Academic publications

Books

Forthcoming  The Work of Romance (Working title)

Forthcoming The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Cinemas, co-edited with Patrick F. Campos

2017     Izharuddin, A. Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

 Selected refereed journal articles

2024 Izharuddin, A. ‘Ludic piety and the limits of modesty
On the perplexing case of Dato Vida.’ Religion and Gender. 14 (3), 291–312

2021    Izharuddin, A. ‘Counterpublics of care: Making space for mediated intimacy and romantic self-making in Malaysia.’ Gender, Place, and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.

2021    Izharuddin, A. ‘Reading the digital Muslim romance.’ CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East and Islamic World. 15 (1), 146-171.

2021    Izharuddin, A. ‘“Redha tu ikhlas”: The social-textual significance of Islamic virtue in Malay forced marriage narratives.’ Religions. 12 (310), 71-82.

2020    Izharuddin A. The laugh of the pontianak: darkness and feminism in Malay folk horror. Feminist Media Studies. 20 (7): 999-1012.

2019 Izharuddin, A. Does sociology need decolonizing? International Sociology. 34 (2), 130-137.

2019    Izharuddin, A. ‘The New Malay Woman’s jiwa as a postcolonial structure of feeling.’ Journal of Intercultural Studies. 40 (4), 491-503.

2018    Izharuddin, A. ‘“Free hair: Narratives of unveiling and the reconstruction of self.’ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44 (1): 155-176.

2015    Izharuddin, A. ‘The Muslim woman in Indonesian cinema and the face veil as ‘Other’’ Indonesia and the Malay World. 43 (127), 397-412.

2015    Izharuddin A. Pain and Pleasures of the look: The female gaze in Malaysian horror. Asian Cinema. 26 (2): 135-152.

Selected book chapter(s)

2021    Izharuddin A. ‘After the hijab: Liminal states of post-veiling embodiment.’ In (Re)-Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style: Gendered Configurations in Muslim Contexts, edited by Viola Thimm. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 

2021    Izharuddin, A. ‘Cinema of misrecognition: gender, Islam, and the terrorist in Indonesian film.’ Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology, edited by Kristian Petersen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press / ILEX Foundation.

2020    Izharuddin A. ‘Sweet surrender: the ethno-religious spaces of Malay romance.’ In Paper & Text: The Trials and Trade of Malaysian Literature, edited by William Tham Wai Liang. Petaling Jaya: Gerakbudaya.

2020    Izharuddin A. ‘Intergenerational archipelagos: trans-Motherhood and transing the Indonesian family in Realita, Cinta, dan Rock n Roll and Lovely Man.’ In Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema, edited by Niall Richardson and Joel Gwynne. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

2018    Izharuddin, A. ‘The New Malay woman: The rise of the modern female subject and transnational encounters in postcolonial Malay literature.’ The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back: Gender, Identity and Nation in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines, edited by Grace V.S. Chin and Kathrina Mohd Daud. Singapore: Springer. 

Book reviews

2021    Izharuddin, A. Handbook on Gender in Asia. Edited by Sherlina Huang and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. South East Asia Research. 29 (1): 134-136.

2021    Izharuddin, A. Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature by Claudia Yacoobi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Religion and Film 25 (1): 1-9

2018    Izharuddin, A. Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, Edited by Andrew Weintraub and Bart Barendregt. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-en volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 174 (2-3): 360-362.

2017. Izharuddin, A. Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene By Bobby Benedicto, There Goes the Gayborhood? By Amin Ghaziani, Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity, and Representations, Edited by Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 48 (2): 319-324.