Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS): Staff at SOAS

Ayman El-Desouky

Comparative Literature, 19th and 20th Century Arabic Literature, hermeneutics, modern philosophy and theory.

Tel: 020 7898 4355
Email: ad48@soas.ac.uk
Room: 423
On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012

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

Tel: 020 7898 4247
Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 455
Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:00 - 17:00

Grace Koh

Member

Korean and East Asian literary traditions (prose and fiction); literary and intellectual history; travel literature and cultural encounters; critical theory and comparative literature

Tel: 020 7898 4290
Email: gk5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 385
Office Hours: Fridays 11:00-13:00

Amina Yaqin

Member

Urdu language and literature; post-colonial literature and theory; gender studies; South Asian literatures in English; feminism in a Third World context; gender and politics in Pakistan

Tel: 020 7898 4305
Email: ay@soas.ac.uk
Room: 470
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00

Stephen Dodd

Member

Modern Japanese literature, with particular interest in representations of the native place (furusato), gender/sexuality and modernity

Tel: 020 7898 4216
Email: sd5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 381
Office Hours: Wednesdays 15:00-16:00 and by appointment

Kai Easton

Member

Colonial and postcolonial studies, especially South African literature (the Cape, Wicomb, Coetzee); gender and the culture of travel; Indian Ocean diasporas; theories of fiction and history.

Tel: 020 7898 4373
Email: ke@soas.ac.uk
Room: 409
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00/Thursdays 15:00-16:00

Bernhard Fuehrer

Member

Classical Chinese philology, rhetoric, philosophy and literature; the history of Sinology in Europe; reception of the canon with specific reference to the Analects

Tel: 020 7898 4218
Email: bf3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 398
Office Hours: Please e-mail to make an appointment
On Sabbatical:2012-13

Dana Healy

Member

Vietnamese language and literature, language teaching; folk literature, modern poetry, theatre, art

Tel: 020 7898 4252
Email: dh4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 465

Michel Hockx

Member

Tel: 020 7898 4222
Email: mh17@soas.ac.uk
Room: 394
Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:30-16:30/Wednesdays 15:30-16:30

Michael J Hutt

Member

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

Tel: 020 7898 4286
Email: mh8@soas.ac.uk
Room: 448
Office Hours: Tuesdays 16:00-17:00/Thursdays 11:00-12:00

Francesca Orsini

Member

Hindi Literature; North Indian literary cultures; Hindi; Urdu.

Tel: 020 7898 4242
Email: fo@soas.ac.uk
Room: 419
Office Hours: Thursday 10:00 - 12:00

Nadje Al-Ali

Member

Women & gender in the Middle East; women’s movements and feminism in Middle East; secularism and Islamism; transnational migration, diaspora mobilization; gendering violence, war and peace; history of Iraqi women; impact of sanctions, war and occupation on Iraqi women, Iraq.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4547
Email: n.s.al-ali@soas.ac.uk
Room: 452A
Office Hours: Tuesday 10am-12pm

Helen Blatherwick

Member

Classical Arabic literature, Popular literature, Comparative literature

Tel: 020 7898 4385
Email: hb20@soas.ac.uk

Cosima Bruno

Member

Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies

Tel: 020 7898 4421
Email: cb65@soas.ac.uk
Room: 456
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00 and 14:00 - 15:00

Whitney Cox

Member

Sanskrit literature and literary theory, Tamil literature, intellectual and cultural history of South India, History of Saivism

Email: wc3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 458
On Sabbatical:2012-13

Alan Cummings

Tel: 020 7898 4200
Email: ac50@soas.ac.uk
Room: 391
Office Hours: Mondays 17:00-18:00/Fridays 16:00/17:00

George Dedes

Member

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

Tel: 020 7898 4344
Email: gd5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 424
Office Hours: Fridays 15:00-17:00

Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev

Armenian History and Culture

Email: lazarev@soas.ac.uk

Lindiwe Dovey

Member

African film and video (particularly their intersection); filmic mediations of African performance arts (music, dance, theatre); literary adaptation in Africa; contemporary film theory and 'World Cinema'; exile/immigration and violence in relation to African screen media; structures of film production, distribution, and exhibition in Africa; use of African languages in film

Tel: 020 7898 4388
Email: ld18@soas.ac.uk
Room: 404
On Sabbatical:2012-13

Rachel Dwyer

Member

Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay; Gujarati language and literature; Gujarati diaspora esp UK and East Africa; comparative Indian literature.

