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Phillip Rothwell has lived in many places. Born in Ecuador, he studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, which he then taught in Mozambique. There, he acquired a taste for the multiple literatures of the Portuguese language. After a stint in South Africa, he returned to Cambridge to complete a doctorate in Mozambican literature. From there, he moved to New Jersey, where he taught at Rutgers University for over a decade. In 2013, he was appointed the King John II Professor of Portuguese at the University of Oxford, where he now lives and works. His academic interests center on the literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world and how these challenge many of the parameters of anglophone and francophone theories of nationhood and the postcolonial. He has a particular interest in gender theory, and is currently researching how a series of marginalized Angolan women writers subvert the male-centered discourses of the revolutionary struggle for independence.
His publications include Pepetela and the MPLA: The Ethical Evolution of a Revolutionary Writer; A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative; and A Postmodern Nationalist: Truth, Orality, and Gender in the Work of Mia Couto. He co-edited with Hilary Owen the volume Sexual/Textual Empires: Gender and Marginality in Lusophone African Literature. He has translated into English novels by Helder Macedo and Isabela Figuereido.
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