Georgia Nasseh

I am Departmental Lecturer in Brazilian and African Portuguese at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. After reading for a BA in English at Queen Mary, University of London (2013–2016) and for an MSt in English at the University of Oxford (2016–2017), I completed a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford in 2023. My DPhil research was concerned with multilingualism and translationality, with an emphasis on the work of Angolan author José Luandino Vieira. I have research interests in colonial and anticolonial literatures, transnationalism and internationalism, Third Worldism, Cold War aesthetics, as well as the intersection of close reading, textual criticism, and translation studies.

After holding a Senior Lectureship in Portuguese in the first half of 2023 at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, I now hold a Departmental Lectureship in Brazilian and African Portuguese with a concomitant lectureship at St Peter's College.

The Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre—where I now act as Co-ordinator and co-convene the research strand Comparative African Literatures—has, in many ways, been an intellectual home for me since the start of my doctoral studies. I was previously Co-Editor of the OCCT Review (2019–2022).