Agnes Fanning

I am a DPhil candidate researching the works of twentieth-century writers Salvadora Medina Onrubia from Argentina and Patrícia Galvão from Brazil. Both were novelists, poets, and journalists, whose writing influenced, and was heavily influenced by, their political involvement in the Anarchist and Communist movements of their respective countries. The comparative focus of this project will reveal the transnational nature of women’s involvement in left-wing political praxis during the twentieth century.

I received my BA from Oxford in Spanish and Portuguese and I recently completed an MPhil, also at Oxford, focusing on twentieth-century Argentinian and Brazilian literature. My thesis centred on life-writing in Latin America, specifically the works of Onrubia and Galvão. During my studies, I have focused on women’s writing, life-writing, and the visual arts.

As well as the AHRC OOC studentship, I have been awarded funding from the Clarendon Fund and the OOC AHRC DTP2 - Merton College Scholarship.