Dr Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha

Connie is currently the Draper’s Fellow at Pembroke College. Her research focuses on receptions of Graeco-Roman antiquity in the popular oral poetries of Latin America, with particular focus on the cantoria and cordel traditions of Northeast Brazil. Connie is also collaborating with the Mexican poet Pura Lopez Colomé to translate her collection Via Corporis (awarded the prestigious Premio Xavier Villarrutia) into English. Connie is especially interested in poetic temporalities, and is co-editor with Edith Hall of the forthcoming volume Time, Tense and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature (Oxford University Press).

Before coming to Pembroke, Connie studied Classics at Oxford, Comparative European and Latin American Literatures and Cultures at Cambridge, and completed her PhD in Classics and Comparative Literature at King’s College, London.