Mathelinda Nabugodi is a literary scholar and writer specializing in Romanticism. She completed her undergraduate degree in English literature at the University of Edinburgh before moving to University College London where she completed an M.A. in translation theory and practice and a Ph.D. in creative critical writing. Following her Ph.D., Mathelinda held a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of English at Newcastle University and a Leverhulme Trust early career fellowship in the Faculty of English at Cambridge. She has also worked as a research associate in the literary archive at the Fitzwilliam Museum.