Nazry Bahrawi

Nazry Bahrawi is an assistant professor of Southeast Asian Literature and Culture at the University of Washington-Seattle. 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.

Fields of Interest

• Decoloniality
• Literary Islam
• Malay and Indonesian literature and film
• Speculative and Science Fiction
• Southeast Asian
• Animal Studies
• Race and Ethnicity

Education

• PhD University of Warwick (2009 — 2012)
• MSc The University of Edinburgh (2008 — 2009)

Companies

• Assistant Professor University of Washington (2021)
• Editor At Large Wasafiri Magazine (2021)
• Senior Lecturer Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) (2018 — 2021)
• Lecturer Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) (2013 — 2018)
• Research Fellow National University of Singapore (2013 — 2016)
• Visiting Scholar Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2016 — 2016)
• Commentator South China Morning Post (2010 — 2012)
• Doctoral Researcher University of Warwick (2009 — 2012)
• Associate Lecturer/Tutor and Course Writer SIM University (2011 — 2012)

Selected Research

• Nazry Bahrawi. "Reading signs and languages as historiography. A review of Syed Hussein Alatas’ Thomas Stamford Raffles". Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, vol. 43, no. 1, Jan 2022, pp. 108-10.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Speculative Verses of Islam in Singapore Malay Literature". The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia, edited by Iulia Lumina, Edinburgh UP, 2022, pp.17-32.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Were-tigers in Were-texts: Cultural Translation and Indigeneity in the Malay Archipelago". Translation Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures, edited by Grace V.S. Chin, Routledge, 2021, pp. 66-81.
• Nazry Bahrawi, editor and translator. Singa-Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore. Ethos Books, 2021.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Rindu Rustic: Singapore Nostalgias in Modern Malay Prose". Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, July 2019, pp. 504-520.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Mohsin Hamid's War on Error: The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a Post-Truth Novel". CounterText, vol. 4, no. 2, August 2018, pp. 256-80.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Mecca of Myths: Melaka in Two Hikayats". Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings. Special Issue - Postcolonial City: Southeast Asia, vol. 18, no. 2, December 2018, pp. 24-33.
• Mohamed Latiff Mohamed. Lost Nostalgia: Stories, translated by Nazry Bahrawi, Ethos Books, 2017.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "George E. Dutton (ed.). Voices of Southeast Asia: Essential Readings from Antiquity to the Present. Armonk, New York; London, England: ME Sharpe, 2014. 235 pp". TRaNS: Trans-Regional and-National Studies of Southeast Asia, volume 4, no. 2, June 2016, pp. 433-35.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "A Thousand and One Rewrites: Translating Modernity in the Arabian Nights." Journal of World Literature, vol. 1, no. 3, January 2016, pp. 357-70.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Multiculturalism", The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, edited by Sangeetha Ray and Henry Schwarz, January 2016. Wiley Online Library. Accessed 26 January 2022.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Utopia". The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, edited by Sangeetha Ray and Henry Schwarz, January 2016. Wiley Online Library. Accessed 26 Jan 2022.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Racialism in the Archipelago". Critical Muslim (Power), vol. 14, C. Hurst & Co., April 2015, pp. 119-28.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Textual Desires: Literature and Islam in the Malay Archipelago". Critical Muslim (Muslim Archipelago), vol. 7, April 2014, pp. 69-79.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Incest Performed: The Neocolonial Perversion of Translation in Malaysia". Translation and Global Asia: Relocating Networks of Cultural Production, edited by Uganda Sze-pui Kwan and Lawrence Wang-chi Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2014, pp. 243-64.
• Nadiputra. Muzika Lorong Buang Kok, translated by Nazry Bahrawi, Cokelat, 2012.
• Nazry Bahrawi. "Fictionalizing the Utopian Impulse as Postsecular Islam: An East-West Odyssey". Literature and Theology, vol. 25, no. 3, September 2011, pp. 329-46.