Mathelinda Nabugodi
MA (Edinburgh), MA (UCL), PhD (UCL)
College roles
Special Supervisor in English
Biography
Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi is a literary scholar and writer specialising in Romanticism. She completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh before moving to University College London where she completed an MA in Translation Theory and Practice and a PhD in Creative Critical Writing. Following her PhD, Mathelinda held a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of English at Newcastle University and a Leverhulme Trust early career fellowship in the Faculty of English at Cambridge. She has also worked as a research associate in the literary archive at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She now lectures in Comparative Literature at University College London.
Research Interests
Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi’s research examines the intersections between British Romanticism and the Black Atlantic while at the same time investigating the period’s legacy in our own time. Her current book project is called The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive and is due to be published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) and Alfred A. Knopf (US). Work-in-progress samples from the book have won the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award (2021) and a Whiting Foundation Creative Non-Fiction Grant (2022). She is the author of Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic (2023) and one of the editors of the Longman edition of The Poems of Shelley. She has published articles on Shelley’s translations, ekphrasis, creative/experimental criticism, and the racist history of hair.