Centre for Gender Studies
Dr Sophie Chamas
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies
- Department
- Centre for Gender Studies
- Qualifications
- MA (New York University), PhD (University of Oxford)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- C424
- Email address
- sc118@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Sophie Chamas's research sits at the intersection of feminist and queer political theory, Middle East studies, social movement studies, and cultural studies. Overall, their work explores the life, death, and afterlife of the radical political imagination in the Middle East and its diaspora.
They have written about the evolving nature of queerphobia as a means of authorising state power in the Middle East; queer Arab re-imaginings of both queerness and Arabness and the potentiality of their dialectical relationship; the effects of ghosts and hauntings from bygone moments of political possibility on the present and future of Middle East-related social movements; and the role that affect and sociality play in the reproduction of social movements in the region and its diaspora.
All of their research is informed by what anthropologist Hirokazu Miyazaki calls 'hope as method' (2004) – a dedication to exploring what is not yet rather than what has already become.
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Lina Ashour | |
| Tanvi Kanchan | Digital Decolonial Queerness: Assertions and Negotiations in Indian Women’s Online Communities |
