Roles and subjects
Associate Professor in Brazilian Literature and Culture
Contact
Academic Background
After reading for a degree in French and Spanish at Durham University, I took an M.Phil in European Literature at Cambridge and stayed there for my doctoral research on Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.
Undergraduate Teaching
I lecture on Modern literature from the Portuguese-speaking world (from Machado de Assis to Conceição Evaristo) and teach other final year courses such as Brazilian Cinema and Contemporary Brazilian Literature. I also team teach on courses such as Lusophone African Literature, Women’s Writing in Lusophone literature and Latin American Cinema.
Graduate Teaching
Brazilian Literature (nineteenth to twenty-first centuries) and Film.
Research Interests
Women’s writing and minority writing from the Lusophone world, particularly Clarice Lispector (Brazil), Maria Ondina Braga (Portugal), and Lília Momplé (Mozambique). Also life-writing (biography), translation and travel writing.
During Spring of 2020, I participating in the translation of Escape Goat, a serialised lockdown novel by 46 Portuguese authors. I am a member of the following research networks and groups:
- Grupo de Estudos em Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea – a research group working on contemporary Brazilian literature
- Pensando Goa/Thinking Goa (USP)
- Intersexualidades
I am the Portuguese representative on the Steering Committee of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research at the University of London. I am on the Editorial Board of several academic journals, including Portuguese Studies and the Journal of Lusophone Studies.
Recent Publications
- After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Adriana X. Jacobs (MHRA, 2021)
- Transnational Portuguese Studies, co-edited with Hilary Owen (LUP, 2020)
- ‘Possible and Impossible Dialogues: Interpreting Clarice Lispector’s Interviews for Manchete and Fatos e Fotos’, in Special Dossier on Clarice Lispector’s Journalism, ed. Mariela Méndez, Journal of Lusophone Studies 4.2 (2019), pp. 198-218
- ‘Tracing Back Trauma: the Legacy of Slavery in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature by Women’, Angelaki 22: 1 (March 2017)
Links
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College:
- Classics and Modern Languages
- English and Modern Languages
- European and Middle Eastern Languages
- History and Modern Languages
- Modern Languages
- Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Philosophy and Modern Languages
See also St Peter’s College website and Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages website.