Department Staff
Head of Department
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Programme Convenor
Prof. Andrew Lo (BA Chinese, BA Chinese Studies, BA Chinese plus another subject, BA Tibetan plus another subject)
Postgraduate Programme Convenors
Professor Michel Hockx (MA Chinese Literature & MA Sinology)
Dr Cosima Bruno (MA Chinese Studies)
Dr Dafydd Fell (MA Taiwan Studies)
Postgraduate Tutor
Please note that for Masters Students the Admissions Tutor and Personal Tutor is the MA Programme Convenor.
Academic Staff
Cosima Bruno
Mellon Lecturer in China Studies
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
Rossella Ferrari
Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and Language
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
Bernhard Fuehrer
Professor of Sinology
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
Nathan W. Hill
Lecturer in Tibetan and Linguistics (on research leave)
Tibetan language from Old Tibetan to Modern Standard Tibetan; Tibetan historical and biographical literature; Central Asian languages, in particular Mongolian; Chinese minorities - Email: nh36@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4407
Michel Hockx
Professor of Chinese
- Tel: 020 7898 4222
- Email: mh17@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 394
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:30-16:30/Wednesdays 15:30-16:30
Song Lianyi
Principal Teaching Fellow
Modern Chinese language and language pedagogy - Tel: 020 7898 4226
- Email: ls2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 397
- Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00/Thursdays 11:00-12:00
Andrew H-B Lo
Professor of Chinese
Head of Department of China and Inner Asia
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
Xiaoning Lu
Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and Language
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
Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅
Senior Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Literature and Culture
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
Senior Lectors
Yan Cui
Senior Lector in Chinese
Chinese language teaching, styles of modern Chinese literary language, Chinese rhetoric - Tel: 020 7898 4237
- Email: yc2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 382
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:05-11.35 V323/Wed. 11:05-12:35 E36/382
Wanli Gao
Senior Lector in Chinese
Chinese language teaching - Tel: 020 7898 4234
- Email: wg@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 382
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-13:00 V322/Fridays 13:00-14:00 382
Lik Suen
Principal Lector in Chinese
Modern Chinese languages; language pedagogy - Tel: 020 7898 4264
- Email: lx@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 361
- Office Hours: Mondays 12:30-13:30/Wednesdays 11:30-13:00
Lectors
Zhaoxia Pang
Lector in Chinese
- Tel: 020 7898 4257
- Email: zp1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 480
- Office Hours: Mondays 16:00-17:00/Tuesdays 15:00-16:00
Senior Teaching Fellows
Maria Af Sandeberg
Research Associate
Senior Teaching Fellow in Chinese
Modern Chinese literature and literary thought; gender studies
- Email: ms119@soas.ac.uk
Teaching Fellows
Zinan Yan 顏子楠
Teaching Fellow
Classical Chinese Poetry (Ming & Qing dynasties)
- Email: zy6@soas.ac.uk
Research Associates
Bi-Yu Chang
Research Associate
Cultural construction; identity politics; spatial construction and cartographic representation; nation building and nationalism in relation to Taiwan and China. - Tel: 020 7898 4206
- Email: bc18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 204
- Office Hours: Mon 2-3 (or by appointment)
Mary Mazzilli
Teaching Assistant in Chinese Film and Theatre
Reserach Associate
Modern and contemporary Chinese Drama (with particular expertise on Gao Xingjian); Comparative Literature; Gender studies; Literary Theory
- Email: mm117@soas.ac.uk
