Mathelinda Nabugodi

Mathelinda Nabugodi is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the SELCS Faculty of Arts & Humanities at University College London. She previously worked as a Research Associate in the Literary and Artistic Archive at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. She was the first to be awarded a PhD in Creative Critical Writing from UCL, for a thesis on Percy Bysshe Shelley and Walter Benjamin. She has edited Shelley’s translations from Aeschylus, Calderón, and Goethe for The Poems of Shelley as well as the essay collection Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing. She has secured fellowships at the University of Cambridge, Newcastle University, the Bodleian Libraries, and the Huntington Library.

Her book The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive will be published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) and Alfred A. Knopf (US) in 2025. In 2021 her work won the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award and in 2022 she was a Whiting Award Winner for Creative Nonfiction.