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Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics (Teaching Mandarin as a Foreign Language)

Maddalena Italia is Teaching Fellow in Sanskrit at SOAS, specialising in Sanskrit language and literature, translation, and classical reception.

Pim Fitzpayne is a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology.

Currently a PhD researcher at SOAS University of London, in the department of religions, Sofia holds an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies and a BA (Hons) in Ancient and Modern History.

Ethnographically, the anthropology of West Africa in general, with a particular focus on the ‘Middle Belt’ of Nigeria and Cameroon. Ethnographic interests, both contemporary and historical, include: politics and religion; ethnicity and identity; material culture. Anthropologically, contemporary theories in social anthropology, and the history of twentieth-century British social anthropology.

My primary research interest concerns the process of literary production under authoritarian states. I have completed my doctoral project on the dialectic of literature and power with a specific focus on post-revolutionary Iran. My current project addresses the same question throughout the history of Persian literature.

Korean art history (from prehistory to the 20th century), Buddhist art, Confucian elite and its culture, Text and Images