Professor Cláudia Pazos Alonso’s retirement marks the end of an era in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Oxford. She started as a lecturer in 1997 and helped broaden the Faculty’s expertise in teaching and research. Cláudia is an internationally acclaimed specialists in Portuguese Modernist poetry, nineteenth and twentieth-century print culture (women’s journalism), Portuguese women’s writing in general, Afropean literature. She has been a strong supporter of Portuguese as an academic subject and an excellent citizen all-round.
At an event held at Wadham on 5 December, friends and colleagues, students past and present, from near and as far as Brazil and the USA, gathered to celebrate Cláudia who gave a moving valedictory talk. Other speakers included colleagues from Oxford and beyond (Olivia Vázquez Medina, Jane Garnett, Claire Williams, Luis Gomes, Simão Valente, Ana Luísa Vilela, Luísa Coelho, Pelagia Goulimari, Hilary Owen, Fabio Mario da Silva) as well as Cláudia’s former tutors at Oxford, Tom Earle and Toby Garfitt, a former doctoral student, Olivia Glaze, and Robert Hannigan, Warden of Wadham.
We are grateful to Cláudia for everything she has done over the years. We look forward to her future contributions to her chosen field and we wish her a very happy retirement.
