malaysian Indigenous Literature In English
    Journal type: MYCITE
31. The Translation Strategy of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: An Analysis of Domestication and Foreignization in the East and the West
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed Journal - ESCI
32. Speaking and Writing The Anthropocene: In Conversation with Cecil Rajendra
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
33. The Erosion of Cultural Essence: Translating Mythical Cultural Terms in Classical Chinese Folk Novels
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
34. Intersectional Female Oppression In Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
    Journal type: MYCITE
35. From Attachment Trauma To Healing: Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden Of Evening Mists
    Journal type: MYCITE
36. Reading Anthropocene Anxiety in Cecil Rajendra’s Poetry
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
37. Knowledge Map and Future Avenue of Cognitive Literary Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1975–2024)
    Journal type: Citation-Indexed - Scopus
38. Afrofuturism: Technology Of Surviving and Creating New Futuristic Possibilities in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood Trilogy
    Journal type: MYCITE
PUBLICATION
2025
Reading Anthropocene Anxiety in Cecil Rajendras Poetry
2024
The Erosion of Cultural Essence: Translating Mythical Cultural Terms in Classical Chinese Folk Novels
2024
Speaking and Writing The Anthropocene: In Conversation with Cecil Rajendra
2021
Rethinking Ecological Subalterns in Tanure Ojaides The Activist
2021
Afrofuturism and Transhumanism: New Insights into the African American Identity in Octavia Butlers Dawn
2021
Disciplinary Power, Surveillance, and the Docile Body in Mark Dunns Ella Minnow Pea
2020
Intersectional Interests to Decolonise the African American Identity: An Overview of Postcolonial Science Fiction, Afrofuturism and Transhumanism
2020
Foucauldian Surveillance In Dave Eggers The Circle
2018
Archetypal Myth: Goddess Durga and the Resilient Matriarch in Rani Manicka's The Rice Mother
2018
At Odds With Each Other: Development And Environmental Sustainability In Cecil Rajendras Selected Poems
2017
Environmental ethics in KS Maniams Between Lives and Yang-May Oois The Flame Tree
2017
I Love It But I Dont Use It: Students Perceptions on the Use of Padlet as an Educational Tool for Learning
2017
Skill Versus Content: Using Twitter in the Literature Classroom
2016
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS IN K.S. MANIAM?S BETWEEN LIVES AND YANG-MAY OOI?S THE FLAME TREE
2015
Let's Write On The Wall: Virtual Collaborative Learning Using Padlet
2015
Does It Matter? Tweeting In A Research Methodology Class
2015
Yang-May Ooi?s The Flame Tree and The Politics of Environment in Malaysia
2014
Improving teaching in higher education in Malaysia: Issues and challenges
2014
Alienation From Nature And The Role of Forgotten Tradition in Keris Mas? Jungle of Hope and K. S. Maniam?s Between Lives
2014
Malaysia?s Development Success Story: Critical Responses in Contemporary Malaysian Novels in English
2012
Advancing aesthetic literary experience through a multimedia project
2011
Peer-editing Practice in the Writing Classroom: Benefits and Drawbacks
2009
Postcolonial Identity In Selected Works by K.S. Maniam and C.M. Woon
2009
The Role of Nature in Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory