Mahmud Hasan Khan, PhD

Mahmud Hasan Khan, PhD, a discourse analyst, teaches sociolinguistics and language policy in education. He taught at ULAB and IUB in Bangladesh and earlier at the University of Malaya in Malaysia. At IUB he was the Executive Director of Sasheen Center for Multilingual Excellence that focused mainly on documenting and studying indigenous languages in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. Professor Khan is one of the editors of the Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in Bangladesh (2021) and Constructing Identities in the Malaysian Media (University of Malaya Press, 2008). He has published in the areas of identity formation and policy discourses in Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, and Multilingua among others. His recent publications include chapters in Routledge (2024) and Springer (2023) on medium of instruction, equity and social justice.

Program Affiliation
Department of English & Humanities (DEH)
Bachelor of Arts in English
Master of Arts in English
Education

2017 - PhD, Linguistics - Macquarie University, Sydney.
Title: Medium of instruction policy as a symptom of Malaysian nationhood.

2007 - PhD, English Language Studies (ELS) – International Islamic University Malaysia.
Title: The discourse of popular culture: How the Malay youth interpret the culture of Other and construct self-identity discursively.

2003 - MA (Linguistics) – International Islamic University Malaysia.
MA Thesis: The discursive construction of Afghan national identity in Time and Newsweek.

1998 - MA (English Literature) – Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

1996 - BA (English Literature) – Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

Areas of Interest

Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, language planning policy.

Professional Activities
March 2007 – mid-June 2009

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Department of English, Faculty of Languages & Linguistics, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervised dissertations.

Research funding

  • What can grammatical cases tell us about institutional perspectives: A study of Malaysian English news print media, Principal Investigator, 2008 – 2009.
mid-June 2009 – mid-June 2011

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Department of English, Faculty of Languages & Linguistics, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervised dissertations.

Research funding

  • Positioning the Local at the Global: Internationalization of Higher Education as a Discursive Process, Co-Investigator, 2009 – 2010.
  • Globalization, Asianization, or ASEANization of Higher Education: A Discourse Analysis, Co-Investigator, 2009 – 2010.
mid-June 2011 – September 2012

Research Fellow.

Research funding

  • Flagship project, Environmental communication: discourses in the profession, Co-investigator, 2011 – 2012.
  • Flagship project, Language, Law and Society, Co-Investigator, 2011 – 2012.
  • Flagship project, Malay identity and its manifestations in Nusantara region, Co-Investigator, 2011 – 2012.
September 2012 – March 2016

Doctoral candidate (MQRes scholarship holder) [Second PhD].
April 2016 – June 2021

Associate Professor in the Department of English & Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
Director, Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning, ULAB (15 September 2017 – 31 January 2019).
Supervision of dissertations at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels

Research Funding

  • RELO grants, US Department of State, Evaluating Secondary School English Language Teaching and Learning in Bangladesh, Co-Investigator, September 2017 – August 2018.
June 2021 – 14 May 2024 Professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages, Independent University Bangladesh.
Journal Articles
  1. Khan, Mahmud Hasan & Moses, S. (2020). Confusion as an ideological tool in Malaysian newspaper op-eds. Crossings, Vol. 11: 225-241.
  2. Islam, S. & Khan, Mahmud Hasan. (2017). Leaked (Political) Telephone Conversation in Bangladesh: A Conversation Analysis. East West Journal of humanities, Vols. 6 & 7: 89-106.
  3. Moses, S., Khan, Mahmud Hasan, Ng, L. L., & Cheang, K. W. (2014). Articulation of medium of instruction politics in the Malaysian Chinese press, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol. 35 (2): 206-218.
  4. Moses S. & Khan, Mahmud Hasan (2013). Construction of nationhood through education in Malaya: Revisiting the Barnes and Fenn-Wu Reports. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Vol. 33 (3): 249-260.
  5. Subramaniam, R. & Khan, Mahmud Hasan (2013). Explicit grammar instruction in communicative language teaching: A study of the use of quantifiers. Malaysian Journal of ELT Research, Vol. 9 (1): 43-73.
  6. S. Pillai, Khan, Mahmud Hasan, Ida Ibrahim & S. Raphael. (2012). Enhancing employability through industrial training in the Malaysian context. Higher Education, Vol. 63 (2): 187-204.
  7. Khan, Mahmud Hasan & Govindasamy, S. (2011). ‘Islamic militancy‘ in Bangladeshi newspaper editorials: A discourse analysis. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies. 30: 357-376.
  8. Hossain, I. & Khan, Mahmud Hasan (2006). The Rift within an Imagined Community: Understanding Nationalism(s) in Bangladesh. The Asian Journal of Social Science 34 (2): 324-339.
  9. Govindasamy, S. & Khan, Mahmud Hasan (2006) “Explicitness in Political Speeches,” Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies 1(2): 143-164.
  10. Khan, Mahmud Hasan & Hare, A. E. (2004). Construction of an Afghan National Identity in Time and Newsweek. The Intellectual Discourse 12 (1): 45-62.
  11. Haque, M. S. & Khan Mahmud Hasan. (2004). Muslim identity in the speeches of Mahathir Mohamad. The Intellectual Discourse. Vol 12 (2): 181-193.
  12. Haque, M. S. & Khan, Mahmud Hasan (2003). Language and order of hegemony in society: CDA perspectives. Panini: NSU Studies in Language & Literature, 2(2): 45-72.
Books
  1. (2021). Sultana, S. Rashid, M., Haider, Z., Kabir, N. & Khan, Mahmud Hasan. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in Bangladesh. Routledge.
  2. (2008). Nair, R. Haque, S. H. & Khan, Mahmud Hasan. (Eds.) Media in Malaysia: A Critical Analysis. KL: University of Malaya Press.
Book Chapters
  1. Khan, Mahmud Hasan (2024). Equity and social justice through English medium instruction practices at tertiary level education: A case study of students from Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. In MMN Kabir, A. Padwad & RA Giri (Eds.) Equity, Social Justice and English Medium of Instruction: Case studies from Asia. Springer.
  2. Khan, Mahmud Hasan (2023). Afterword: Equity, Social Justice, and English as a Medium of Instruction in South Asia. In A Padwad & MMN Kabir (eds.) English as a Medium of Instruction in South Asia (pp. 304-313). Routledge.
  3. Khan, Mahmud Hasan & Shaila Sultana. (2021). A Critical Exploration of Private University Students’ Approach toward English as a Medium of Instruction in Bangladesh. In S. Sultana et al. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in Bangladesh. Routledge.
  4. Khan, Mahmud Hasan, Kabir, N. & Haider, Z. (2021). Lessons from the Past and the Future Directives for English Language Education in Bangladesh. In S. Sultana et al. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in Bangladesh. Routledge.
  5. Khan, Mahmud Hasan & Kamila Ghazali. (2011). Critical Discourse Analysis. In Azirah Hashim and M.K. David (Eds.) MESL Handbook, pp. 164-176. Berlin: Peter Lang.
  6. Pillai, S & Khan, Mahmud Hasan. (2011). I am not English but my First Language is English: English as a First Language Among Portuguese Eurasians in Malaysia. In D. Mukherjee and M. K. David (Eds.). Speaking in Many Tongues: Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities and the Effects of National Language Planning, pp. 87-100. IIAS/ICAS Publications Series. Amsterdam, Netherlands: University of Amsterdam Press.
  7. Zuraidah Mohd. Don, Khan, Mahmud Hasan et al. (2008). The English language test for academic staff. In Zuraidah Mohd Don (Ed.). Enhancing the quality of higher education through research: Shaping future policy, pp.9-39. Putrajaya: MOHE.
  8. Khan, Mahmud Hasan, Haque, M. S. & Nair, R. (2008). Introduction. In Ramesh et al. (eds.) Media in Malaysia: A Critical Analysis. KL: University of Malaya. 
  9. Nora Nasir, Govindasamy, S. & Khan, Mahmud Hasan (2008). The Articulation of national Integration in Malaysian English Print Media. In Ramesh et al. (eds.) Media in Malaysia: A Critical Analysis. KL: University of Malaya.  
  10. Govindasamy, S. & Khan Mahmud Hasan (2007). Selling the Global Popular: Reading Adverts in Malaysia. In Pramela Krish et al. (eds.), Bridging Worlds: Constructs of Culture and Identity. Malaysia: Pearsons Longman.
  11. Khan, Mahmud Hasan & Hare, A. E. (2006). Newsmagazine Stories: Whose Agenda is that by the way? In M. Khemlani et al. (eds.) The Power of Language and the Media. Berlin: Peter Lang.
  12. Khan, Mahmud Hasan & Haque, M. S. (2006). Derrida and the Practice of Teaching Literature in Language Classes. In AzirahHashim and Norizah Hassan (eds.), English in Southeast Asia: Prospects, Perspectives and Possibilities, Book One. Kuala Lumpur: University Malaya Press.
  13. Khan, Mahmud Hasan & Hare, A. E. (2005). Deconstructing the Language of Newsmagazines Using the Tools of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). In Lee Su Kim et al. (eds.) Language and Nationhood: New Contexts, New Realities. Kuala Lumpur: UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia Press.
Conference Papers
  1. Invited colloquium: “Transforming English Language Education in Bangladesh: Future Directions”. At the International Conference on Metamorphosis of Language and Language Education: Social Justice and Equity, BRAC University, 28-30 November 2024.
  2. Plenary Speaker: “To politicize or not to politicize the current trans- movement”. At the international conference, titled The Trans- Phenomenon in Language, Literature, and Culture, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, 15-16 November 2024.
  3. Invited colloquium: “Exploring the Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Resemiotization in Shopping as Social Practices”. At the Sociolinguistics Symposium 25, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 24-27 June 2024.
  4. Keynote Speaker: “Talk-in-interaction, multimodal analysis and the study of being-in-the-world in their everydayness”. At the national conference, titled Critical-Affective Pedagogy for Bangladesh: Teaching Language, Literature, Cultural Studies and Communication in English Studies, Jahangirnagar University, 24-25 May 2024.
  5. Plenary speaker: “Institutional ‘talk-in-interaction’ as Members’ Methods: An Interdisciplinary Perspective”. At the international conference, titled Osmosis: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Human Sciences East Delta University Chattogram, 16-17 November 2022.
Paper presentation
  1. An analysis of parliamentary discourse on MOI policy debates in Malaysia. New Zealand Discourse conference, Auckland 2-4 December, 2013.
  2. “Only syriah court can decide”: A discourse analysis of custody and conversion issues in Malaysia. Discourse & Communication conference, Loughborough University, 21-23 March 2012.
  3. Covering the jungles and the cities: a discourse analysis of environmental issues in Malaysian news media. New Zealand Discourse conference, Auckland 5-7 December, 2011.
  4. Internationalization of Higher Education and its ‘Floating signifiers’ SEAAIR 2009, Penang ParkRoyal Hotel, 13-15 October 2009.
  5. Higher Education Going Local or Global: A Discursive Field of Contestation, GHEF  2009, Penang ParkRoyal Hotel, 13-16 December 2009.
  6. Watching Suffixes Constructing Reality: An Analysis of Discourse in Malaysian English News (Print) Media, Texturing ELT for New World Realities: The Malaysian International Conference on Academic Strategies in English Language Teaching, 28-30 October 2008, UiTM.
  7. “Local meets Global: Exploring the Semiotic Changes in Dhakai Movies in Response to Bollywood. IKMAS conference on Globalization, University Kebangsan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 21-23 August 2006.
  8. “Framing the Digital Other: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Bangladeshi Political Party Websites.” Critical Perspectives on Theory and Practice in the New World Order:4th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23-25 April 2005.
  9. “Discourse of Identity: The construction of the Muslim identity in the speeches of Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.” Muslims and Islam in the 21st century: Image and Reality, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4-6 August 2004.
  10. “The Discursive construction of migrant workers’ identity in Malaysian print media.” Critical Discourse Analysis, Valencia, Spain (5-8 May 2004).
Courses Taught
ENG 539:Advanced Sociolinguistics
ENG 4101:Research Methodology