Research

Rosalind Moran is a first-year DPhil student based at St Anne's College, Oxford, and funded by the St Anne's OCCT Scholarship. She hold an MPhil in European, Latin American, and Comparative Literatures and Cultures from the University of Cambridge, a PhB Bachelor of Philosophy (Hons) from the Australian National University, and a Diploma of Languages (Mandarin) from the Australian National University. 

Focusing on an original comparison of the works of Clarice Lispector and Virginia Woolf, Rosalind's DPhil project explores how concepts from the physical sciences can enrich interpretations of modernist literatures, and thereby strengthen and develop theories surrounding posthumanism, dark ecology, and planetarity. Her research aims to pioneer an expanded approach to ecocritical readings and, through a novel justaposition of two emblematic experimental fiction writers, ask: which new forms of subjectivity might emerge through these readings, and how might they benefit how we understand these writers and the environments within which they – and we – exist? 

Prior to starting her DPhil, Rosalind worked for several years in media and research communications roles across the University of Cambridge, the public sector, and nonprofits. She is also an established freelance journalist and author, with writing in The Guardian, Prospect, Reader's Digest, Mslexia, The Telegraph, Kill Your Darlings, WIRED, Electric Literature, and various others. Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have been published widely and one of her plays received a five-night run in Cambridge, UK, in 2022. 

Although Rosalind's research currently focuses on Portuguese-language and English-language literature, she has also published academic writing on French authors, having worked on French-language texts during her MPhil. She was raised bilingual in French and English, is fluent in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and is also proficient in Mandarin.

Selected academic publications

'Speaking Through Her: Christine Jeffs’s Sylvia and the ongoing misinterpretation of Sylvia Plath'. Literature Film Quarterly 52 (1), 2024. 

'Un noble décor': Modernity and Depictions of the Countryside in Colette. The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art, 2022.

'Holy Woman' (Book review). Meanjin 81 (3), 209-212, 2022. 

'Estou asperamente viva’: on identity and the posthuman in Clarice Lispector’s A Paixão Segundo G.H. and Água Viva'. Lucero 26 (1), 2021.

'Fauna' (Book review). Australian Book Review 422 (June–July 2020).

Selected awards

University of Oxford - St Anne’s OCCT Scholarship (awarded 2025)

Irene Adler Prize - runner-up - 2025 

CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest (CRAFT literary journal) - shortlisted - 2023

Cambridge University Poetry & Prose Prize - shortlisted - 2021

Global Winner - 2018 Undergraduate Awards (Music, Film & Theatre category)

Huayu Enrichment Scholarship - National Taiwan University - 2015

Banco Santander Scholarship - Peking University - 2014

National Merit Scholarship (Australia) - 2013