SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Chang, Bi-Yu (2015) Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan. London and New York: Routledge. (Routledge research on Taiwan ; v. 15)

Farzad, Narguess and Shapcott, Jo (2009) Poems: Farzaneh Khojandi = Farzona Khūjandi Ash'or. London, UK: Enitharmon Press, 0-35.

Kendhammer, Brandon and McCain, Carmen (2018) Boko Haram. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2025) Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab. London: I. B. Tauris in Association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies. (World of Islam)

Perera, Natsuko (2015) 子どもの第二言語習得プロセスープレハブ言語から創造言語へ. Tōkyō: 彩流社 = Sairyūsha.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Barrett, T. H. and Wong, Lawrence Wang-chi, eds. (2022) Crossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies. Hong Kong: Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. (Asian translation traditions series)

Flügel, Peter, ed. (2019) Jaina Narratives. London: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies 8) (Forthcoming)

Hiddleston, Jane and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, eds. (2021) Multilingual Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury. (Bloomsbury Literature as World Literature)

Hutt, Michael and Onta, Pratyoush, eds. (2017) Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal. Delhi: Cambridge University Press.

Blatherwick, Helen and Bray, Julia, eds. (2019) 'Arabic Emotions From the Quran to the Popular Epic', Special issue of Cultural History Journal 8:2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Book Chapters

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2007) 'Surviving September 11th or Snapshots in the Dark?: A Critical Consideration of Two Professional Photographs as Portraits of Denial.' In: Dallmann, Antje, Isensee, Reinhard and Kneis, Philipp, (eds.), Picturing America: Trauma, Realism, Politics and Identity in American Visual Culture. Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 13-20.

Flügel, Peter (2022) 'Johannes Klatt, Librarian for Oriental Manuscripts at the Royal Library in Berlin from 1872 to 1892.' In: Mangold-Will, Sabine, Rauch, Christoph and Schmitt, Siegfried, (eds.), Sammler-Bibliothekare-Forscher: Zur Geschichte der Orientalischen Sammlungen an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, pp. 151-207. (Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie Sonderband 124)

Flügel, Peter (2019) 'Narrative Paradigms for Jaina Mortuary Rituals: Mythologies of the Worship of the Relics of the Jinas by the Gods in Jaina Universal Histories.' In: Flügel, Peter, (ed.), Jaina Narratives. London: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies 8) (Forthcoming)

Flügel, Peter, Krüger, Patrick and Shah, Priyanka (2023) 'Six Jaina Bronzes.' In: Flügel, Peter, De Jonckheere, Heleen and Söhnen-Thieme, Renate, (eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions. London: Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS, pp. 96-103.

Hadjivayanis, Ida (2023) 'The Swahili Mtapta : Exploring Translation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise.' In: Emenyonu, Ernest, Otiono, Nduka and Akoma, Chiji, (eds.), African Literature in African Languages. Martlesham: James Currey (Boydell and Brewer Ltd), pp. 26-37. (African Literature Today (ALT), vol. 41)

Hiddleston, Jane and Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2021) 'Introduction: Multilingual Literature as World Literature.' In: Hiddleston, Jane and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, (eds.), Multilingual Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-10. (Bloomsbury Literature as World Literature)

Hutt, Michael (2017) 'The Royal Palace Massacre, Conspiracy Theories and Nepali Street Literature.' In: Hutt, Michael and Onta, Pratyoush, (eds.), Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal. Delhi, India: Cambridge University Press, pp. 39-55.

Kamdem, Seraphin (2020) 'From dialectal variation to standardisation, production of literature, and pedagogical implications: Revisiting the case of Ghɔmálá’, a Grassfields‑Bantu language from Cameroon.' In: Forlot, Gilles, (ed.), Variation linguistique et enseignement des langues : le cas des langues moins enseignées. Paris, France: Presses de l'INALCO, pp. 233-251. (TransAireS)

Lu, Xiaoning (2020) 'In the Name of Internationalism: The Cinematic Memorialization of Norman Bethune in Socialist China.' In: Skrodzka, Aga, Lu, Xiaoning and Marciniak, Katarzyna, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 341-363.