Tel: 020 7898 4294
Email: rd3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 457
On Sabbatical:2012-13, Terms 1 & 2

Rossella Ferrari

Member

Contemporary Chinese drama and film; theory and practice of the avant-garde; transnational Chinese culture

Tel: 020 7898 4047
Email: rf24@soas.ac.uk
Room: 399a
Office Hours: Term 2 Mondays 12:00 - 14:00

Graham Furniss

Member

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4366
Email: gf1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 110

Andrew Gerstle

Member

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

Tel: 020 7898 4207
Email: ag4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 390
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 and by appointment

Marlé Hammond

Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature & Culture.

Tel: 020 7898 4518
Email: mh93@soas.ac.uk
Room: 438
Office Hours: Tuesdays 13:00-14:00/Thursdays 12:00-13:00

Griseldis Kirsch

Member

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

Tel: 020 7898 4288
Email: gk10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 377
Office Hours: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00 and by appointment

Marianna Klar

Member, CCLPS

Classical Arabic literature, Islamic Prophetic Literature, Comparative literature

Karima Laachir

Member

Literary and cultural studies: postcolonial studies, diaspora studies and comparative literature

Tel: 020 7898 4336
Email: kl19@soas.ac.uk
Room: 365
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00

Defeng Li

Member

Cognitive approach to translation process, corpus-based translation studies, translation curriculum and material development, specialized translation (commercial, financial and journalistic), second language acquisition and teaching, experimental translation studies, qualitative research methodology

Tel: 020 7898 4298
Email: dl21@soas.ac.uk
Room: 406
Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-13:00/ Or by appointment

Andrew H-B Lo

Member

Chinese language (Cantonese and Mandarin); fiction and prose from the Ming-Qing periods; cultural activities of Ming and Qing scholars, especially games

Tel: 020 7898 4213
Email: al3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 393
Office Hours: Mondays 13:00-14:00 / Fridays 11:00-12:00

Nima Mina

Member

Classical and Modern Persian literature, Orientalism in 18th-20th century Europe, Middle Eastern minority writers in Europe, Diaspora studies, music performance, translation studies

Tel: 020 7898 4315
Email: nm46@soas.ac.uk
Room: 422
Office Hours: Tuesdays 13:00-15:00 / Thursdays 11:00-13:00

Ben Murtagh

Member

Traditional Malay and modern Indonesian literature; history of Indonesia. Film in Indonesia and Malaysia. Gender and sexuality in Indonesia

Tel: 020 7898 4248
Email: bm10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 466
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00 / Thursdays 12:00-13:00

Martin Orwin

Member

Somali language and literature; metrics and use of language in poetry; the relationship between language and music; Amharic.

Tel: 020 7898 4376
Email: mo1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 405
Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-13:00 / Thursdays 15:00-17:00

Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Jnr

Member

Post-colonial writing with special reference to anglophone and francophone African writing and African American writing; comparative national literatures; African literature and nationalism; gender in literature; literature and society in Southern Africa; African cultural studies with reference to the Akan of Ghana and the Igbo of Nigeria; literature and human rights in Africa.

Tel: 020 7898 4377
Email: ko9@soas.ac.uk
Room: 402
On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012

Wen-Chin Ouyang

Member

Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse.

Tel: 020 7898 4348
Email: wo@soas.ac.uk
Room: 435
Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00/Wednesdays 12:00-13:00

William Radice

Bengali language and literature; Tagore; Michael Madhusudan Dutt; 19th century Bengal; literary translation; poetry in Bangladesh.

Email: wr@soas.ac.uk
Room: 468

Alena Rettová

Member

Swahili literature; African philosophy; Afrophone philosophical discourses; literatures in African languages

Tel: 020 7898 4372
Email: ar42@soas.ac.uk
Room: 413
Office Hours: Thursdays 11:00 - 13:00

David A Smyth

Member

The Thai novel; Thai literary historiography; Thai language; modern Thai history

Tel: 020 7898 4253
Email: ds5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 452
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00 - 13:00

Renate Söhnen-Thieme

Member

Sanskrit language and literature; classical Indian religions; folklore and music of Baltistan

Tel: 020 7898 4293
Email: rs2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 376

Stefan Sperl

Member

Classical Arabic literature; medieval Arabic popular literature; court poetry and oral literature; refugee studies and refugee-related issues

Tel: 020 7898 4338
Email: ss6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 433
On Sabbatical:Term 1 2012

Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅

Member

Pre-modern Chinese literature, with emphasis on drama, fiction, and poetry in the later dynasties; Chinese literary history and historiography; court theatre and performance; cross-cultural interactions between China and other countries

Tel: 020 7898 4570
Email: tt26@soas.ac.uk
Room: 396
Office Hours: MON 15:00-16:00; FRI: 14:00-15:00

Louise Harrington

Associate Member

Comparative partitions; South Asian literature and film; Irish literature and film; colonial and postcolonial studies; transnational migration and diaspora studies.

Email: lh11@soas.ac.uk