Research

Rosalind Moran is a second-year DPhil student based at St Anne's College, Oxford. Her research is funded by the Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship and the St Anne's OCCT Scholarship. She holds 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. She has also been a visiting student at Peking University, National Taiwan University, and Uppsala 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, Long Now, 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.

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

Selected literary publications

'Piecing Together in the Afterlife' (Book review). Sydney Review of Books, June 2026. 

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

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

Teaching

Creative Writing - St. Anne's College, University of Oxford (Hilary Term 2026, Trinity Term 2026, and Michaelmas Term 2026)

Modernist Literature - St. Anne's College, University of Oxford (Trinity Term 2026)

Study Skills - St. Anne's College, University of Oxford (Michaelmas Term 2026)

Selected talks

'The language of emptiness in the works of Clarice Lispector and Virginia Woolf' (I Symposium on Anglo-Portuguese Studies, University of Oxford, October 2026)

'Moving beyond nihilism: parallels between Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector’s female fictions' (IX International Conference for the Portuguese Association for Comparative Literature (APLC), University of Porto, Portugal, July 2026)

'Alice's Adventures in Translation' (St Anne's Literature and Translation event, University of Oxford, March 2026)

Academic service

OCCT Review - Editorial Board Member

Selected awards

Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship (July 2026)

Graduate Development Scholarship - St Anne's College, University of Oxford (June 2026)

University of Oxford - Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize 2026 (shortlisted)

P G Wodehouse Society (UK) Essay Prize (shortlisted, January 2026)

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