Georgia Nasseh

Georgia is Research Fellow in the Literatures of the Global South at King’s. 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. Funded by King’s College and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), she organised the international conference Translation Networks in the Decolonising World, 1950s–1970s in April 2026.

Georgia has recently held a BRIDGE Fellowship, funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) at the University of Oxford and the Javett Art Centre (Javett–UP) at the University of Pretoria, during which she organised public programmes in South Africa and in the UK, including collage-making workshops using materials from the Archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), held in partnership with the Bodleian Libraries, and an exhibition, Glimpses of the Now, co-curated with Johannesburg-based cultural producer Gillian Fleischmann. An interview with the curators can be read here.