Department of South East Asian Studies Staff
Head of Department
Personal Advisors
Year 1 - Please note that all Year 1 UG students have been allocated an individual personal advisor
Year 2 - Dr David Smyth
Years 3/4 - Dr Ben Murtagh
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Programme Convenors
Dr David Smyth (BA South East Asian Studies & BA Thai, BA Thai plus another subject)
Mr John Okell (BA Burmese plus another subject)
Dr Ben Murtagh (BA Indonesian, BA Indonesian plus another subject)
Dr Dana Healy (BA Vietnamese plus another subject)
Postgraduate Programme Convenor
Dr David Smyth (MA Pacific Asian Studies, MA Languages and Cultures of South East Asia, MA South East Asian Studies)
Research Tutor
Please note that for Masters Students the Admissions Tutor and Personal Tutor is the Postgraduate Programme Convenor.
Readers
Rachel V Harrison
Reader in Thai Cultural Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4247
- Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 455
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:00 - 17:00
Senior Lecturers
Ben Murtagh
Senior Lecturer in Indonesian and Malay
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
Dana Healy
Senior Lecturer in Vietnamese
Head of the Department of South East Asia
Vietnamese language and literature, language teaching; folk literature, modern poetry, theatre, art - Tel: 020 7898 4252
- Email: dh4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 465
David A Smyth
Senior Lecturer in Thai
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
Justin Watkins
Senior Lecturer in the Languages and Linguistics of South East Asia
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
Lecturers
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Mulaika Hijjas
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Literature, film, gender and cultural studies, social history.
- Email: mh86@soas.ac.uk
Lectors
Vantana Cornwell
Lector in Thai
Thai language pedagogy
- Tel: 020 7898 4255
- Email: vc1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 450
- Office Hours: Thursdays 13:00-14:00
Sallehuddin bin Abdullah Sani
Lector in Indonesian
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
Teaching Fellows
Writer-in-Residence
Sue Guiney
Sue Guiney joins SOAS in 2011 as the Department of South East Asia's first Writer-in-Residence. She brings a wealth of experience as a writer, poet and teacher. During her time at SOAS she will and promote the activity of writing throughout the SOAS community with workshops for students and staff, and a weekly one-to-one writing surgery.
- Email: sue@guineyuk.com
- Room: 466
- Office Hours: Wednesdays from 11am
Research Associates
Vladimir I Braginsky
Professorial Research Associate
Malay and Indonesian classical and modern literature and culture; Islam in the Malay-Indonesian world; Islamic literature of South East Asia; comparative study of South East Asian literatures; Malay philology and traditional literature sufism in Malay literature - Tel: 020 7898 4245
- Email: vb1@soas.ac.uk
E Ulrich Kratz
Traditional Malay philology; the contemporary literatures, cultures and societies of the Malay-speaking world; Malay society; Malay culture; Malay history; Malay politics; Malay religion - Email: uk1@soas.ac.uk
John Okell
Research Associate
Burmese/Myanmar language, linguistics, literature
- Email: jo@soas.ac.uk
Raquel Reyes
Research Fellow
Cultural studies, sexuality, history of medicine, Philippines and South East Asia.
- Email: rr14@soas.ac.uk
