Rinni Marliyana Haji Amran

Dr. Rinni Marliyana Haji Amran is a Lecturer in English Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, concurrently holding a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2024) at the University of Oslo's Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Exeter (2015), MA in Literatures of Modernity from Royal Holloway, University of London, and BA in English Language and Literature from King's College London.

Her research examines energy-literature intersections through ecocritical and postcolonial frameworks, specializing in:

• Global petrocultures and Southeast Asian energy narratives
• Environmental imaginaries in Bruneian/Malaysian literature
• Climate fiction and resource extraction politics
• Islamic technological modernities in cultural production

Publications demonstrate consistent focus on environmental humanities, with recent works analyzing waste ecologies, anti-extractivism, and religious-technological interfaces. Awarded the prestigious MSCA Fellowship for her project 'Petro-Ambiguity' examining Bruneian oil cultures.

Supervises graduate research on diasporic literature and contemporary Singaporean writing. Professional roles include:

• Member, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment-ASEAN (2021-present)
• Sub-editor, Discover UBD Newsletter (2020-present)
• Peer reviewer for Environment and History journal