Georgia Nasseh

Georgia Nasseh read for a BA in English at Queen Mary, University of London and for an MSt in English at the University of Oxford. She then completed a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford in 2023. Her research was concerned with multilingualism and translationality, with an emphasis on the work of Angolan author José Luandino Vieira. More broadly, she has research interests in colonial and anticolonial literatures, transnationalism and internationalism, Third Worldism, and Cold War aesthetics. As a Research Fellow at King's, she will explore how performance companies, festivals, and the space of the theatre have operated as transnational sites of internationalist activity across Africa and the Americas between the 1960s and the 1980s, foregrounding the literary and intellectual production of Portuguese-speaking nations within comparative frameworks. Before coming to Cambridge, she was Departmental Lecturer in Portuguese at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford and Co-ordinator of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre, based at St Anne's College. Georgia is originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.