Centre Members
Steering Committee
Isolde Standish
Chair
East Asian film and visual media
- Tel: 020 7898 4227
- Email: is16@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 574
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:00 - 11:00
Griseldis Kirsch
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
Rachel V Harrison
- Tel: 020 7898 4247
- Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 455
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:00 - 17:00
Lindiwe Dovey
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
Rossella Ferrari
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
Marie Rodet
Modern West African history, especially social and gender history of Western Mali, history of West African slavery and emancipation.
- Tel: 020 7898 4606
- Email: mr28@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 309
- Office Hours: All Year - Wednesdays 11am-1pm (during term time)
Members
Rachel Dwyer
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
Ben Murtagh
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
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. - Tel: 020 7898 4348
- Email: wo@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 435
- Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00/Wednesdays 12:00-13:00
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
Xiaoning Lu
Chinese-language cinemas, film history and criticism, global socialist culture, and Chinese popular culture.
- Tel: 020 7898 4670
- Email: xl1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 453
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00 - 13;00
Christopher Gerteis
Modern and Contemporary Japanese history. Social and cultural history of the 20th century, especially the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4093
- Email: cg24@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 304
- On Sabbatical:AY 2012-13
John Parker
Early modern and modern West African history, especially social and political history of Ghana - Tel: 020 7898 4635
- Email: jp23@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 305
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 9am-12pm
Benjamin Fortna
Modern Middle Eastern History, the late Ottoman empire, late Ottoman education and literature - Tel: 020 7898 4632
- Email: bf7@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 300
- Office Hours: Mondays 2-3pm
Stephen P Hughes
India, especially the Tamil-speaking south, and Sri Lanka: popular cinema, media theory, historical anthropology and visual anthropology - Tel: 020 7898 4070
- Email: sh37@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 558
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11am-1pm
Kevin Latham
China: Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (PRC) Chinese media, newspapers, television, journalism, popular culture, Internet and telecommunications, theatre, anthropological knowledge, practice and performance - Tel: 020 7898 4423
- Email: kl1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 565
- Office Hours: All Year - Tuesdays 2-4pm (during term time)
Andrew David Jackson
Premodern and modern Korean history and society; modern South Korean cinema; theory of rebellion and revolution; the 1980 Kwangju uprising; teaching academic English.
- Tel: 020 7898 4601
- Email: aj15@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4409
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 - Tel: 020 7898 4207
- Email: ag4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 390
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 and by appointment
