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Mushegh Asatryan is Associate Professor of Arabic and Muslim Cultures, at SLLLC, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Religion and Classics.

Asatryan works on the religious and intellectual history of the premodern Middle East, and his work explores Muslim heresiology, the continuity between Late Antique religious trends and Muslim sectarianism, antinomianism, and religious polemics. He is the author of Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam (I. B. Tauris, 2017) and has two books forthcoming. One is a study and translation of the 10th-century Mu’tazili theologian al-Khayyat's Kitab al-Intisar (under review with Gorgias Press); and the other is a critical edition (with David Hollenberg) of Manhaj al-'ilm, a cosmological and religious text from 11th-century Syria.

Neha Bhatia

Neha Bhatia speaks fluent Punjabi, and can read, speak and write in Hindi, English and French. Neha received a B.A. degree in English literature from University of Delhi M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in French and Francophone Studies as well as an M.A. from Université de Perpignan. She is currently examining Indo-European film production culture through a Ph.D. in Transcultural Studies at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Dr. Charles Tepperman (Communication, Media and Film) and Dr. Devika Vijayan (School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures).

Dušan Nikolic

Dušan Nikolić completed a BA and MA in English Language and Literature at the University of Niš. He is currently completing a PhD in Linguistics under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Winters. Dušan's academic and research areas are Phonetics and Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, and Sociolinguistics. His PhD project is structured around the perception of prosody. The goal of his project is to explore whether the perception of prosodic elements can be efficiently modelled to emulate listeners' behaviour when processing prosodic constituents.