Department Staff
Head of Department
Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Tutors
Ms Lik Suen (Year 1)
Dr Song Lianyi (Year 2)
Ms Gao Wan Li (Year 3)
Dr Cosima Bruno (Year 4)
Dr Nathan Hill (Tibetan courses)
Postgraduate Tutor
Maria Af Sandeberg
Research Associate
Modern Chinese literature and literary thought; gender studies
- Email: ms119@soas.ac.uk
Cosima Bruno
Mellon Lecturer in China Studies
Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4421
- Email: cb65@soas.ac.uk
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
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
Gao Wan Li
Senior Lector in Chinese
Chinese language teaching
- Tel: 020 7898 4234
- Email: wg@soas.ac.uk
Nathan Hill
Senior Lector in Tibetan
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: 395
Michel Hockx
Professor of Chinese
Modern Chinese literature and language; Chinese writers and writings from the late imperial and republican periods, with emphasis on modern poetry and on the sociology of modern Chinese literature
- Tel: 020 7898 4222
- Email: mh17@soas.ac.uk
Andrew H-B Lo
Senior Lecturer in Chinese
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
Song Lianyi
Principal Teaching Fellow
Modern Chinese language and language pedagogy
- Tel: 020 7898 4226
- Email: ls2@soas.ac.uk
Lik Suen
Senior Lector in Chinese
Modern Chinese languages; language pedagogy
- Tel: 020 7898 4264
- Email: lx@soas.ac.uk
Tian Yuan Tan
Lecturer in Traditional Chinese Literature and Culture
Pre-modern Chinese literature, with emphasis on drama, songs, and fiction in the later dynasties; Chinese literary history and historiography; court theatre and performance; local literary communities and traditions
- Tel: 020 7898 4570
- Email: tt26@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 396
- On Sabbatical:2009-2010
