Department of South East Asian Studies Staff
Head of Department
Admissions Tutor
Undergraduate Tutor
Postgraduate Tutor
Vladimir I Braginsky
Professor of Languages and Literatures of South East Asia
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
Professor of Indonesian and Malay
Traditional Malay philology; the contemporary literatures, cultures and societies of the Malay-speaking world; Malay society; Malay culture; Malay history; Malay politics; Malay religion
- Tel: 020 7898 4246
- Email: uk1@soas.ac.uk
Rachel V Harrison
Senior Lecturer in Thai Cultural Studies
- Tel: 020 7898 4247
- Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk
Dana Healy
Senior Lecturer in Vietnamese
Vietnamese language and literature, language teaching; folk literature, modern poetry, theatre, art
- Tel: 020 7898 4252
- Email: dh4@soas.ac.uk
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
Justin Watkins
Senior Lecturer in Burmese (Myanmar)
Burmese language and literature; Mon-Khmer and Tibeto-Burman languages; phonetics; computer lexicography
- Tel: 020 7898 4254
- Email: jw2@soas.ac.uk
Ben Murtagh
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
Sallehuddin bin Abdullah Sani
Lector in Indonesian
Indonesian language
- Tel: 020 7898 4256
- Email: sa38@soas.ac.uk
Tharaphi Than
Lector in Burmese (Myanmar)
Burmese language, history and culture.
- Email: tt3@soas.ac.uk
John Okell
Research Associate
Burmese/Myanmar language, linguistics, literature
- Email: jo@soas.ac.uk
