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Related Research

Pauwels, H. 2025. The Benefits of Marrying a Demoness: The Mahābhārata’s Hiḍimbā Episode. In: Dimitrova, D. (eds) Mythologizing in South Asian Traditions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. 81-101. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76830-9_4
Cho, Heekyoung. 2025. “Reverse Digital Seriality: The Unbundling and Repackaging of the Book.” The Journal of Asian Studies 84, no. 1 (February): 55-80.
Cho, Heekyoung. 2024. “Blog Serials: Digital Literature, Seriality, Readerly Performativity.” Journal of Korean Studies 29, no. 2 (October): 273-301.
Dubrow, Jennifer. "Saadat Hasan Manto and the Poetics of the Urdu Short Story," in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures, edited by Ulka Anjaria and Anjali Nerlekar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024): 618-633. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197647912.013.33. Volume is Winner of the 2025 René Wellek Prize for Best Edited Collection, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).
Cho, Heekyoung. 2023. “Chekhov in East Asia.” In Chekhov in Context, edited by Yuri Corrigan, 244-250. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pauwels, Heidi. 2023. The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa: Gender and Culture in Rajasthan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nazry Bahrawi, Joanne Leow and Y-Dang Troeung, eds. Shorelines: Southeast Asia and the Littoral, special issue of Wasafiri, Issue 116, Winter 2023.
Nazry Bahrawi. "Grime to Shine: The Gentrification of Singapore's Vernacular Literature in Translation." Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia, edited by Phrae Chittiphalangsari and Vicente L. Rafael, Routledge, Jul 2023, pp.165-182.
Nazry Bahrawi. "Indonesia’s 'Sastra Profetik' As Decolonial Literary Theory". Islam and New Directions in World Literature, edited by Sarah R. bin Tyeer and Claire Gallien, Edinburgh UP, 2023, pp. 328-356.
Pauwels, Heidi. 2022a.Canonization of Bhakti Gurus: A Missing Link between Jai Singh II and Harishcandra. In: Istvan Keul and Srilata Raman, eds. Religious Authority in South Asia: Generating the Guru. 72–83. Routledge South Asian Religious Series. London: Routledge.