Professor Rachel Dwyer Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay
Dr Jun Feng Jun Feng's research focuses on music and creativity, media and modernity, Intangible Cultural Heritage, and ethnographic film.
Dr Griseldis Kirsch Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.
Dr Hyunseon Lee Dr Lee is a media and cultural studies scholar with over 20 years of teaching and research experience across the UK, Germany, and East Asia. She brings linguistic precision, cultural insight, and leadership to international academic and research projects.
Dr Xiaoning Lu Chinese film history and criticism; modern Chinese popular culture; visual culture and media technology; cultural governance; socialist modernity
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
Dr Stephen A Murphy Stephen A. Murphy specialises in the art and archaeology of Buddhism and Hinduism in first millennium CE Southeast Asia with a focus on Thailand and Laos.
Dr Yousef Moradi Dr Yousef Moradi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher in the Department of Religions and Philosophies, holding a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017).