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Research

Lingchen Huang recently completed a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. She has an MSt in modern languages (Portuguese) from Oxford (2020), and an undergraduate degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University (2019). Her DPhil project spans modern Brazilian literature, theories of the Non-Anthropocentrism, and continental philosophy, focusing on Clarice Lispector’s early novels. Her other research interests include contemporary Lusophone African literature, postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality, environmental humanities, and literature and science studies.

 

Publications

Monograph: Clarice Lispector's Non-Anthropocentric Thought, under contract with Legenda (forthcoming).

'Review of After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century', in Portuguese Studies, vol. 42, no. 1 (forthcoming).

‘Cruel Optimism in Suburban Change: Politics of Affect in Clarice Lispector’s A cidade sitiada’, in Journal of Lusophone Studies, vol. 9, no. 2 (2026), p. 110-132.

'Between Subjectivity and Materiality: Affective Mechanism, Atmosphere and Matter-Energy Dynamics in O lustre by Clarice Lispector', in Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 62, no. 2 (2025), p. 5-24.

'Problem of Identification in Cosmopolitan Context: Empathy, Conflict and Balance in Surrealismo do quotidiano by Djina',  in Romance Notes, vol. 65, no. 2, (2025) p. 245-55.

‘Between Self and History: Trauma and Illusion of the Other in O Tibete de África by Margarida Paredes’, in Portuguese Studies vol. 38 no. 1 (2022), 95-111.

‘Boredom, Illness and Aberrance: The Posture of Lying Down in “Devaneio e embriaguez duma rapariga” and “O Delírio”’, in Revista Escrita (PUC-Rio) vol. 28 (2020), 51-75.

with Xinyi Jin, ‘Vergonha, corpo e narrativa: uma leitura de “Obsessão” de Clarice Lispector à luz da Teoria do Afeto’, in Orientes do Português (MPU & UPorto) vol.2 (2020), 31-41.

 

Teaching

Graduate Lecture Series: O Lustre (The Chandelier): The Nonhuman Turn in Clarice Lispector's Writing (HT23, TT24)

Paper XI: Brazilian Texts (MT23)