Professor of Film and Screen Studies Professor Lindiwe Dovey Decolonial feminist approaches to filmmaking, film cultures and screen media industries globally; practice/artistic research through film; feminist and ethical leadership in the arts and academia; digital transformations in screen media production, distribution, exhibition, curation, and spectatorship; film festivals and film curating
Lecturer in Creative Digital Media Dr Marcus Gilroy-Ware Attention economy, misinformation, platforms, digital imperialism, propaganda, surveillance capitalism, political culture, identity, representation.
Senior Lecturer in Global Creative and Cultural Industries Dr Caspar Melville Specialist interest in popular music, the music industry, music of the Black Atlantic, Afro-diasporic music scenes and London music scenes.
Lecturer in the Arts and Visual Cultures of Modern China Dr Panpan Yang Arts and visual cultures of China and the Sinophone world; cinematic arts; animation and digital media; art theory; medium and materiality; cultural flows.
Lecturer in Media in Development and International Journalisms Dr Somnath Batabyal South Asia with a focus on India; transnational news spheres; Development discourses and its articulation in mainstream and alternate news forums; environmental politics.
Professorial Research Associate Professor Rachel Dwyer Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay
Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies Professor Andrew Gerstle Japanese literature, drama and thought, primarily of the Tokugawa period, with particular interest in Bunraku and Kabuki theatre and the plays of Chikamatsu
Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture Dr Marlé Hammond Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture.
Professor of Thai Cultural Studies Professor Rachel V Harrison Modern Thai Cultural Studies, Cinema and Literature; gender studies with reference to Thailand; literary criticism and South East Asian Literatures in a comparative context; Western film set in South East Asia
Reader in Contemporary Japanese Culture Dr Griseldis Kirsch Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.
Research Associate Dr Kevin Latham China: Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (PRC) Chinese media, newspapers, television, journalism, popular culture, Internet and telecommunications, theatre, anthropological knowledge, practice and performance
Reader in Modern Chinese Culture and Language Dr Xiaoning Lu Chinese film history and criticism; modern Chinese popular culture; visual culture and media technology; cultural governance; socialist modernity
Director, Centre for Global Media and Communication, School of Law Professor Dina Matar Middle East, especially Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, international political communication; media and conflict; critical global media studies; activism and media; social movements; memory studies and oral history; diasporas and ethnic minorities.
Reader in Indonesian and Malay Dr Ben Murtagh Modern Indonesian cinema and literature; queer studies and sexuality in Indonesia; representation of genders and sexuality in Southeast Asian film and literatures; representation of HIV in Indonesian culture
Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature Professor Wen-chin Ouyang Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse.
Dr John Parker Early modern and modern West African history, especially social and political history of Ghana
Reader in the History of Africa Dr Marie Rodet Modern West African history, especially social and gender history of Western Mali, history of West African slavery and emancipation.
Research Associate Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad Media in the Middle East with particular focus on Iran; diasporas and transnational media; islamophobia; shi’i Islam in the West; third Cinema; big data and digital methods.
