Mathelinda Nabugodi's recently published book The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive critically explores how the lives and works of six major Romantic authors were entangled with the racist realities of their era.
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About the author: Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society - Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry. Previously she was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she researched the literary archive of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a Research Associate in the Literary and Artistic Archive at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
She completed her doctorate at UCL, where she was the first person ever to be awarded a PhD in Creative Critical Writing by the university, for her thesis on Shelley and Walter Benjamin. She is the author of Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic, and has edited Shelley’s translations from Aeschylus, Calderón and Goethe for The Poems of Shelley, as well as the essay collection Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing.