Perspectives

A graduate from New York University, Dr Jalal Uddin Khan is a Professor of English at the University of Nizwa, Oman. He has published numerous articles in various Asian and Western journals. His recent publications include this book and its companion, Readings in Oriental Literature: Arabian, Indian, and Islamic, also published by CSP (2015). Dr Khan’s teaching and research interests include Old and Middle English; Shakespeare; the long and late eighteenth century; Romantic/Victorian poetry; Romantic women poets; children’s literature; Western travel literature about the Middle East through the nineteenth century; and the growth and development of Canadian literature in the early nineteenth century. He has vast experience of teaching a broad range of literature courses in all the major periods and genres of English and American literature, both at introductory/survey and higher levels. This enables him to teach as a generalist as well as a specialist, and contribute to multicultural and interdisciplinary offerings at an institution of higher learning. To both his teaching and scholarship, he brings a sense of global literary relations and international cultural connections, which helps him to participate in the enlightened endeavor of fostering mutual understanding between the Oriental and the Western.