McCain, Carmen (2009) 'Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi.' In: Falola, Toyin and Ngom, Fallou, (eds.), Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations. New York: Routledge, pp. 163-189. (Routledge African Studies)

Moradi, Yousef and Hintze, Almut (2022) 'The main seal of the sanctuary of Ādur Gušnasp and some other administrative sealings from Taḵt-e Solaymān.' In: Gyselen, Rika, (ed.), Sometimes Sasanian, always Ēr. Bures-sur-Yvette: Groupe pour l'étude de la civilisation du Moyen-Orient, pp. 75-99. (Res orientales, v. 29)

Nenadovic, Ana (2016) 'Von Generation zu Generation. Erinnerungen slawischer Minoritäten im gegenwärtigen Roman.' In: Lovric, Goran and Jelec, Marijana, (eds.), Familie und Identität in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, pp. 261-275.

Orsini, Francesca and Sheikh, Samira (2014) 'Introduction.' In: Sheikh, Samira and Orsini, Francesca, (eds.), After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-44.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2021) 'Configurations of Multilingualism and World Literature.' In: Hiddleston, Jane and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, (eds.), Multilingual Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 282-303. (Bloomsbury Literature as World Literature)

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2023) 'Tea and the Silk Roads of World Literature.' In: Mishra, Sudesh and Vandertop, Caitlin, (eds.), Commodities and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming)

Pizziconi, Barbara (2023) 'Discourse.' In: Derivry-Plard, Martine, Liddicoat, Anthony J. and ReN-AILA, Research Network, (eds.), La Médiation interculturelle en didactique des langues et des cultures / Intercultural mediation in teaching and learning languages and cultures. Paris: Editions des archives contemporaines, pp. 39-43.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Esotericism and Visionary Mysticism in Medieval Byzantine and Slavonic Orthodox Pseudepigraphic and Heretical Literature.' In: Radulović, N., (ed.), Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe. Belgrade: University of Belgrade, pp. 13-29. (CEENASWE 2)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2016) 'Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research.' In: Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali, De Cillis, Maria, De Smet, Daniel and Mir-Kasimov, Orkhan, (eds.), L'Ésotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements Shi'i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments. Turnhout, Belgium: Belgium, pp. 723-742. (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, vol. 177)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2019) 'Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.' In: Sosnowska, Danuta and Drzewiecka, Ewelina, (eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought. Warsaw: The University of Warsaw Press, pp. 129-144.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2017) 'St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare.' In: Panov, Mitko B., (ed.), The Byzantine Missionary Activity and Its Legacy in Europe. Skopje, North Macedonia: Euro-Balkan University, pp. 19-28.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian Dualism.' In: Blidstein, Moshe, Ruzer, Serge and Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel, (eds.), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 203-217. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 112)

Journal Article

Amir, Alia and Huq, Rizwan-ul (2024) 'The Dialectic of Academic Practices: A Reflection by Self to Bridge the Praxes.' Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 15 (3). pp. 11-14.

Bello, Saheed Adesumbo (2023) 'Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy: Aesthetics of Èjìgbèdè Ẹ̀kú in Saworoidẹ.' Film and Philosophy: The Journal of the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts., 27. pp. 89-103.

Bello, Saheed Adesumbo (2023) 'Ọ̀rúnmìlà and the Yorùbá Intellectual Tradition: Words and Language vis-à-vis Western Modernity.' Culture and Dialogue, 11 (1). pp. 85-103.

Blatherwick, Helen (2019) '‘And The Light in his Eyes Grew Dark’: The Representation of Anger in Arabic Popular Epic.' Cultural History, 8 (2). pp. 226-247.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2024) 'Race, Law and Liminality: The Poetry of May Ayim.' Amerikastudien / American Studies, 69 (3). pp. 301-312.

Flügel, Peter (2025) 'Jaina Mendicant Paraphernalia Warehouses.' Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 20. pp. 16-22.

Hammond, Marle and van Gelder, Geert Jan (2024) 'Rayhana 'The Mad': Her Persona and Poetry.' Der Islam, 101 (2). pp. 409-438.

Jawhar, Sabria Salama, Amir, Alia, Huq, Rizwan-ul and Stewart, Simon (2024) 'Collaborative Problem Solving and Literacy Practices: A Conversation-Analytic Case Study of Children's Online Pre-gaming Interaction.' Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality, 7 (1). p. 137312.

Manson, Charles (2024) 'Karma Pakshi - The Second Karmapa, His Life, Teachings and Meditations.' The Middle Way, 98 (1). pp. 29-48.

McCain, Carmen (2022) 'Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 92 (5). pp. 739-758.

McCain, Carmen (2016) 'An Evolution in Nollywood, Nigeria’s New Wave: A Conversation with Chris Eneaji.' Black Camera, 7 (2). pp. 194-216.

