Professor Tom Earle, MA DPhil Oxf, is the King John II Professor of Portuguese Studies and a Fellow of St. Peter's College, University of Oxford.
His researches are concerned with Portuguese literature in the early modern period, especially poetry and drama; the historiography of the Portuguese expansion in Africa and Asia; scholarly editing; the history of the book, concentrating on books in Oxford libraries written in Latin by Portuguese scholars before 1640.
He teaches Portuguese literature in the early modern period; Portuguese Romanticism; Portuguese and Brazilian literature from the nineteenth century to the present day.