Professor Christopher Shackle FBA

Oriental and African Studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London

Past appointments

Soas, University Of London Pro-Director for Academic Affairs

1997 - 2003

University of London Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia

1985 - 2008

Soas, University Of London Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London

1985 -

Birkbeck College University of London Reader in Modern Languages of South Asia

1979 - 1985

Soas, University Of London Lecturer in Urdu and Panjabi

1969 - 1979

Publications

The Siriaki language of central Pakistan 1976

A Guru Nanak glossary 1981

Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa (2 vols), 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Gavin Flood FBA

Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics

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Professor Margaret Hillenbrand FBA

Literature, art history, and visual media in modern and contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, especially cultures of protest and secrecy

Professor Margaret Hillenbrand FBA

Dr James McMullen FBA

Oriental and African Studies East Asia Japan History of a specific country Japan

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