Teaching

• AL-1201 Introduction to English Literature
• AL-2201 From Romantic to Decadent
• AL-2203 20th century Literature
• AL-3302 Writing Short Stories and Poetry
• AL-4304 Life Writing
• Research Exercise

Research Interests

I am interested in the intersections between global contemporary Islamic fiction, popular fiction, and Southeast Asian Literature, in particular Bruneian literature; creative practice and pedagogies; writing fiction and non-fiction.

Publications

Journal Articles

Kathrina Mohd Daud. (2020). Gema Dari Menara (1968), Brunei’s first feature film. South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 20(2), 1–4. (PDF Version).

Kathrina Mohd Daud (2016). The ghosts of Islam and the unseen world in Bruneian horror stories. World Englishes, 35(4), 602–611.

Chin, G. V. S., & Kathrina Daud (2014). Negotiating Difference: The Trope of “Anak Derhaka” and Ideological Endings in Bruneian writings. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. (Journal Link).

Chapters in Edited Books

Chin, Grace V. S., & Kathrina Mohd Daud (2017). Introduction. In Grace V.S. Chin & Kathrina Mohd Daud (Eds.), The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back: Gender, Nation and Identity in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines (pp. 1-17). Singapore: Springer.

Kathrina Mohd Daud (2017). Articulating Female Citizenship in Norsiah Gapar’s Pengabdian. In Grace V.S. Chin & Kathrina Mohd Daud (Eds.), The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back: Gender, Nation and Identity in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines (pp. 41-54). Singapore: Springer

Kathrina Mohd Daud, Chin, G. V. S., & Maslin Jukim (2016). Contemporary English and Malay literature in Brunei: A comparison. In Noor Azam Haji-Othman, J. McLellan & D. Deterding (Eds.), The use and status of language in Brunei Darussalam: A kingdom of unexpected linguistic diversity (pp. 241–251). Singapore: Springer. (Pubisher's Link).

Edited Books

Chin, Grace V.S., & Kathrina Mohd Daud (Eds.) (2017). The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back: Gender, Nation and Identity in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Singapore: Springer.

Book Reviews

Kathrina Mohd Daud (2013). Review of The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan Eng. South East Asia 13, 35-36. (PDF Version)

Theses

Kathrina Haji Mohd Daud (2011). Jongsarat: A Novel. PhD Thesis, University of Manchester. (PDF Version).

Kathrina Haji Mohd Daud (2011). Christianity and the Canon: Reading the Sacred in Amy Tan.

Creative Work

Kathrina Mohd Daud (2017). The Halfling King. Bandar Seri Begawan: Heartwrite Co.

Kathrina Mohd Daud (2017). The Tudong Monologues. Performed by Salted Egg Theatre.

Conferences and Presentations

• 'The Female Eye-Deal: The Appropriation of the Male Gaze by Richardson’s Pamela'. The Identity and Performance Conference, University of Manchester, April 2008.
• 'Censorship, Critical Response and the Creative Writing Degree'. The Postgraduate Creative Writing Conference, University of Bedfordshire, May 2008.
• 'The Asian American Literary Canon'. CIDRA (Center for Inter-disciplinary Research in the Arts), University of Manchester, 2009.
• 'The Voice of Authority: the role of the writer-critic in shaping the canon'. The World Literature – Canons, Languages, Translatability Colloquium, University of Manchester, February 2009.
• 'The Ghosts of Islam: Islam and the Unseen World in Bruneian Horror Stories'. the Islam in Asia International Conference, Al-Akhawayn University, June 2013.
• 'The Trope of Idolatry: Love Vs God in Popular Romance'. The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Chicago, April 2014.
• 'And Among His Signs Is This: How Indonesian Religious Romance engages with Popular Romance Tropes in the West'. The Fifth International Conference for Popular Romance Studies, University of Thessaloniki, June 2014.
• 'Nation-building and identity in Bruneian Literature, Tenets of Human Development' (CSEAS Kyoto University, Southern Institute for Social Sciences Vietnam, UBD-IAS), Ho Chi Minh City, February 2015.
• 'Popular Romance and the American Muslim Conversion Narrative'. The American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Seattle, April 2015.
• 'Sex Work and Happily Ever After in Popular Romance'. The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, New Orleans, May 2015.
• 'Assessing Creative Practice: A Case Study of UBD’s Creative Writing Classes'. The Brunei Drama Education Conference, PTEKatok, September 2015.
• 'Reading the postcolonial exotic in Anglophone Bruneian fiction'. English in Southeast Asia conference, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Nov 2015.
• 'Writing from the margins: deconstructing symbols of authority in Anglophone Bruneian Writing'. Southeast Asian Studies in Asia Conference, SEASIA, Kyoto, Dec 2015.
• 'How “halal” are Muslim romances?: Shariah compliance and contestations in global Muslim romance'. Reading for Pleasure: Romance in the International Marketplace, Williams College, Williamstown MA, April 2017
• 'A Review of ASEAN Identity: A Literary Perspective'. The ASEAN Golden Jubilee Symposium, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jakarta, July 2017.
• (Laboratory) 'Contesting race, gender and sexuality in Southeast Asian literature: From colonial past to postcolonial present', at Euroseas, Oxford, August 2017.
• (Panelist) 'Agama Itu Canda Atau Candu and ASEAN 50: Imagining Community', at the Singapore Writers Festival, Nov 2017.
• 'Shariah Compliance and Contestations in Muslim fiction in Southeast Asia', at the Southeast Asian Studies in Asia Conference, SEASIA, Dec 2017.

Other Positions and Affiliations

• Visiting Research Scholar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Kyoto University, (2017-2018)
• Research Associate, Center for Advanced Research, UBD (2017-2018)
• Research Associate, Institute of Asian Studies, UBD (2017-2018)
• Joint Appointment at the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Center for Islamic Studies and Institute of Asian Studies, UBD (2014-2017)
• Visiting Research Scholar, Southeast Asian Center, University of Washington (2014)
• Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (2013)
• US State Department Scholar, University of Louisville (2012)