Dr. Hasnul Insani Djohar is teaching comparative literature at Southern Utah University.

She is the head of the Department and Senior lecturer at the English Department at Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English and Arabic from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, her master’s in English from Central Michigan University with a DIKTI-funded Fulbright for Indonesian Lecturers Program grant, and her PhD in English from the University of Exeter, UK, with an LPDP grant. She has taught literary criticism, postcolonial studies, and global/comparative literature, primarily focused on the Muslim world at UIN Jakarta since 2009. Her research and articles on global Muslim literature and women’s literature of the ummah, including Indonesian literature, has been published and presented in various national and international forums. Her recent articles include “The Crossroad of America and the Bildungsroman in US-Muslim Women’s Fiction.” She is the founder and the editor-in-chief of the journal Muslim English Literature.

Upon completing the program, she will continue developing the global/comparative Muslim literature program at UIN. She will continue to publish on Islamic and Indonesian literary criticism, which tend to be excluded from world literature and post-colonial studies.