Dr Eccles has a PhD from the University of Sydney, and has published articles on the literature and history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period. He has published two books on the Shanghai dialect, and one on Coptic, and has co-authored a book on the Tetum language of East Timor. He is one of the editors of the journal Studies in Languages and Cultures of East Timor. He is currently involved in a project on Manichean studies in China, which involves him in reading texts in Syriac and Old Turkic.

Research interests:
Nestorianism in China, Coptic language.

Academic qualifications:

BA - University of Sydney
DipIM-Lib - University of New South Wales
PhD - University of Sydney

Publications:

Lance Eccles. Grammatical Commentary on the Syriac Gospel of Mark. Gorgias Press, Piscataway NJ, forthcoming.

Geoffrey Hull & Lance Eccles. Tetum Reference Grammar (Revised edition). Instituto Nacional de Linguistica, Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e, Dili, 2004. [Portuguese edition: Gramática da Língua Tétum. Lidel, Lisboa, 2005]

Lance Eccles. Chinese Sentence Structures: A Concise Reference (Modern Language Monographs No. 3). Macquarie University, 1999.

Lance Eccles. Shanghai Texts (Macarthur Linguistic Studies No. 1). University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, 1997.

Lance Eccles. Shanghai Dialect: An Introduction to Speaking the Contemporary Language. Dunwoody Press, Kensington MD, 1993.

Lance Eccles. Introductory Coptic Reader: Selections from the Gospel of Thomas with Full Grammatical Explanations. Dunwoody Press, Kensington MD, 1991.
Multimedia
Diana Blom, Peter Petocz, Lance Eccles. Creating Ensemble: Australian Recorder Quartets. (Video, CD-ROM, booklet with music scores) In House Technologies, Petersham, Australia, 1998)
Some articles
Xiaoqing Ye and Lance Eccles. "Anthem for a dying dynasty: The Qing national anthem through the eyes of a court musician". In T'oung Pao 93 (2007), 433-458.

Lance Eccles. "A summary administrative history of Quanzhou". In From Palmyra to Zayton: Epigraphy and Iconography (eds. I. Gardner, S. Lieu and K. Parry). Silk Road Studies X. Brepols, Turnhout, 2005, 207-214.

Lance Eccles, Majella Franzmann and Sam Lieu. "Observations on select Christian inscriptions in the Syriac script from Zayton". In From Palmyra to Zayton: Epigraphy and Iconography (eds. I. Gardner, S. Lieu and K. Parry). Silk Road Studies X. Brepols, Turnhout, 2005, 247-279.

Lance Eccles. "Early Chinese accounts of Timor". In Estudos de Línguas e Culturas de Timor Leste, 6 (2004), 178-187.

Lance Eccles. "East Timor language policy: Lessons from the experience of Slovakia". In Estudos de Línguas e Culturas de Timor Leste, 5 (2003), 41-54.

Lance Eccles. "A Tetum Reference Grammar: Some problems in grammatical classification". In Studies in the Languages and Cultures of East Timor, 4 (2001), 37-47.

Lance Eccles. "East Timorese language policy and the language policies of other small Pacific nations". In Studies in the Languages and Cultures of East Timor, 3 (2000), 1-30.

Lance Eccles. "The verb markers of Tetum-Praça and their grammaticalization". In Studies in the Languages and Cultures of East Timor, 2 (1999), 22-37.

Lance Eccles. "Perfective and inchoative verbal markers in Tetum". In Studies in the Languages and Cultures of East Timor, 1 (1998), 39-51.

Lance Eccles. "Translating Tibet: presenting the short stories of Zhaxi Dawa to the English-speaking reader". In Studies in the Humanities 22 (1995), 117-126.

Lance Eccles. "The Empress Dowager Wang Baoming and her role in the political affairs of the Southern Qi and Liang dynasties". In Journal of Asian History, 27 (1993), 1-15.