Dr Claire Williams
Dr Claire Williams
Lecturer in Brazilian Literature and Culture
Fellow of St. Peter's College
Address: St. Peter's College
Email: claire.williams@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 278932
Fax: 01865 278855
Research
Claire Williams' research focuses on women's writing and minority writing from the Lusophone world, particularly Clarice Lispector (Brazil), Maria Gabriela Llansol and Maria Ondina Braga (Portugal), and Lília Momplé (Mozambique). Her interests also include the cultural representations of favelas and travel writing.
Teaching
Lusophone Literature from the nineteenth century to the present day, Contemporary Brazilian Culture and Film
Publications
'Ghettourism and Voyeurism, or Challenging Stereotypes and Raising Consciousness? Literary and Non-literary Forays into the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro', Bulletin of Latin American Research , 27: 4 (October 2008), 483-500
'Clarice Entre Vistas', in Entrevistas: Clarice Lispector (Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 2007)
The Encounter Between Opposites in the Works of Clarice Lispector , Hipla Monographs (Bristol: Hipla, 2006)
Editor, with Claudia Pazos Alonso, Closer to the Wild Heart: Essays on Clarice Lispector (Oxford: Legenda/EHRC, 2001)