Emeritus Professor Francesca Orsini 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.
Professor 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.
Professor Carlos Oya Carlos Oya is Head of the Department of Development Studies and is Professor of Political Economy of Development at the College of Social Sciences.
Professor Richard Widdess Historical, analytical, ethnographic and cognitive approaches to music of South Asia; music, cognition and language.
Professor Jae Hoon Yeon Korean language and linguistics, especially morpho-syntax and linguistic typology; structure and history of Korean language; Korean language teaching and translation; modern Korean literature
Emeritus Professor Louis Brenner Louis Brenner is Emeritus Professor of the History of Religion in Africa at SOAS.