Staff
Head of Department
Dr Dina Matar
Convenor, MA Global Cinemas & the Transcultural
Dr Isolde Standish
Convenor, MA Global Media & Post-National Communication / MA Critical Media & Cultural Studies
Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad
Research Tutor & Convenor
Professor Mark Hobart
Annabelle Sreberny
Professor of Global Media and Communications
Middle East with a special focus on Iran; cultural and media studies with a special interest in gender and democratisation.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4422
- Email: as98@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 587
- On Sabbatical:2011-12
Mark Hobart
Professor of Critical Media and Cultural Studies
South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali: cultural and media studies; philosophical issues and eurocentrism in the human sciences; media and performance.
- Tel: 020 7898 4415
- Email: mh5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 570
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Mondays 5-6pm (except 9th Jan 2012)
Dina Matar
Senior Lecturer in Arab Media and Political Communication
Director of Centre
- Tel: 0207 898 4696
- Email: dm27@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 575
- Office Hours: Mondays 2-4pm / Wednesdays 1-3pm
Isolde Standish
Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies
East Asian film and visual media
- Tel: 020 7898 4227
- Email: is16@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 574
- On Sabbatical:2011-12
Teaching Fellows
Gareth Bentley
Senior Teaching Fellow
I am interested in the discourses around international journalistic objectivity and emotion. I am also interested in social processes of conflict and alienation, particularly in the reporting of conflict and trauma.
- Tel: 020 7898 4818
- Email: gb13@soas.ac.uk
- Room: F105
Kanako Terasawa
Senior Teaching Fellow
- Tel: 020 7898 4227
- Email: kt11@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 574
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Thursdays 11:30-12:30 (term time only)
Atef Alshaer
Leverhulme Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Political Communication
Linguistics, Arabic Literature and history and Politics of the Arab World.
- Tel: 020 7898 4675
- Email: aa134@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4416
Research Associates
Lina Khatib
Research Associate
Lina Khatib lectures at the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she teaches media theory, non-Western cinemas and international television.
- Email: lk8@soas.ac.uk
Alessandra Lopez y Royo
Research Associate
Alessandra specialises in the study of dance performance and media, especially photography. She has done extensive research in Indonesia and also in India. She has to her credit numerous publications.
- Email: al19@soas.ac.uk
Massoumeh Torfeh
Research Associate
Massoumeh Torfeh, has been appointed UN Director of Strategic Communication and Spokesperson for Afghanistan and is a former senior producer in BBC World Service, specializes on the politics and media of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
- Email: mt69@soas.ac.uk
Somnath Batabyal
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg working within the Excellence Cluster, South Asia Centre. The research project titled “Environmental Activism: An Ontology of the actors and their politics” is an analytical study of the politics of environmental discourse between the Global North and South and the role of media.
- Email: som@soas.ac.uk
Associate Members
Stephen Chan, OBE
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
Politics of southern Africa, normative values and non-Western methodologies
- Tel: 020 7898 4655
- Email: sc5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 262
- Office Hours: By appointment only
Lindiwe Dovey
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
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
Rachel Dwyer
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
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
- Office Hours: Tuesday 10-10.30; Wednesday 12-12.30
Narguess Farzad
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
Persian language and literature. Organiser of SOAS-Cambridge Undergraduate workshops - Tel: 020 7898 4346
- Email: nf1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 440
Rossella Ferrari
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
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
Rachel V Harrison
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4247
- Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 455
Sian Hawthorne
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
Feminist Philosophy; Myth and Mythmaking; Critical Theory; Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender.
- Tel: 020 7898 4215
- Email: sh79@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 341
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 10am-12pm (during term time)
Dana Healy
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
Vietnamese language and literature, language teaching; folk literature, modern poetry, theatre, art - Tel: 020 7898 4252
- Email: dh4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 465
Michel Hockx
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4222
- Email: mh17@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 394
Stephen P Hughes
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
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: Term 2 - Wednesdays 11am-1pm (during term time)
Griseldis Kirsch
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
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
Kevin Latham
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
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)
Xiaoning Lu 陆小宁
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
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
Dolores P Martinez
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
Japan, maritime anthropology, religion, gender, anthropology of tourism, mass media, local and global film traditions - Tel: 020 7898 4425
- Email: dm6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 567
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Mon / Wed 1-3pm (or by apt)
Nima Mina
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
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
Ben Murtagh
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
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
- On Sabbatical:Term 2
Wen-Chin Ouyang
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
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
Parvathi Raman
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
The Indian Community in South Africa; Politics and identity in South Africa; African and Asian Communities in Britain; Political and cultural issues in Diaspora Studies; Historical anthropology; Philosophical issues in anthropology. - Tel: 020 7898 4434
- Email: pr1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 571
- Office Hours: Term 1 - Mondays 11am-1pm / Thursdays 3-4pm
Sallehuddin bin Abdullah Sani
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
Indonesian language
- Tel: 020 7898 4256
- Email: sa38@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 450
Justin Watkins
Burmese language and literature; Mon-Khmer and Tibeto-Burman languages; phonetics and speech acoustics; computer lexicography; sign languages in South East Asia
- Tel: 020 7898 4254
- Email: jw2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 462
- Office Hours: Email for an appointment
