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SOAS scholar brings world materials expertise to major dialect and imagination project
several April 2016
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang, Professor of Persia and Comparative Literature at SOAS University of Greater london has joined a major interdisciplinary research project on creative multilingualism, led by University of Oxford financed by home repair and Humanities Research Council.
Mentor Ouyang will be working with Dr Jane Hiddleston from Oxford on world literature, one of the strands of research in the project. The historians will explore the transformative associated with the conversation between multiple languages as they meet within fictional texts and creative writing.
Using the modern period from the nineteenth 100 years to the present as the temporal framework, Tutor Ouyang and Professor Hiddleston will examine the blooming of multilingualism inherent in a single linguistic system such as French or Spanish, or in a single regional cultural intricate including the Arab world, and the effect of this on linguistic, literary and cultural creativity.
This major project forms section of the Start World Research Initiative, with each other with programmes led by Cambridge, King's College London, uk and Manchester. Over four years, scholars in the fields of Modern 'languages', Linguistics, English, Anthropology and Biology will seek to raise the profile and visibility of languages, looking into their importance within an increasingly global society that is determined by effective communication and the scope to exhibit diverse identities.
Working in partnership with the English Council, schools, arts firms including English PEN and Sputnik Theatre, GCHQ and business organisations, the analysts will establish an increased understanding of ways linguistic diversity interacts with creative imagination in our thinking, sociable interaction, cultural life and global engagement.
