Reuven Pinnata
Assistant Professor
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian-American Literatures, Medias, and Cultures
Office: RH 226
Email: rpinnata@niu.edu
Educational Background
- Ph.D., English Literature, University of Washington, Seattle
- M.A., English Literature, University of Washington, Seattle
- B.A., English Literature, summa cum laude, with honors, University of Washington, Seattle
Professional Interests
- Postcolonial and world literature, with special emphasis on Indonesian and Dutch East Indian literature
Selected Awards
- 2023-2024, Christen J. Grorud Endowed Memorial Fellowship, Southeast Asia Center, University of Washington
- 2023-2024, Society of Scholars Fellowship, The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington
- 2023, Thomas W. and Mary Kay Gething Award, Southeast Asia Center, University of Washington
Selected Publications
- “People Everywhere: Three Books on Authoritarianism and Resistance,” review of Vicente Rafael’s The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte, Max Lane’s Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship, and Budi Darma’s People from Bloomington, Wasafiri, December 2023/Winter, pp. 102–105
