Professor Alena Rettová Swahili literature; African philosophy; Afrophone philosophical discourses; literatures in African languages
Professor Peter Robb The history of modern South Asia; early Calcutta, c.1780-1830, Indian agrarian history, especially Bihar and Eastern India.
Professor Alfredo Saad Filho Latin America; political economy of development; industrial policy; pro-poor economic policy; neoliberalism; value theory
Emeritus Professor Itesh Sachdev Social psychology of language and intergroup relations, intercultural communication, identity (minority and majority), bi-multilingualism, multiculturalism, language attitudes and motivations
Dr Polly Savage History of African Art; Modern and contemporary art and curating in Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean, with particular focus on Haiti and Lusophone Africa; art and the Cold War in Africa; art education and cultural policy; post-colonial theory and trans-national exhibition practice.
Iain Scobbie Professor Scobbie studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, and at the Australian National University.
Professor Timon Screech History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history
Professor Christopher Shackle Punjabi and Urdu languages and literatures; regional languages of Pakistan and North-West India; Sufism and Islam in South Asia; Sikhism and its scriptures; comparative literature of the Islamic world.