Claudia Pazos-Alonso

Professor Claudia Pazos-Alonso is a Professor of Portuguese and Gender Studies at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and a Senior Research Fellow at Wadham College. Her research focuses on Portuguese and Brazilian literature from the 19th century to the present, alongside 20th-century Portuguese-speaking African literature. Key interests include genre/gender dynamics, canon-formation, women writers, modernism, and postcolonial representations. She teaches Lusophone literature, specializing in figures like Eça de Queirós and Fernando Pessoa, and has edited over 20 books and journal issues. Notable works include Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture (2020) and Antigone’s Daughters? (2011). Her editorial roles include guest editing Portuguese Studies and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. She holds an M.A. from Cambridge and a D.Phil. from Oxford.

Research Themes: Comparative Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Modernism, Portuguese Literary History, Postcolonial Studies.