Alexandra Reza is Junior Research Fellow in French at Trinity College, Oxford University. Her current research focusses on print cultures, cinema, radio and performance in Conakry (Guinea) in the early post-independence years. She is also finishing a monograph about decolonization and literary journals in French, Portuguese and English.  She has a D.Phil. in Modern Languages and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, and a B.A. in English Literature from Cambridge University.