Centre for Translation Studies (CTS) at SOAS: Members

Chege Githiora

Acting Chair, Centre for Translation Studies (Term 1)

Swahili and Gĩkũyũ Language and Linguistics. Translation and Literacy in African Languages. Culture and Society of East Africa, Latin America and the African Diaspora.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4395
Email: cg17@soas.ac.uk
Room: 412
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 11:15 - 13:15

Nana Sato-Rossberg

Chair, Centre for Translation Studies (TERMS 2-3)

History of Translation Studies in Japan, Intergeneric translations (manga to film), Translation of oral narratives or orality, Cultural translation, The relationship between translation and power.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4224
Email: ns27@soas.ac.uk
Room: 380
On Sabbatical:TERM 1

Lutz Marten

Ex-officio Steering Committee Member

Bantu languages and linguistics; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; historical linguistics; language and society in Eastern and Southern Africa

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4653
Email: lm5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 360
Academic Support Hours: Tue 11-12 & Wed 12-1. Email for an appointment

Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE

Steering Committee Member for Arabic

Qur’an, Hadith, Tafsir; Islam in society; classical and modern Arabic literature

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4325
Email: ha4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 427
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 13:00-14:00 / Wednesdays 12:00-13:00

Song Lianyi

Steering Committee Member for Chinese

Modern Chinese language and language pedagogy

Tel: 020 7898 4226
Email: ls2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 367
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 1-2pm / Thursday 1-2pm

Grace Koh

Steering Committee Member for Korean

Korean and East Asian literary traditions (prose and fiction); literary and intellectual history; travel literature and cultural encounters; critical theory and comparative literature

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4290
Email: gk5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 385
Academic Support Hours: Friday 2-3pm (Term 1)/Email for an appointment
On Sabbatical:Term 2, 2017/18

Nima Mina

Steering Committee Member

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
Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 1-3pm

Martin Orwin

Steering Committee Member

Somali language and literature; metrics and use of language in poetry; the relationship between language and music; Amharic.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4376
Email: mo1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 405
Academic Support Hours: Mondays: 12:00-14:00; Thursdays: 12:00-13:00

Helen Blatherwick

Member

Classical Arabic literature, Popular literature, Comparative literature

Tel: 020 7898 4385
Email: hb20@soas.ac.uk
Academic Support Hours: Please Email

Cosima Bruno

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

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

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

Alan Cummings

Member

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4200
Email: ac50@soas.ac.uk
Room: 391
Academic Support Hours: Term 1: Monday 1-3pm | Term 2: Tuesday 1-3pm

Yorgos Dedes

Early Anatolian Turkish; Ottoman language and literature; Ottoman history; Turkish-Greek relations; modern Turkish culture

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4344
Email: gd5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 424
Academic Support Hours: Fridays 3-5pm

Stephen Dodd

Modern Japanese literature, with particular interest in gender/sexuality, Modernism and translation studies

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4216
Email: sd5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 381
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 3-4pm (Term 2 only)
On Sabbatical:2018-2019 (Term 1)

Ayman El-Desouky

Comparative Literature, 19th and 20th Century Arabic Literature, hermeneutics, modern philosophy and theory.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4355
Email: ad48@soas.ac.uk
Room: 423
Academic Support Hours: Back in September 2018

Nada Elzeer

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

Arabic language and translation

Tel: 020 7898 4340
Email: ne5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 432
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays and Thursdays : 12:00 to 13:00 hours

Dongning Feng

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4298
Email: df14@soas.ac.uk
Room: 406
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 10:30-12:30

Chinese-language theatres; Sinophone performance cultures, trans-Asian performance networks, Chinese-language cinemas, transnational Asian cultures, intercultural theatre, theories and practices of the avant-garde.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4047
Email: rf24@soas.ac.uk
Room: 399a
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 111am-12noon (book online, see biography)

Bernhard Fuehrer

Member

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
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 12-1pm

Akiko Furukawa

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4233
Email: af15@soas.ac.uk
Room: 383
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 3-4pm/Thursdays 4-5pm

