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Members of the Centre for Translation Studies.

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Professor Nana Sato-Rossberg

Professor Nana Sato-Rossberg is the Chair of the Centre for Translation Studies. Her research interests include history of translation studies in Japan, intergeneric translations (manga to film), translation of oral narratives or orality, cultural translation, and the relationship between translation and power.

Senior Lecturer in Swahili (Education)

Dr Ida Hadjivayanis

Swahili studies, African Studies, Translation Theory and Practice, Indian Ocean Networks

Lecturer in East Asian Translation Studies (Education)

Dr Gloria Lee

Translation as practice; Translation Pedagogy; Agency; Sociology of translation; Translator’s style and voice; Translation in the media; Discourse analysis; Translation discourse in modern China; Translation Theory; Translation and literary criticism.

Professor of General and African Linguistics

Professor Lutz Marten

Bantu languages and linguistics; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; historical linguistics; language and society in Eastern and Southern Africa

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

Principal Teaching Fellow

Dr Song Lianyi

Modern Chinese language and language pedagogy

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King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies

Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE

Qur’an, Hadith, Tafsir; Islam in society; classical and modern Arabic literature

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

Reader in Chinese Literature

Dr Cosima Bruno

Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies; Chinese language art; Sinophone literatures

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.

Head of Department

Dr Alan Cummings

Alan has been teaching at SOAS since 2000 in a broad range of areas ranging from East Asian cultural history, pre-modern Japanese language and literature, Japanese classical theatre, and translation.

Senior Lecturer in Turkish

Dr Yorgos Dedes

Early Anatolian Turkish; Ottoman language and literature; Ottoman history; Turkish-Greek relations; modern Turkish culture

Senior Lecturer in Arabic (Education)

Dr Nada Elzeer

Arabic language and translation

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

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

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

Reader in Tibetan and Historical Linguistics

Dr Nathan W. Hill

Tibetan language from Old Tibetan to Modern Standard Tibetan; Tibetan historical and biographical literature; historical, descriptive and corpus linguistics, in particular with reference to Tibetan or other Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan languages; Chinese minorities; Mongolian

Professorial Research Associate

Professor Michael J Hutt

Nepali literature; the Nepali media; Nepali politics; Bhutanese refugees.

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and the Languages of China

Dr Yan JIANG 蔣嚴蒋严

Semantics, pragmatics, Chinese linguistics

Dr Youkyung Ju-Zaveroni

Youkyung Ju-Zaveroni is a Lecturer in Korean Language at SOAS University of London.

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.