Staff
Head of Department
Dr Dina Matar
Research Tutor
Professor Annabelle Sreberny
Convenor, MA Global Media and Post-National Communication. MA Tutor
Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad
Convenor, MA Critical Media and Cultural Studies
Dr Jaeho Kang
Convenor, MA Media in Development
Dr Somnath Batabyal
Annabelle Sreberny
Professor of Global Media and Communications
Middle East, especially Iran; gender and democratization; diasporic cultures; ‘small media’ and political change.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4422
- Email: as98@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 587
- Office Hours: Mondays 1-2pm or by email appointment
Somnath Batabyal
Lecturer in Media and Development
South Asia with a focus on India; transnational news spheres with a special focus on India; Development discourses in India and its articulation in mainstream and alternate news forums; environmental politics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4415
- Email: sb127@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 570
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 3-5pm
Jaeho Kang
Lecturer in Critical Media and Cultural Studies
Critical Theory; Media Theory; East Asian Media and Cultural Studies; Media Spectacle and Uran Space in East Asian Cities; Screen Culture in Korea; New Media and Democracy in Korea; Global Sports Events (the Olympics and the World Cup)
- Tel: 020 7898 4585
- Email: jk71@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 510
- Office Hours: Term 2 - Thursdays 5-7pm
Dina Matar
Senior Lecturer in Arab Media and Political Communication
Director of Centre
Middle East, especially the Arab world; international political communication; Arab cultural politics; Arab cultural studies; memory studies and oral history; Islamist movements; social movements and media; diasporas; ethnic minorities; transnational movements and communications.
- Tel: 0207 898 4696
- Email: dm27@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 575
- Office Hours: Mondays 2-4pm
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
Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad
Senior Teaching Fellow
- Tel: 020 7898 4422
- Email: sz10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 587
- Office Hours: Fridays 1-2pm
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
Fernando Resende
Visiting Research Scholar
Study of narratives of conflicts and diasporic movements; theory and philosophy of communication; journalism; culture; comparative media and documentary studies; critical cultural studies and the impact of geopolitical discursive relations (narratives and conflicts) on the imaged geographies of East/West and, in particular, the imagination of Palestine and Africa by Brazil and England (XIX and XX).
- Email: fr5@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
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: 253
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 2-3pm
- On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2012-13
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
- On Sabbatical:2012-13
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
- On Sabbatical:2012-13, Terms 1 & 2
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
- Office Hours: Mondays 13:30 -14:30, Wednesdays 13:00- 14:00
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
- Office Hours: Term 2 Mondays 12:00 - 14:00
Rachel V Harrison
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4247
- Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 455
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:00 - 17:00
Sian Hawthorne
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
Narrativity; Cultural Memory; Religion and Gender; Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial theory; Postsecularism and gender; Intellectual history in the study of religions.
- Tel: 020 7898 4215
- Email: sh79@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 337
- 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
Mark Hobart
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
South East Asia, Indonesia, Bali: cultural and media studies; philosophical issues and eurocentrism in the human sciences; media and performance.
- Email: mh5@soas.ac.uk
Michel Hockx
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4222
- Email: mh17@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 394
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:30-16:30/Wednesdays 15:30-16:30
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: Wednesdays 11am-1pm
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
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00 and by appointment
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
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
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00 - 13;00
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: Mondays 4-5pm (or by Appointment)
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
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 13:00-15:00 / Thursdays 11:00-13:00
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
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00 / Thursdays 12:00-13:00
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
- Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00/Wednesdays 12:00-13:00
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: Wednesdays 11am-1pm or by Appointment
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
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-13:00/Thursdays 12:00-13:00
Isolde Standish
East Asian film and visual media
- Tel: 020 7898 4227
- Email: is16@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 574
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:00 - 11:00
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
- On Sabbatical:Academic Year 2012-2013
