SOAS South Asia Institute
Languages and Cultures Expertise
| Name/Title | Area of Expertise |
|---|---|
| Aishwarj Kumar Teaching Fellow in Hindi |
Hindi language |
| Amina Yaqin Senior Lecturer in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies |
Urdu language and literature; post-colonial literature and theory; gender studies; South Asian literatures in English; feminism in a Third World context; gender and politics in Pakistan |
| David Lunn Simon Digby Postdoctoral Fellow |
19th and 20th century Hindi and Urdu literature; cinema; music; journalism; north Indian literary history; intellectual history; literary translation; literary and cultural history of Southeast Asia; Malay |
| Francesca Orsini Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature |
Hindi Literature; North Indian literary cultures; Hindi; Urdu |
| James Caron Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia |
Islam in South Asia; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Indo-Persianate sociocultural history; transnational non-Western history; activism and social movements |
| James Mallinson Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit and Classical Indian Studies |
Philological study of Sanskrit texts, ethnography and art history to explore the history of yoga and yogis |
| Krishna Pradhan Senior Lector in Nepali |
Nepali language |
| Lidia Wojtczak Senior Lector in Sanskrit |
Sanskrit language |
| Michael J Hutt Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies |
Nepali literature; the Nepali media; Nepali politics; Bhutanese refugees |
| Naresh Sharma Senior Lector in Urdu and Hindi |
Urdu and Hindi language |
| Rachel Dwyer Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema |
Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay; Gujarati language and literature; Gujarati diaspora esp UK and East Africa; comparative Indian literature |
| Rakesh Nautiyal Senior Lector in Hindi |
Hindi language |
| Sahana Bajpaie Senior Teaching Fellow in Bengali |
Bengali language |
| Stefanie Lotter Research Fellow and Co-Investigator 'After the Earth's Violent Sway: The tangible and intangible legacies of a natural disaster' |
Nepali society and culture; museology; social and cultural anthropology of the Himalaya; elite studies; heritage studies |