Washima Che DanWashima Che Dan is a senior lecturer with the Department of English of Universiti Putra Malaysia where she teaches sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, and language in literature. Her research interests are in the interconnections between lnguage, ideology and culture, and in the problematics of language and literature particularly within the contexts of a multilingual nation like Malaysia. She has written on English and Islamic identity, Malayness in Malaysian and Singapore literature, the politics of language and literature, and gender and sexuality in Malaysian literature. Read More Read Less