Dr Olivia Glaze

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Olivia Glaze is a gender and postimperial studies scholar with extensive experience teaching and researching Lusophone literatures, film, and photography. She was awarded her DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she has also worked as a Lecturer and Tutor. Her research interests span representations of illness, trauma, and disability; coloniality and the legacies of imperialism; and contemporary women’s life-writing. Her scholarship is grounded in the gendered experiences of key periods of 21st-century history in the Portuguese-speaking world, namely: the Estado Novo dictatorship; the Portuguese Empire and Colonial War; and the decolonisation era in Lusophone Africa.