Dr Georgia Nasseh
- Junior Research Fellow, King's College
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Location
- Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom
About
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 for 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.
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.
Research
As a Research Fellow at King’s, Georgia 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 a comparative framework. More broadly, she has research interests in colonial and anticolonial literatures, transnationalism and internationalism, Third Worldism, and Cold War aesthetics.
Published works:
‘The Spectre of Maksim Gorky: The Influence of Mother on Angola’s Geração Cultura’, in Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context, eds. Muireann Maguire and Cathy McAteer (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2024), pp. 329–348, with Mukile Kasongo [Open Access]
‘ “and I slip into it unawares”: The Function of Bilingualism in Kobina Sekyi’s The Blinkards (1915)’, in Research in African Literatures 51:2 (Summer 2020), 135–148 [Online]
Winner of the 2022 Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award
Teaching and supervision
University of Oxford
Since 2019, Georgia has taught undergraduate students of the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese across a range of language and literature modules. For students in Prelims, she has taught ab initio and post A-Level Portuguese (i.e. oral, prose composition, and grammar), as well as prescribed authors of twentieth- and twenty-first century literature — such as Alda Lara, Clarice Lispector, and Pepetela (Paper III) — and Brazilian autos (Paper IV). For students in the Final Honours School, she has taught nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century literature of Brazil, Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa (Papers VIII and XI). She has also taught translation from Portuguese into English and English into Portuguese.
She has delivered lectures on nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century literature — from Aluísio de Azevedo to Mário de Andrade and Patrícia Galvão, from Marilene Felinto to Conceição Evaristo, from José Luandino Vieira to Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and Mia Couto — to students of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
At a graduate level, she has taught in course options across the MSt in Modern Languages and MSt in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies — such as Lusophone Women Writers and Postcolonial Perspectives: Race and Gender in Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal — and supervised dissertations on Angolan and Brazilian literature.
University of Cambridge
At the University of Cambridge, Georgia has taught twentieth-century literature of Brazil and Portuguese-speaking Africa to undergraduate students undertaking the modules Introduction to the Language, Literatures and Cultures of the Portuguese-speaking World (PG1) and Lusophone Culture, History and Politics (PG4), delivering both lectures and supervisions.