Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili

Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. She completed a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing (2015-18) and MA in Literary Translation (2018-19) at the University of East Anglia, and an MA in Postcolonial Studies (2021-22) at SOAS, University of London. Her doctoral research addresses the need for decolonising literary translation, focusing on francophone Algerian writing, through the subjects of World Literature, plurilingualism, and transnational feminism in conversation with the activist role of the translator. More broadly, she is interested in literature and expressions of resistance from the Maghreb and southern/eastern Africa, including its queer and feminist intersections.