University Lecturer in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Senior Research Fellow, Wadham College
Tel No. 01865 277 547
Email claudia.pazos-alonso@wadh.ox.ac.uk
Department Information
Faculty of Modern Languages
www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Dr Cláudia Pazos Alonso, MA, DPhil (MA Lond). Research interests include: 19th and 20th Portuguese and Brazilian Literature and Literature from Portuguese-speaking Africa, especially poetry and prose fiction; genre and gender, canon-formation; women writers and images of women; the role of literature in post-colonial representations of the nation. Courses taught (undergraduate and graduate) Clarice Lispector; Eça de Queirós; Portuguese Modernism (ie Fernando Pessoa; Sá-Carneiro; Florbela Espanca); Twentieth Century Portuguese Women Writers; The Literature of Portuguese–speaking Africa. Current Project
My next major research project, provisionally entitled Between Portugal and Paris: modernity and negotiations of identity in Portuguese fiction (1890-1915), investigates late 19th and early 20th century Portuguese literature within a broader European fin de siècle and modernist context
Selected Publications
- Antigone’s Daughters? Gender, Genealogy, and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing, with Hilary Owen, Bucknell Press, 2011
- A Companion to Portuguese Literature, with Stephen Parkinson and T. F. Earle (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2009
- Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, special volume devoted to Mia Couto, edited by Cláudia Pazos Alonso and Phillip Rothwell, (2007)
- Closer to the Wild Heart. Essays on Clarice Lispector, edited by Cláudia Pazos Alonso and Claire Williams, (Oxford, Legenda: 2002),
- Guest Editor, Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, 2 (1999), special issue devoted to Lídia Jorge.
- Imagens do Eu na Poesia de Florbela Espanca, (Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional- Casa da Moeda, 1997)
- Women, Literature and Culture in the Portuguese-Speaking World, edited by Cláudia Pazos Alonso (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996)
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