Nazry Bahrawi (he/dia)

Nazry Bahrawi is an assistant professor of Southeast Asian literature and culture at the University of Washington in Seattle. Trained in comparative literature, he specializes in the decolonial study of genre fiction (specifically, folklore, speculative fiction and science fiction) from Southeast Asia and its diasporas in the US and elsewhere. His current research examines the intersections between animal folklores and racial discourses in Malay-Indonesian literary texts, films and visual art under the ambit of Global Asias as method. He has published on indigeneity, racialism, folklore, literary Islam and translation in maritime Southeast Asia in relation to global Anglophone texts and films. Nazry has held visiting fellowships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Brighton, the UK's National Centre for Writing and the Toji Cultural Center in South Korea. He is an editor-at-large at Wasafiri literary magazine for international contemporary writing and serves as a member of the editorial team at Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature. As a literary practitioner, Nazry has translated Malay literary works to English and published short stories.