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Centre for Media and Film Studies

PhD Student profiles

Doctoral Research Students' Biographies

Students pursuing their doctoral research in the Media & Film Studies programme at SOAS cover a wide range of both media practices and geographic regions. Below is a partial list of students who are currently enrolled in the PhD programme:

  • Paolo D’Urbano - The Muslim Brotherhood and new media in Egypt
  • Rounwah Bseiso - Art and the production of space in post-revolutionary Egypt
  • Ghazal Seif - Counter-authoritarian discourses in Egyptian blogs pre-2011
  • Matti Pohjonen - Theory and Practice in cultural translation of international news in Mumbai
  • Angad Chowdhry - Representations of sexuality, consumerism and crime as objects of fear in the Indian mass media
  • Nanang Endrayanto - Dialogues about Monolog: openness and undecidability in contemporary performances in Indonesia
  • Taghreed Elsanhouri - Contested representations of Sudan: covering the nation in war and peace
  • Natalia Theodoridou - After theatre: a metaphysical analysis of performance practices in Bali and the problem of audiences
  • Fong Xiao Rong - The cultural production of fear in Singapore: a dialogue between film and television’