Dr. M.A. Rafey Habib
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
- University of Oxford, England:
Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature (1/86)
Doctoral Dissertation: "T.S. Eliot's Prose Writings and Aspects of the Western Philosophical Tradition." University of Oxford, 1986. Supervisor: Terry Eagleton. - University of Essex, England:
B.A. Hons. with Distinction in English/European Literature (6/78) - International House, London:
R.S.A. Prep. Cert. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (1/86)
Awards:
- Fulbright Scholarship to Malaysia: teaching and researching in English
Department of International University, Kuala Lumpur, November 2004 - August 2005. - Provost's Teaching Excellence Award, Rutgers University, Spring, 2003.
- Awarded Black Belt in Go Ju Ryu Karate, Heimlich's Karate Systems, Cherry Hill, NJ, June, 2007.
- AAUP Georgina M. Smith Award for Creative and Distinguished Leadership, Spring, 2000.
- Camden Office of Refugee and Migration Services Humanitarian Award, April, 2000.
- Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Scholarly Excellence, Spring, 1998.
Teaching Experience:
July 2007 – pres: Professor of English, Kingston University, London.
Sept 1998 – July 2007: Rutgers University, Professor. Sept 1992 - Sept 1998: Rutgers University, Camden, Assistant Professor.
1996-2002: Director of Writing Program.
Courses taught at Postgraduate Level:
- Literary Criticism and Theory
- Modern World Literature and Theory
- Virginia Woolf and Feminism
- Studies in Dramatic Form
- Freud and the Twentieth Century
- Islamic History and Literature
- Islamic Literature
- Political Readings of Shakespeare
- Introduction to Graduate Literary Study
- Politics and Literature
- Rhetoric: A Practicum for Teaching Assistants
- The Aesthetics of Kant (Independent Study)
- Kant and Schopenhauer (Independent Study)
Courses taught at Undergraduate Level:
- Literary Criticism and Theory
- Modern British Fiction
- Modern British Drama
- Modern British Poetry
- Yeats, Eliot and Pound
- Literatures in English I
- Literatures in English II
- Introduction to Literary Study
- Middle Eastern and Indian Literature
- World Masterpieces I
- World Masterpieces II
- Comic Literature
Aug 1987 - Aug 1992: Bloomsburg University, Asst. Professor.
Courses Taught:
- British Writers I
- British Writers II
- Literary Theory
- Non-Western Literature I (Middle Eastern and Indian)
- Non-Western Literature II (African and African-American)
- World Literature I
- Introduction to Literature
- Sixteenth Century Literature
- Composition I
- Composition II
- Philosophical Background of Romanticism
- Kant and Hegel
Publications:
Authored Books:
Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Blackwell, 2007. 220 pages.
A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present. Blackwell, 2005. 838 pages.
An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry in Translation. Modern Language Association. Edited and translated, with critical introduction. 2003.195 pages.
The Early T.S. Eliot and Western Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 289 pages.
The Dissident Voice: Poems of N.M. Rashed: Translated from the Urdu. Oxford University Press, 1991. [A translation, for the first time into English, of the four volumes of poetry written by a major modern Urdu poet, with detailed critical introduction]. 123 pages.
Edited Books:
Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Vol. 6: the Nineteenth Century. This volume will contain thirty-four chapters written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. 900 pages. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
The Oxford Anthology of Literary Criticism and Theory. Oxford University Press, in progress.
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, ed. J.A. Cuddon. In progress.
Essays/Articles:
“T.S. Eliot and Modernism in Urdu Poetry.” Annual of Urdu Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 22 (2007), 43-66.
Europe: 1760-1850: A Historical Survey. Encyclopaedia of the Romantic Era, London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2004, pp. 329-333.
"Edward Said's" Critical Outlook. History New Network Online, 2003: http://hnn.us/articles/1728.html, 3 pp.
Poems of Iqbal, translated into English. Annual of Urdu Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 18, 2 (2003), 449-457.
American Literary Theory:Twentieth Century, Critical Survey of Literary Theory, Vol. I, Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2000, pp. 28-34.
British Literary Theory: Twentieth Century, Critical Survey of Literary Theory, Vol. I, Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2000, pp. 175-180.
"Bergson Resartus and T.S. Eliot's Manuscript," in Journal of the History of Ideas, April 1993, pp. 255-276.
"Islamic Studies,"in The Blackwell Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory, 1996, pp. 265-270.
"Edward Said", in The Blackwell Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory, 1996, pp. 479-481.
"Classical Marxism," in Guide to Literary Theory, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 491-495.