Mensah, Eyo, Dzokoto, Vivian and Rowan, Kirsty (2021) 'The functions of emotion-referencing names in Ibibio.' International Journal of Language and Culture, 8 (2). pp. 218-244.

Nenadovic, Ana (2019) 'Sexualised Violence between Silence and Enunciation: The Madonna of Excelsior and Symphony in White.' GLITS-e, 7.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha.' Scrinium, 14 (1). pp. 334-350.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2010) 'Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism.' British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37 (3). pp. 261-272.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2013) 'Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise.' Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 3. pp. 149-166.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.' The Silk Road, Fourth Conference on Chinese Studies, 4. pp. 291-300.

Yuan, Ying and Jiang, Yan (2018) 'Rhetorical Figures: The Argumentative “Ornament”.' Linguistics and Literature Studies, 6 (5). pp. 211-218.

Monographs and Working Papers

Scott-Baumann, Alison and Cheruvallil-Contractor, Sariya (2012) Arabic Language and the Study of Islam: Who Studies Arabic and Why and How Can These Skills be Used at University and Beyond? Southampton: LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.

Book Reviews

Amir, Alia (2024) 'Review of: The anti-racism linguist: A book of readings.' Language, 100 (4). pp. 825-829.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2020) 'Review Essay: Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (W. W. Norton and Co.).' Feminist Review, 125 (1). pp. 110-116.

Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2019) 'Review: Karla Holloway, Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature (Duke University Press).' Law and Literature, 31 (1). pp. 155-157.

Ferrari, Rossella (2017) 'Review of "The Theatre of David Henry Hwang" by Esther Kim Lee. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015.' Theatre Research International, 42 (1). pp. 109-110.

Gupta, Vivek (2017) 'Review of 'Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century India: Poetry and Paintings from Kishangarh'.' caa.reviews .

Hammond, Marle (2022) 'Review of: Wessam Elmeligi, The Poetry of Arab Women from the Pre-Islamic Age to Andalusia.' Journal of Arabic Literature, 53 (1/2). pp. 155-159.

McCain, Carmen (2018) 'Postcolonial Mythologies.' American Book Review, 39 (4). pp. 7-8.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Amir, Alia (2024) What if I lose my language? What if I have lost my language? Language On The Move [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

McCain, Carmen and Ukoh, Africa (2019) Humanity, Culture, and Representation in Theatre and Film: Africa Ukoh, author of 54 Silhouettes, and Carmen McCain in Conversation. Brittle Paper [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2016) Love, Friendship and Community in a Multicultural World. Leiden University Webpage [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2021) Multilingualism and Global Humanities in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic. Goldsmith Centre for Comparative Literature [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2020) Wen and the art of lockdown maintenance. British Comparative Literature Association Webpage [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Theses

Vita, Vasiliki (2020) Prosodic Patterns in Ramari Hatohobei. Masters dissertation. SOAS, University of London.

Translations

Hadjivayanis, Ida and Shivji, Issa, trans. (2019) Poems for the Penniless. Ottowa, Canada: Daraja Press.

Films

Manson, Charles (2018) Law and the Tibetan Empire. British Library. Available from https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/law-and....

Ouyang, Wen-chin and Warner, Marina (2021) Arabic Poetry and Stories in Translation Workshops. YouTube. Available from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aaZ6ERbgsUkP6G7....

Other

Gupta, Vivek (2018) 'hulām 'Alī "Āzād" Bilgrāmī (d. 1786) and 'Abd al-Qādir Badā'ūnī (1540-1615).' In: Islam, Judaisim, and Zoroastrianism. Springer. pp. 144-146.

Hammond, Marle (2025) 'Hafsa bint al-Hajj.' In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hammond, Marle (2025) 'Sara al-Halabiyya.' In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hammond, Marle (2024) 'Taqiyya bint Ghayth al-Suriyya.' In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hammond, Marle (2023) 'al-Khansaʾ (Tumadir Bint ʿAmr).' In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2020) 'Bringing together Arabic Adab and Chinese Wen.' ArabLit Quarterly: A Magazine of Arab Literature in Translation .

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2011) 'Naguib Mahfouz.' In: The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.1.1: North African Writing and Culture: Arabic, Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic. London: The Literary Dictionary Company Limited.

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2021) 'On Being Wanderers in a Cosmopolitan City: Interview with Wen-chin Ouyang.' ArabLit Quarterly: A Magazine of Arab Literature in Translation .