Wanli Gao

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

Chinese language teaching

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4234
Email: wg@soas.ac.uk
Room: 382
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 12-1 pm / Thursday 11 - 12 pm

Andrew R George

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

Cuneiform and Ancient Mesopotamian studies

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4335
Email: ag5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 414
Academic Support Hours: On research leave 2018-2021

Andrew Gerstle

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

Japanese literature, drama and thought, primarily of the Tokugawa period, with particular interest in Bunraku and Kabuki theatre and the plays of Chikamatsu

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4207
Email: ag4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 390
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 1-2pm / Email for an appointment

Ida Hadjivayanis

Swahili Language

Tel: 44 (0)20 7898 4386
Email: ih11@soas.ac.uk
Room: 411
Academic Support Hours: Thursdays: 15:00 - 16:00 hours

Rachel V Harrison

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

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

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4247
Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 455
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 3:15 to 5:00pm or by appointment via email

Dana Healy

Modern Vietnamese cultural studies (literature, film, gender); Vietnamese social and cultural history (the Vietnam War; art and politics); the sociology of contemporary Vietnamese literature; the Vietnamese diaspora

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4252
Email: dh4@soas.ac.uk
Room: 465
On Sabbatical:On sabbatical, 2016-17

Nathan W. Hill

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: 377
Academic Support Hours: Not teaching in 2017/18

Michael J Hutt

Nepali literature; the Nepali media; Nepali politics; Bhutanese refugees.

Tel: 020 7898 4286
Email: mh8@soas.ac.uk
Room: 359
Academic Support Hours: On research leave in 2017/18

Yan JIANG 蔣嚴蒋严

Semantics, pragmatics, Chinese linguistics

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4213
Email: yj9@soas.ac.uk
Room: 393
Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 11.00-13.00 and by appointment

Burçin K. Mustafa

Email: bm17@soas.ac.uk

Shin-Ichiro Okajima

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4874
Email: s.okajima@soas.ac.uk
Room: T209

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.

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4348
Email: wo@soas.ac.uk
Room: 435
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays: 3:00 - 4:00 pm; Wednesdays: 12:00-13:00

Zhaoxia Pang

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

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

Anne Pauwels

Applied linguistics and sociolinguistics

Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4474
Email: ap62@soas.ac.uk
Room: 372
Academic Support Hours: TERM 1: Tue 2-3, Thu 3-4. TERM 2: Tue 2-3, Thu 1-2

Barbara Pizziconi

Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic politeness

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4225
Email: bp3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 362
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 3-4pm

Naresh Sharma

Member

Urdu and Hindi language

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4296
Email: ns19@soas.ac.uk
Room: 452
Academic Support Hours: Monday 1-2pm; Thursday 3-4pm

Lik Suen

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

Modern Chinese languages; language pedagogy

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4264
Email: lx@soas.ac.uk
Room: 361
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 12-1pm & Wednesdays 11:30am-1pm

Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅

Member

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
On Sabbatical:2018-2019 (all year)

Hanne-Ruth Thompson

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

Structural and descriptive linguistics, syntax, semantics, Bengali grammar and lexicography, philosophy of language

Email: hr@soas.ac.uk

Dr Shejiao Xu

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

Email: sx1@soas.ac.uk

Amina Yaqin

Member, Centre for Translation Studies

Urdu language and literature; post-colonial literature and theory; gender studies; South Asian literatures in English; feminism in a Third World context; gender and politics in Pakistan

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4305
Email: ay@soas.ac.uk
Room: 470
Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 13.30pm-14.30pm; Friday 13.30-14.30pm

Nozomi Abe

Research Associate

Email: na48@soas.ac.uk

Xiangqun Chang

Professorial Research Associate

Xiangqun works at the centre for developing 'Chinese for Social Sciences', a branch of 'Chinese for Specific Purposes' (CSP), and Chinese and English dual language publications.

Email: xc100@soas.ac.uk

Danti Pudjiati

Email: danti.pudjiati@uinjkt.ac.id