"The Politics of Multicultural Teaching," in The Heath Anthology American Literature Newsletter, Spring 1993, pp. 10-11.
"Reader-Response Theory and Orientalism: Is The Satanic Verses Teachable?" in South Asian Review [affiliate of PMLA], November 1991, pp. 15-28.
"Horace's Ars Poetica and the Deconstructive Leech," in British Journal of Aesthetics, Spring 1991, pp. 13-25.
"The Prayers of Childhood: T.S. Eliot's Manuscripts on Kant," in Journal of the History of Ideas, Jan-March 1990, pp. 93-114.
Reviews of Books
Rev. of Christopher Ricks, ed., T.S. Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917, Janus, 1997.
Rev. of Mette Hjort, ed., Rules and Conventions: Literature, Philosophy, Social Theory, in British Journal of Aesthetics, Summer, 1994.
Rev. of Michel de Certeau, Heterologies, in British Journal of Aesthetics, Autumn, 1987.
Rev. of J. Hawthorn, ed., Criticism and Critical Theory, in British Journal of Aesthetics, Autumn, 1985.
Rev. of Christopher Norris, Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, in British Journal of Aesthetics, Summer, 1983.
Sessions Chaired at Conventions:
"The Virtual/Actual in Bergson." Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Villanova University, 10 May 1995.
"Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Environment." Bloomsburg University, 24 Oct. 1991.
University-wide Forum, "Moving Towards Pluralism in Education." Bloomsburg University, 24 April 1989.
"Language and Figure in Fiction." PCEA Conference, Wilson College, 1 April 1989.
Literary Theory session, EAPSU Conference, West Chester University, 15 Oct. 1988.
Presentations:
“Reading and Democracy.” Fifth International Conference on the Book. Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain, Oct. 21, 2007.
“Islam and the Burden of Literalism.” International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Carthage, Tunis, July 5, 2006.
“Literary Criticism in College Education: Who Needs it?” Public Lecture, Barnes & Noble, Marlton, NJ, March 1, 2006.
“Islam and Democracy in the New ‘World Order’: The Role of the Humanities.” MICOLLAC International Conference, Universiti Putra, Malaysia, April 23, 2005.
“Critical Theory, Postcolonialism and Islam.” Lecture given at University of Karachi, Pakistan, April 13, 2005.
“Islamic Studies and the Modes of Literary Criticism.” Presented at the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Literary Association of Nepal, Kathmandu, March 2, 2005.
Urdu Poetry: The Challenges of Teaching and Translating, MLA Convention, New York, Dec. 27, 2002.
Kant's Metaphysics and Aesthetics, Lecture presented to Rutgers University Philosophy Society, Feb. 21, 2002.
"The Struggle of Classical Philosophy and Rhetoric." The New Europe at the Crossroads, York, England, August, 2000.
"Literature and the Four Schools of Islamic Law," American Legal Studies Association, Pittsburgh, Oct 30, 1999.
"Memory and History in Schopenhauer and Freud."Frontiers of Memory, Institute of Education, London, September 17-19, 1999.
"Plato and Aristotle on Democracy." The New Europe at the Crossroads, York, England, July 1998.
"History into Fiction: Robert Graves' King Jesus." Robert Graves Centenary Conference," University of Oxford, England, 8-12 August, 1995.
"Virginia Woolf: Feminism and Philosophy." Fourth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Bard College, 10 June 1994.
"Hegel and Derrida." Bucknell University, 9 March 1994.
""The Politics of Multicultural Teaching." Convention of the Modern Language Association, 29 Dec. 1992.
"Culture and Politics of India since Gandhi," Bloomsburg University, 6 November 1991.
"Hegel's Negro and the Dialectic of Identity in Ralph Ellison." English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities Conference, 20 Oct. 1990.
"Reader-Response Theory and Orientalism: Is The Satanic Verses Teachable?" Theory and Pedagogy Conference, IUP, 21 Sept. 1990.
"Modernism in Urdu Poetry." Essex University Literature Convention, April 1981.
"T.S. Eliot's Influence on Urdu Poetry." School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, April 1980.
Consultancies:
(1) External examiner, Ph.D thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, Summer 1992.
(2) Reader of submitted articles for Journal of the History of Ideas, Summer 1993 - present.
(3) External examiner, University of Glasgow Ph.D thesis entitled "Philosophy and Style in the Critical Writings of T.S. Eliot", August, 2000.
(4) Examiner of M.A. theses in English, International Islamic University of Malaysia, 2004-2005.
(5) Co-Supervisor of Ph.D. thesis, Kingston University, 2007-2008.