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Dr. Olivia Glaze

KWI International Fellow

Academic Career

  • 2025 – 2026 Modern Hmanities Research Association Visiting Fellow @ Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London, UK.
  • 2024 – 2025 Language and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher @ Modern Humanities Research Association & University Council for Languages, UK.
  • 2024 – 2025 AHRC Post-Doctoral Research Associate @ University of Exeter, UK. Project: Reading Bodies: Narrating Illness in Spanish and European Literatures and Cultures (1870s to 1960s).
  • 2022 – 2023 AHRC Post-Doctoral Research Associate @ University of Exeter, UK. Project: Leading Women in Portuguese and Spanish Cinema and Television 1970-1980.
  • 2018—2022 DPhil in Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Oxford.

Research Interests

  • Anti-authoritarian and anti-imperial culture production
  • Medical Humanities
  • Disability Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Life-writing & Autofiction
  • Film Studies
  • Creative Health Practices

Publications

Special Issues

  • Murphy, Katharine and Olivia Glaze (eds.) (2025). Reading Bodies: Narrating Illness in Spanish and European Literatures and Cultures (1870s to 1960s), Journal of Romance Studies, 25(3): 295-530. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2025.15

Articles

  • Glaze, Olivia (2025). ‘(Love)Sick, Disabled, and Dying: Investigating the Crip Clock, Gender, and Resistance in Pessoa’s A Carta da corcunda para o serralheiro (circa 1930)’, Journal of Romance Studies, 25(3): 509-530. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2025.25
  • Glaze, Olivia (2025). ‘Black and White Memories: Photographs of a Colonial Childhood in Caderno de Memórias Coloniais’, Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies 7(1): 81-102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/bchs.2025.6
  • Glaze, Olivia (2024). ‘Reading Between the (Front) Lines: Hegemonic Masculinity, Trauma, and the Colonial War in Novas Cartas Portuguesas’, Journal of Romance Studies 24(1): 13-32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2024.3

Book Chapters

  • Glaze, Olivia (2023). ‘Exposing War Crimes: Visual Layering in A Costa dos Murmúrios’, in Torrão, N. (ed.) The Power of Image in the Work of Lídia Jorge (Oxford: Peter Lang), 113-132. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b19861