Alexandra Reza joined the University of Bristol in 2021 as a lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures, and as the director of Bristol's new BA in Comparative Literatures and Cultures. In 2024-2027 she will take up a British Academy/Wolfson Fellowship. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Research in African Literatures, Journal of Lusophone Studies and French Studies. She also regularly writes for a wider audience in publications such as the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, New Left Review and Le Monde Diplomatique. In 2022 she was selected as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.