Teaching

• AN-1203 Introduction to English Literature
• AN-1204 Introduction to Literary Studies
• AN-1302 Literary Appreciation and Criticism
• AN-4301 Contemporary Critical Theory
• AN-4304 Postmodern Theatre
• AN-4306 From Romantic to Decadent

Research Interests

Rinni's current research interests broadly encompass the relationships between energy, climate, environment and literature in Brunei. She has published on imagined environments and notions of oil in the Bruneian petroculture. She welcomes graduate research proposals in the energy and environmental humanities with a special focus on Brunei and the wider Southeast Asian region.

Rinni currently supervises a Masters by Research student working on romance in diasporic literature and is co-supervisor for postgraduate students researching contemporary Singaporean literature and Hallyu in Brunei.

Publications

Book Chapters

Rinni Haji Amran. (2021). Examining the imagined environments in contemporary Bruneian fiction: Developing Southeast Asian ecocriticism. In H. M. Y. Ho & D. Deterding (Eds.), Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture (pp. 145-162). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2_9

Ho, H. M. Y., & Rinni Haji Amran. (2021). Constructs of the modern home: Negotiating identity in anglophone Bruneian literature. In H. M. Y. Ho & D. Deterding (Eds.), Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture (pp. 163-175). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2_10

Rinni Haji Amran. (2020). 'The fundamental magic of flying': Changing perspectives in Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s North to the Orient and Virginia Woolf’s The Years and Between the Acts. In M. McCluskey & L. Seaber (Eds.), Aviation in the literature and culture of interwar Britain (pp. 201-224). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60555-1_10

Ling, M., & Rinni Haji Amran. (2018). Advancing achievement through value-added measures: A study on English teacher preparation in Brunei. In S. Zein & R. Stroupe (Eds.), English language teacher preparation in Asia (pp. 75-92). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315105680

Rinni Haji Amran. (2014). Aviation and alienation in John Dos Passos’s Airways, Inc. and The Big Money. In S. Wiseman (Ed.), Assembling identities (pp. 208-219). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Journal Articles

Rinni Haji Amran. (2020). Technologizing Islam, Islamifying technology: The use of modern technologies in Brunei’s first film, Gema Dari Menara (1968). South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 20(2), 30–40. (PDF Version).

Rinni Haji Amran. (2017). Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s North to the Orient: An account of an aviator’s emerging environmental consciousness. Ikhtilaf, 1(1), 20-29.

Rinni Haji Amran. (2017). 'Moving without comprehensible purpose toward no discernible destination': The sensation and spectacle of flight in William Faulkner’s Pylon, Interactions. Ege Journal of British and American Studies, 26, 29-40.

Rinni Haji Amran. (2015). ”World State, Therefore, it Must Be”: H.G. Wells’s Responses to Aeronautical Developments in Britain. The Wellsian: The Journal of the H.G. Wells Society, 38.

Roles and Contributions

• 2021–Present: Peer reviewer for Environment and History (White Horse Press)
• 2021–Present: Member of Association for the Study of Literature and Environment — Association of Southeast Asian Nations region (ASLE-ASEAN)
• 2020–Present: Sub-editor for Discover UBD Newsletter
• 2019–Present: Lead for Promotions, Marketing, and Outreach for FASS, UBD
• 2018–Present: UBD CoNect Faculty Career Guide
• 2020–2021: Co-Secretary for Brunei-Malaysia Forum 2021
• 2019–2020: Coordinator for FASS Seminar Series, UBD
• 2017–2018: GenNEXT Coordinator for FASS, UBD
• 2014–Present: Member of Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
• 2009–Present: Associate of King’s College London (AKC)