Publications
Book
Salma, Umme (2025). Bangladeshi Novels in English : Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003472490
Book Chapters
Salma, Umme (2024). Borrowing. Matribhashapedia: IMLI linguistic encyclopaedia of mother languages. (pp. 188-189) edited by Hakim Arif, Shishir Bhattacharja, M. Obaidul Hamid, Sayeedur Rahman, Aditi Ghosh and Somdev Kar. Dhaka, Bangladesh: International Mother Language Institute.
Salma, Umme (2023). Rocks rifted, a waterfall flowed: tracing a woman’s doctoral trek. Different perspectives, different cultures, different places. (pp. 87-108) Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004688360_006
Salma, Umme (2022). যাপন/জীবন. Professor Mohammad Ali memory book. (pp. 197-197) edited by Mohammad Ali and Jahangir Bin Sarwar. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Anarjo Publications.
Salma, Umme (2022). In blooming and falling. Professor Mohammad Ali memory book. (pp. 334-334) Dhaka, Bangladesh: Anarjo Publications.
Journal Articles
Amin, Hira, Hyökki, Linda and Salma, Umme (2024). The European Muslim crisis and the post-October 7 escalation. Religions, 15 (10) 1185, 1-23. doi: 10.3390/rel15101185
Salma, Umme (2023). Women as bangles, bangles as women: migration, gender, and female agency in Bangladeshi writer Nashid Kamal’s The Glass Bangles. South Asian Review, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/02759527.2023.2224654
Dooley, Gillian and Salma, Umme (2022). The “Hindoo Girl’s Song”: a shady story from British India. South Asian Review, 43 (3-4), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2040084
Salma, Umme (2021). Entrapment, breaking free and transformation: A study of the vicissitudes of a Bangladeshi woman migrant's life in Monica Ali's Brick Lane. Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 47 (1/2), 157-178.
Salma, Umme (2020). Bengalee Clytemnestra. Hecate, 46 (1-2), 235-235. doi: 10.3316/informit.262812392033229
Salma, Umme (2020). Cultural hybridity and (dis)location of female agency in Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare baire or The home and the world. Gitanjali and Beyond, 4 (Special) 6, 85-101.
Salma, Umme (2018). Review of East-West literary imagination: cultural exchange from Yeats to Morrison by Hakutani, Yoshinobu. Transnational Literature, 10 (2), 1-3.
Salma, Umme (2015). English Literature from the "Other" Perspective: A Thought and an Approach. IIUC Studies, 9, 261-278. doi: 10.3329/iiucs.v9i0.24031
Salma, Umme (2015). Displacement of desire in Kiran Desai's Inheritance of loss. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 9 (1), 122-136.
Salma, Umme (2015). Review of Voices across the ocean: poetry from Australia & India edited by Rob Harle and Jaydeep Sarangi. Transnational Literature, 7 (2), 1-4.
Salma, Umme (2015). Review of Fixing the broken nightingale by Richard James Allen. Transnational Literature, 7 (2), 1-3.
Salma, Umme (2014). My father lives in 'merica. Transnational Literature, 7 (1).
Salma, Umme (2014). Review of Songs from a Far Island by Roshanak Amrein. Transnational Literature, 6 (2).
Salma, Umme (2014). Review of Songs from a far island by Roshanak Amrein. Transnational Literature, 6 (2), 1-5.
Salma, Umme (2014). Review of The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem by Frederick Glaysher. Transnational Literature.
Salma, Umme (2013). Review of To silence by Subhash Jaireth. Transnational Literature, 5 (2), 1-3.
Salma, Umme (2013). Review of To Silence by Subesh Jaireth. Transnational Literature, 5 (2).
Salma, Umme (2012). Review of Your Essence, Martyr: Pakistani Elegies edited by Alamgir Hashmi. Transnational Literature, 5 (1).
Salma, Umme (2012). Review of Conrad in the Public Eye: Biography/Criticism/Publicity edited by John G. Peters. Transnational Literature, 4 (2).
Salma, Umme (2012). Orientalism in James Joyce’s “Araby”. Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2 (2), 67-79.
Salma, Umme (2011). Woman and the Empire in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock: A Rereading. Transnational Literature, 4 (1).
Salma, Umme (2011). Review of Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Suvir Kaul. Transnational Literature, 4 (1).
Conference Papers
Dooley, Gillian and Salma, Umme (2020). The Hindoo girl’s song: a shady story from British India. 17th David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Adelaide, SA Australia, 2 -4 December. North Ryde, NSW Australia: Australian Historical Association.
Salma, Umme (2019). Remaking the existing: representation of transcultural transformation in Monica Ali’s Brick lane. Cultural Transformations, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 4-6 December 2019.
Salma, Umme (2019). Translingual as transcultural: identity in Nashid Kamal’s The Glass Bangles. Crossing Boundaries: Language, Culture and Migration, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 27-29 November 2019.
Salma, Umme (2019). “‘[n]o turning back … to go through”: Family memory and female agency in Nashid Kamal’s The Glass Bangles. Transnational Families, Transnational Novels, London, United Kingdom, 12-13 July 2019.
Salma, Umme (2017). Tensions over cultural teaching: fictional representation of educational impact in Adib Khan’s Seasonal Adjustments and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. Colliding Ideas: Breaking open educational Impact to engage with diverse communities, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 16 September 2017.
Salma, Umme (2017). Representation of suppressed desire and excessive hunger in Maria Chaudhuri’s Beloved Strangers. Excess, Desire and Twentieth- to Twenty-First Century Women’s Writing Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 8-10 February 2017.
Creative Work
Salma, Umme (2022). Professor Ali as a great artwork: a posterity’s tribute to a predecessor. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Anarjo Publications.
Thesis
Salma, Umme (2020). Representations of transculturation and agency in Bangladeshi diaspora novels in English. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.883