In December, the department welcomed Nazry Bahrawi as Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Literature and Culture. His current scholarship examines the intersections between animal fables and racial discourses in Malay-Indonesian literary texts and films. He has published on racialism, modernism, literary Islam and translation as cultural rewriting in maritime Southeast Asia in relation to other Indian Ocean cultures. Nazry is an editor-at-large at Wasafiri magazine and the essay & research editor for the Journal of Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA). He has also translated Malay literary works to English.
In Winter quarter, Nazry's first course at the UW was "Speculative and Science Fiction of Southeast Asia," exploring selected literature and films from Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.
Welcome Nazry!