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Nazry Bahrawi is an assistant professor of Southeast Asian literature and culture at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is trained in comparative literature and specializes in the decolonial study of genre fiction, focusing on folklore and speculative fiction within the Southeast Asian diasporas. His current research examines the intersections of animal folklores and racial discourses in Malay-Indonesian literary texts, films, and visual art. Bahrawi has published works on indigeneity, racism, folklore, literary Islam, and translation in maritime Southeast Asia within global Anglophone texts and films. He has held visiting fellowships at prestigious institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Brighton, as well as at the UK's National Centre for Writing and Toji Cultural Center in South Korea. As an editor-at-large for the literary magazine Wasafiri, he contributes to international contemporary writing and serves on the editorial team for Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language Literature. Additionally, as a literary practitioner, he has translated Malay literary works into English and published short stories.
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