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Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

 

Current Research

Professor Imre Galambos
Chinese manuscripts; Dunhuang studies; Tangut studies; history of Chinese writing; contacts between China and Central Asia; Silk Road

Dr Aaron D. Hornkohl
Ancient Hebrew philology and linguistics, Ancient Hebrew periodization, exegesis

Dr Benjamin Kantor
Biblical Hebrew, Historical Hebrew, Hebrew Reading Traditions, Medieval Hebrew Grammarians, Comparative Semitics, Arabic, Comparing Biblical/Arabic Literature, Koine Greek, Biblical Greek

Professor Roel Sterckx FBA
Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; cultural history of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies

Professor Vincenzo Vergiani
History of linguistic ideas and the philosophy of language in ancient India, including the role of grammar in the history of Sanskrit

Professor Boping Yuan
Empirical studies of bilingualism and multilingualism; linguistic approaches to non-native Chinese grammars; Chinese linguistics, syntax and semantics, bilingualism/bidialectalism and aphasia.