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Dr Keya Anjaria

Modern Turkish Literature; Comparative Literature; World Literature; the Novel; Turkish Language and Culture

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.

Reader in South East Asian Studies

Dr Mulaika Hijjas

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

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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.

Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature (Education)

Dr Filippo Cervelli

Dr Filippo Cervelli's research explores representations of individual and social crises across modern and contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture.

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

Reader 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

Lecturer in African Studies

Dr Carmen McCain

African 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 Global Liberal Arts

Dr Ana Nenadović

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

Dr Althea-Maria Rivas draws upon critical, feminist and decolonial theoretical frameworks, and employs innovative grounded methodologies, such as photovoice, storying and narratives to explore debates in the field of conflict, security and development.

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

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Dr Arshad Ali

Youth cultural studies/production, transnational & diasporic Muslim youth identities; race, gender & culture in education; qualitative research methodologies.

Dr May Witwit

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Research Associate

Dr Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev

Armenian History and Culture

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

Members

Centre Steering Committee

Dr Keya Anjaria

Professor Rachel V Harrison

Professor Wen-chin Ouyang

Dr Mulaika Hijjas

Dr Grace Koh

Dr Cosima Bruno

Members

Dr Seyed Ali Alavi

Dr Helen Blatherwick

Dr James Caron

Dr Filippo Cervelli

Dr Yorgos Dedes

Professor Lindiwe Dovey

Dr Marlé Hammond

Dr Sian Hawthorne

Dr Dana Healy

Professor Angela Impey

Dr Xiaoning Lu

Dr Carmen McCain

Dr Ben Murtagh

Dr Ana Nenadović

Dr Anandi Rao

Dr Althea-Maria Rivas

Dr Renate Söhnen-Thieme

Dr Yair Wallach

Associate members

Dr Arshad Ali

Dr May Witwit

Research Associates

Dr Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev

Professor Rachel Dwyer

Professor Michael J Hutt

Dr Vayu Naidu

Dr Annie Webster

Research Fellows

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