Miranda Bruce-Mitford
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- Qualifications
- BA (Hons) (SOAS): Southeast Asian Studies, Burmese Language & Literature and Social Anthropology; MA (SOAS): Oriental Religious Studies
- Email address
- 542210@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- From Natural History to Wayang: The Collections and Collecting Practices of Thomas Stamford Raffles
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Louise Tythacott & Professor Stacey Pierson
Biography
I took both my degrees at SOAS,. For the MA in Oriental Religious Studies I took modules in Buddhist Art & Architecture of South and Southeast Asia, The Hindu Temple, and Chinese Philosophy. My MA dissertation was on fabulous beasts in Southeast Asian art. As a lecturer I cover various aspects of Southeast Asian art and ethnography.
Formerly tutor, now Course Convenor for Southeast Asia, SOAS Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Arts Have taught SOAS,MA students, lectured at the British Museum, Sothebys, the Victoria & Albert Museum
Research interests
- Southeast Asian Art
- History and culture
- The Raffles Collection
- Performance art
- Colonial collecting
- Burma