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capitalism, colonialism, race, Marxism, anticolonialism, outsourcing

Professor Francesca Orsini is a literary historian working primarily with Hindi and Urdu materials and interested in exploring how multilingualism worked and continues to work within the literary cultures of South Asia.

Nafiseh Ansari is a PhD researcher in the Department of History, Religions and Philosophies, working on a critical edition and interdisciplinary study of the Middle Persian text Draxt ī Asūrīg. Her research interests include Pahlavi literature, Zoroastrianism, the visual culture of ancient Iran, and the philosophy of history particularly questions about how meaning, memory, and identity are constructed through historical texts.

Political economy, Labour economics, Social reproduction, Informal work.

International relations theory, critical theory (especially postcolonial and queertheory), comparative political thought, gender and sexuality, South Asia

Philippine Post-colonial and Comparative Literature Studies; British Occupation of Manila; Philippine languages and linguistics; Ethnography of Communication; Writing systems; Southeast Asian Studies; Gender and Migration..

Ros Taplin is Reader in Environmental Management SOAS.