Members
Centre Steering Committee
Defeng Li
Centre Chair
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
Bernhard Fuehrer
Ex-officio Steering Committee 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
Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE
Steering Committee Member for Arabic
Qur’an, Hadith, Tafsir; Islam in society; classical and modern Arabic literature - Tel: 020 7898 4325
- Email: ha4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 427
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-13:00/Wednesdays 12:00-13:00
Song Lianyi
Steering Committee Member for Chinese
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
Mika Kizu
Deputy Chair & Steering Committee Member for Japanese
Theoretical Linguistics; Syntax; Japanese Linguistics; Second Language Acquisition - Tel: 020 7898 4224
- Email: mk89@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 383
Grace Koh
Steering Committee Member for Korean
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
Nima Mina
Steering Committee Member for Persian
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
Chege Githiora
Steering Committee Member for Swahili
Swahili and Gĩkũyũ Language and Linguistics. Translation and Literacy in African Languages. Culture and Society of East Africa, Latin America and the African Diaspora. - Tel: 020 7898 4395
- Email: cg17@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 412
- On Sabbatical:2012-13
Members
Cosima Bruno
Member, Centre for Translation 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
Nada Elzeer
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
Arabic language and translation - Tel: 020 7898 4340
- Email: ne5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 432
- Office Hours: On leave 2012/13
Gao Wan Li
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
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
Andrew R George
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
Cuneiform and Ancient Mesopotamian studies - Tel: 020 7898 4335
- Email: ag5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 414
- Office Hours: E-mail for appointment
- On Sabbatical:2012-13
Andrew Gerstle
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
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
Rachel V Harrison
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
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
Nathan W. Hill
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
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
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4222
- Email: mh17@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 394
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:30-16:30/Wednesdays 15:30-16:30
Shin-Ichiro Okajima
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4874
- Email: s.okajima@soas.ac.uk
- Room: T209
Jeff Opland
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
Folklore and oral literature; African praise poetry; the history of Xhosa literature
- Email: jo8@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 432
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:00 - 16:00
Martin Orwin
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
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
Zhaoxia Pang
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4257
- Email: zp1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 480
- Office Hours: Mondays 16:00-17:00/Tuesdays 15:00-16:00
David A Smyth
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
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
Lik Suen
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
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
Hanne-Ruth Thompson
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
Structural and descriptive linguistics, syntax, semantics, Bengali grammar and lexicography, philosophy of language
- Email: hr@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 468
Amina Yaqin
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
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
