Mr Naresh Sharma
Senior Lecturer in Urdu and Hindi
- Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4296
- Email: ns19@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 452
- Academic Support Hours: Monday 3-4pm, Thursday 3-4pm
South Asia Section, School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics
South Asia Section Staff
Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Dr Nana Sato-Rossberg
Head of South Asia Section
Dr James Mallinson
BA Convenors
Dr Naresh Sharma and Dr Lidia Wojtczak (all BA programmes and ISP / Extended Essay)
MA Convenor
Dr James Mallinson (all MA programmes)
Research Tutor; PhD Admissions Tutor
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang
UG Admissions Tutor
Mr Mohamed Said
UG Academic Advisers
Year 1: Dr Naresh Sharma
Year 2: Dr Lidia Wojtczak
Years 3-4: Dr Naresh Sharma
NB: Masters Students, your Academic Adviser is your MA Programme Convenor
UG Exams Sub-board
Professor Rachel Harrison (Chair); Dr James Mallinson (Deputy)
Academic Staff
Dr Lidia Wojtczak
Lecturer in Sanskrit
- Tel: +44(0)20 7074 5159
- Email: lw24@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 458
- Academic Support Hours: Monday 1-3pm or by appointment
Teaching Fellows
Sahana Bajpaie
Senior Teaching Fellow in Bengali
- Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4648
- Email: sb165@soas.ac.uk
- Academic Support Hours: On Research Leave 2019/20
Mr Aishwarj Kumar
Teaching Fellow in Hindi
Hindi language.
- Email: ak5@soas.ac.uk
Dr David Lunn
Research Associate and Senior Teaching 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; comparative literature; postcolonial studies.
- Tel: 020 7898 4294
- Email: dl24@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 457
- Academic Support Hours: By appointment
Research Associates
Dr Ashok Bery
Research Associate
- Email: ab129@soas.ac.uk
Dr Daniela Bevilacqua
Research Associate
- Email: db28@soas.ac.uk
Dr Jason Birch
Research Associate
Indian history; religions; Sanskrit; yoga; Śaivism; āyurveda; textual criticism; codicology
- Email: jb92@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 451b
Dr Stuart Blackburn
Research Associate
- Email: sb12@soas.ac.uk
Dr Avni Chag
Research Associate
- Email: ac158@soas.ac.uk
Dr Matthew Clark
Indian history and religions, sādhus, yoga, Asian psychoactive plants
- Email: mc5@soas.ac.uk
Dr Alastair Gornall
Research Associate
- Email: ag60@soas.ac.uk
Dr Csaba Kiss
History of Indian religions; Śaivism; mediaeval history of yoga; castes; Indian poetry; Indian inscriptions
- Email: ck19@soas.ac.uk
Dr William Radice
Research Associate
- Email: wr@soas.ac.uk
Dr Bihani Sarkar
Research Associate
Dr Mark Singleton
Research Associate
The modern and pre-modern history of yoga.
- Email: ms156@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 451b
Dr Renate Söhnen-Thieme
Research Associate
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4293
- Email: rs2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 376
Dr Hanne-Ruth Thompson
Research Associate
Structural and descriptive linguistics, syntax, semantics, Bengali grammar and lexicography, philosophy of language
- Email: hr@soas.ac.uk
Emeritus Professors
Professor Rachel Dwyer
Professor Emerita of Indian Cultures and Cinema
Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/Bombay
- Email: rd3@soas.ac.uk
Professor Michael J Hutt
Professor Emeritus of Nepali and Himalayan Studies
- Email: mh8@soas.ac.uk
Professor Francesca Orsini
Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature
- Email: fo@soas.ac.uk
Professor Christopher Shackle
Emeritus Professor of the Modern Languages of South Asia
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.
- Email: cs2@soas.ac.uk