Lecturer in Comparative Literature Dr Keya Anjaria Modern Turkish Literature; Comparative Literature; World Literature; the Novel; Turkish Language and Culture
Professor of Thai Cultural Studies Professor Rachel V Harrison Modern Thai Cultural Studies, Cinema and Literature; gender studies with reference to Thailand; literary criticism and South East Asian Literatures in a comparative context; Western film set in South East Asia
Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature Professor Wen-chin Ouyang Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse.
Lecturer in Korean Literature Dr Grace Koh Korean and East Asian literary traditions (prose and fiction); literary and intellectual history; travel literature and cultural encounters; critical theory and comparative literature
Reader in Chinese Literature Dr Cosima Bruno Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies; Chinese language art; Sinophone literatures
Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Iranian Studies Dr Seyed Ali Alavi MA Iranian Studies, Critical Perspective on Palestine Studies, Re-mapping Area Studies, Decolonising Otherness. Cultural, economic and political dynamics underpinning China's relations with the Middle East, with a special emphasis on nations such as Iran and the Arab States in West Asia.
Teaching Fellow for Arabic to English Translation; Research Associate Dr Helen Blatherwick Classical Arabic literature, Popular literature, Comparative literature
Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia Dr James Caron Islam in South Asia; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Indo-Persianate sociocultural history; transnational non-Western history; activism and social movements.
Senior Lecturer in Turkish Dr Yorgos Dedes Early Anatolian Turkish; Ottoman language and literature; Ottoman history; Turkish-Greek relations; modern Turkish culture
Professor of Film and Screen Studies Professor Lindiwe Dovey Decolonial feminist approaches to filmmaking, film cultures and screen media industries globally; practice/artistic research through film; feminist and ethical leadership in the arts and academia; digital transformations in screen media production, distribution, exhibition, curation, and spectatorship; film festivals and film curating
Reader in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture Dr Marlé Hammond Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture.
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Religion and Politics Dr Sian Hawthorne Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender; Intellectual history in the study of religions.
Senior Lecturer in Vietnamese Dr Dana Healy Modern Vietnamese cultural studies (literature, film, gender); Vietnamese social and cultural history (the Vietnam War; art and politics); the sociology of contemporary Vietnamese literature; the Vietnamese diaspora
Professor of Ethnomusicology Professor Angela Impey Music of southern Africa and the African Horn (Sudan); advocacy ethnomusicology; sound/music, memory and place; forced migration, cultural mapping and borderland identities; human rights and development
Reader in Modern Chinese Culture and Language Dr Xiaoning Lu Chinese film history and criticism; modern Chinese popular culture; visual culture and media technology; cultural governance; socialist modernity
Academic Staff, SOAS South Asia Institute Dr David Lunn 19th- and 20th-century Hindi and Urdu literature; cinema; music; journalism; north Indian literary history; intellectual history; literary translation; literary and cultural history of Southeast Asia; Malay; comparative literature; postcolonial studies.
Reader in Indonesian and Malay Dr Ben Murtagh Modern Indonesian cinema and literature; queer studies and sexuality in Indonesia; representation of genders and sexuality in Southeast Asian film and literatures; representation of HIV in Indonesian culture
Lecturer in South Asian Studies Dr Anandi Rao South Asian literature and film, translation, postcolonial theory, gender and sexuality studies
Senior Lecturer in Global Development, Peace & Conflict Dr Althea-Maria Rivas Humanitarian intervention, post-conflict reconstruction, the politics of global development, everyday violence in post-conflict settings, gender (in)security, violence and development, race, racism and development, peace and justice, emotion and conflict, the relationship between peace, forgiveness and justice, black and indigenous feminisms, feminist and decolonial theory and pedagogy, postcolonial conversations on resistance and development, research methods and ethics. Regional focus: Central Asia, West and East Africa.
Research Associate Dr Renate Söhnen-Thieme Sanskrit language and literature; classical Indian religions; folklore and music of Baltistan
Reader in Israeli Studies Dr Yair Wallach Social and cultural history of modern Palestine/Israel; material, visual and urban culture; history of textuality; race and antisemitism; migration and settler colonialism in Jewish history
Dr Arshad Ali Youth cultural studies/production, transnational & diasporic Muslim youth identities; race, gender & culture in education; qualitative research methodologies.
Dr Poonkulaly Gunaseelan South Asian literature in English; gender and sexuality; postcolonial and postcolonial feminist theory; Hindi cinema
Professorial Research Associate Professor Rachel Dwyer Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay
Professorial Research Associate Professor Michael J Hutt Nepali literature; the Nepali media; Nepali politics; Bhutanese refugees.
Research Associate Dr Vayu Naidu Historical research methods for fiction and creating text from crossing borders with oral traditions. Science and myths.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate Dr Annie Webster Modern Arabic Literature, Medical Humanities, New Materialism, Memory Studies
Itzea Goikolea-Amiano Gender Studies and Feminist Epistemology, Islam and Islamophobia, Spanish Colonialism in Morocco, and the History (Herstory), Culture, Literature and Politics of Colonial Morocco.
