Georgia Nasseh

Georgia is Research Fellow in the Literatures of the Global South at King’s College, Cambridge. After reading for a BA in English at Queen Mary, University of London (2013–2016) and an MSt in English at the University of Oxford (2016–2017), she completed a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford in 2023. Her DPhil 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, and Cold War aesthetics, as well as colonial and decolonial linguistics, multi-, pluri-, and translingualism, and literatures written in and across European and African languages.

As a Research Fellow at King's, she is exploring 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. She is currently organising an international conference, ‘Translation Networks in the Decolonising World, 1950s–1970s’, which will take place at King’s in April 2026.

She has recently held a Senior Lectureship in Portuguese and a Departmental Lectureship in Brazilian and African Portuguese at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. Between 2022–2024, Georgia also acted as Co-ordinator of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre, based at St Anne’s College, Oxford where she organised the Centre’s activities and events — including seminars and panel discussions, workshops and conferences, international exchanges, in addition to the annual Oxford Translation Day — and contributed to the development of the Centre’s research agenda. In 2025, she acted as judge for the Stephen Spender Trust’s Portuguese Spotlight Prize.