Anselma Prihandita, an instructor in the Department of Asian Languages & Literature graduating this month with a PhD in language and rhetoric from the UW Department of English, has been awarded the prestigious Nebula Award for best novelette for her story titled "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being," published November 2024 in Clarkesworld magazine. As she describes in a profile published in the College of Arts & Sciences' Perspectives newsletter, her winning composition is in essence a translation of the themes of her dissertation into story form -- "a way to work through scholarly questions and theoretical concepts from my research," Prihandita says. During her time at UW, Prihandita has studied with AL&L's Prof. Nazry Bahrawi, and credits Prof. Bahrawi's course on Southeast Asian speculative fiction as pushing her to explore the connections between her scholarly research and her own creative practice. This past spring, with Prof. Bahrawi on a quarter-long leave, Prihandita stepped in to teach the very course, "ASIAN 207: Science and Speculative Fiction of Southeast Asia," that had inspired her.
Read the full profile on Anselma Prihandita in the College of Arts & Sciences' Perspectives newsletter.