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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

Lecturer in Creative Digital Media

Dr Marcus Gilroy-Ware

Attention economy, misinformation, platforms, digital imperialism, propaganda, surveillance capitalism, political culture, identity, representation.

Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies

Dr Michael W Thomas

Michael Thomas is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethiopian Screen Worlds on the ERC-funded project “African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies”.

Lecturer in Cultural and Media Theory

Dr Simon Webster-Kogen

Lecturer in the Arts and Visual Cultures of Modern China

Dr Panpan Yang

Arts and visual cultures of China and the Sinophone world; cinematic arts; animation and digital media; art theory; medium and materiality; cultural flows.

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Lecturer in Media in Development and International Journalisms

Dr Somnath Batabyal

South Asia with a focus on India; transnational news spheres; Development discourses and its articulation in mainstream and alternate news forums; environmental politics.

Professorial Research Associate

Professor Rachel Dwyer

Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay

Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies

Professor Andrew Gerstle

Japanese literature, drama and thought, primarily of the Tokugawa period, with particular interest in Bunraku and Kabuki theatre and the plays of Chikamatsu

Reader in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture

Dr Marlé Hammond

Reader in Arabic Popular Literature 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

Reader in Contemporary Japanese Culture

Dr Griseldis Kirsch

Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.

Research Associate

Dr Kevin Latham

China: Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (PRC) Chinese media, newspapers, television, journalism, popular culture, Internet and telecommunications, theatre, anthropological knowledge, practice and performance

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

Director, Centre for Global Media and Communication, School of Law

Professor Dina Matar

Middle East, especially Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, international political communication; media and conflict; critical global media studies; activism and media; social movements; memory studies and oral history; diasporas and ethnic minorities.

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

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.

Dr John Parker

John is Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa at SOAS.

Reader in the History of Africa

Dr Marie Rodet

Dr Marie Rodet's principal research interests lie in Modern African history, gender history, history of slavery, public history, gamification, and digital humanities.

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Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

Media in the Middle East with particular focus on Iran; diasporas and transnational media; islamophobia; shi’i Islam in the West; third Cinema; big data and digital methods.

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Dr Marcus Gilroy-Ware

Dr Michael W Thomas

Dr Simon Webster-Kogen

Dr Panpan Yang

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Dr Somnath Batabyal

Professor Rachel Dwyer

Professor Andrew Gerstle

Dr Marlé Hammond

Professor Rachel V Harrison

Dr Griseldis Kirsch

Dr Kevin Latham

Dr Xiaoning Lu

Professor Dina Matar

Dr Ben Murtagh

Professor Wen-chin Ouyang

Dr John Parker

Dr Marie Rodet

Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

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Joseph Owen Jackson

Members

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Professor Lindiwe Dovey

Dr Marcus Gilroy-Ware

Dr Michael W Thomas

Dr Simon Webster-Kogen

Dr Panpan Yang

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Dr Somnath Batabyal

Professor Rachel Dwyer

Professor Andrew Gerstle

Dr Marlé Hammond

Professor Rachel V Harrison

Dr Griseldis Kirsch

Dr Kevin Latham

Dr Xiaoning Lu

Professor Dina Matar

Dr Ben Murtagh

Professor Wen-chin Ouyang

Dr John Parker

Dr Marie Rodet

Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

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Mr Laurence Green

Joseph Owen Jackson

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