Lecturer in South East Asian Studies
The Malay manuscript tradition; Islam in South East Asia; gender in the Malay world; modern literatures of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
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Hijjas, Mulaika (2010) Victorious wives: the disguised heroine in nineteenth-century Malay syair. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2017) 'In Aisyah's Footsteps: Hikayat Darma Ta'sia from the National Library of Indonesia's MI. 42.' In: Murtagh, Ben and Harun, Jelani, (eds.), Crossing the Sea of Traditional Malay Literature: A Collection of Essays in Honour of Professor V.I. Braginsky. University Kebangsaan Malaysia Press. (Forthcoming)
Hijjas, Mulaika (2015) '"Penghulu segala perempuan": Fatima in Malay didactic texts for women.' In: Formichi, Chiara and Feener, R. Michael, (eds.), Shi'ism in South East Asia: 'Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions. London: C. Hurst & Co., pp. 79-98.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2014) 'The Perak Regalia: Replicas and Originals.' In: Tan, Erika, (ed.), Come Cannibalise Us Why Don't You? Singapore: National University of Singapore Museum, pp. 119-120.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2013) 'The fruit of good intentions: Hikayat Darma Ta'sia in the National Library of Indonesia's Ml. 42.' In: Murtagh, Ben and Harun, Jelani, (eds.), Mengharungi laut sastera Melayu: esei penghargaan kepada Profesor Emeritus V.I. Braginsky. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, pp. 250-274.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2006) 'The Travels of Syair Sultan Abdul Muluk.' In: Guttman, Anna and Hockx, Michel and Paizis, George, (eds.), The Global Literary Field. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 152-164.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2006) 'Reading the Romantic Syair: Women's Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century Riau.' In: Watkins, Justin and Arai, Masami, (eds.), Proceedings of the SOAS/TUFS Postgraduate Symposium. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 117-129.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2017) 'Marks of many hands: annotation in the Malay manuscript tradition and a Sufi compendium from west Sumatra.' Indonesia and the Malay World. pp. 1-24.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2015) 'Entries 25 and 42 in A Jawi Sourcebook for the Study of Malay Palaeography and Orthography.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 43 (125). pp. 88-89.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2013) 'Guides for Mrs Nawawi: two nineteenth-century Malay reformist texts on the duties of wives.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 41 (120). pp. 215-236.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2010) 'Not Just Fryers of Bananas and Sweet Potatoes: Literate and Literary Women in the Nineteenth-Century Malay World.' Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 41 (1). pp. 153-172.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2010) 'The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang.' South East Asia Research, 18 (2). pp. 245-270.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2005) 'The Nursemaid’s Tale: Representations of the Inang in Syair Siti Zuhrah and Syair Sultan Mahmud.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 33 (97). pp. 265-279.
Hijjas, Mulaika (2004) 'Women Rajas in Two Classical Malay Texts.' Tenggara, 47/48. pp. 39-48.