Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Staff

Undergraduate Programme Convenor

Dr Tian Yuan Tan (BA Chinese, BA Chinese Studies, BA Chinese plus another subject, BA Tibetan plus another subject)

Postgraduate Programme Convenors

Dr Rossella Ferrari (MA Chinese Literature)

Dr Cosima Bruno (MA Chinese Studies)

Professor Bernhard Feuhrer (MA Sinology)

Dr Dafydd Fell (MA Taiwan Studies)

Postgraduate Tutor

Dr Xiaoning Lu

Please note that for Masters Students the Admissions Tutor and Personal Tutor is the MA Programme Convenor.

Academic Staff

Cosima Bruno

Senior Lecturer in China Studies

Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies; Chinese language art; Sinophone literatures

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4421
Email: cb65@soas.ac.uk
Room: 456
Office Hours: Term 1: Wednesdays 2-3pm

Rossella Ferrari

Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Theatre Studies

Chinese-language theatres; Chinese-language cinemas; intercultural performance; theories and practices of the avant-garde

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4047
Email: rf24@soas.ac.uk
Room: 399a
Office Hours: Term 1 ONLY: Thursday 11.30-12.30 or appointment*
On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2016/17

Bernhard Fuehrer

Professor of Sinology

Classical Chinese philology, rhetoric, philosophy and literature; the history of Sinology in Europe; reception of the canon with specific reference to the Analects

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4218
Email: bf3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 398
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12-1pm

Tibetan language from Old Tibetan to Modern Standard Tibetan; Tibetan historical and biographical literature; historical, descriptive and corpus linguistics, in particular with reference to Tibetan or other Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan languages; Chinese minorities; Mongolian

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4512
Email: nh36@soas.ac.uk
Room: 448

Song Lianyi

Principal Teaching Fellow

Modern Chinese language and language pedagogy

Tel: 020 7898 4226
Email: ls2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 397
Office Hours: Monday 2-3pm/Tuesday 2-3pm

Andrew H-B Lo

Emeritus Professor of Chinese

Chinese language (Cantonese and Mandarin); fiction and prose from the Ming-Qing periods; cultural activities of Ming and Qing scholars, especially games; export paintings; traditional horticulture

Tel: 020 7898 4213
Email: al3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 393
Office Hours: Mondays 11am-12noon/Fridays 11am-12noon

Xiaoning Lu

Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and Language

Chinese film history and criticism; modern Chinese popular culture; visual culture and media technology; cultural governance; socialist modernity

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4670
Email: xl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 453
Office Hours: Thursdays 3 - 4 pm, Term 3 Research Leave

Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅

Professor of Chinese Studies

Pre-modern Chinese literature, with emphasis on drama, fiction, and poetry in the later dynasties; Chinese literary history and historiography; court theatre and performance; cross-cultural interactions between China and other countries

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4570
Email: tt26@soas.ac.uk
Room: 396
Office Hours: Tuesdays 4-5pm(Term Time), or by email appointment

Senior Lectors

Yan Cui

Senior Lector in Chinese

Chinese language teaching, styles of modern Chinese literary language, Chinese rhetoric

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4237
Email: yc2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 382
Office Hours: Monday 11:10-12:10; Thursday 11:10-12:10

Wanli Gao

Senior Lector in Chinese

Chinese language teaching

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4234
Email: wg@soas.ac.uk
Room: 382
Office Hours: Tuesday 12-1pm(V322)/Wednesday 2-3pm(382)

Zhaoxia Pang

Senior Lector in Chinese

Tel: 020 7898 4257
Email: zp1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 480
Office Hours: Monday 16:00-17:00 / Thursday 11:00-12:00

Marta Sernesi

Senior Lector in Tibetan

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4755
Email: ms153@soas.ac.uk
Room: 473
Office Hours: Monday 1–3pm / by appointment

Lik Suen

Principal Lector in Chinese

Modern Chinese languages; language pedagogy

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4264
Email: lx@soas.ac.uk
Room: 361
Office Hours: Mon. 11.15-11.45am & 1.15-2pm/Wed. 11.05-12.05

Senior Teaching Fellows

Maria Af Sandeberg

Senior Teaching Fellow in Chinese

Modern Chinese literature and literary thought; gender studies

Email: ms119@soas.ac.uk

Teaching Fellows

Hongzhen An

Teaching Fellow in Chinese

Email: ha8@soas.ac.uk

Paul Bevan

Research Associate and Teaching Fellow

How Wee Ng

Senior Teaching Fellow

My principal research interests lie in unravelling the presuppositions of cultural discourse. For example, how do different individuals variously imagine and construct the effects of media on society?

Email: hn15@soas.ac.uk
Room: 367
Office Hours: Monday 11:00 - 12:00, Tuesday 11:00 - 12:00