Professor in Translation Studies 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
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
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
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
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 Chinese (Education) Zhaoxia Pang Teaching Chinese as a foreign language; Norms and practice in translation
Reader in Applied Japanese Linguistics Dr Barbara Pizziconi Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic politeness
Senior Lecturer in Japanese and Modern Japanese History (Education) Dr Satona Suzuki Modern Japanese history; modernity, imperialism and militarism. Social and political issues of contemporary Japan.
