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Hannah Sullivan is an Associate Professor at New College, University of Oxford, specializing in literary language and the intricacies of the writing process. Her work has focused on the revision practices of significant modernist authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. In her acclaimed book, 'Work of Revision' (Harvard, 2013), she posits that new technologies, particularly the typewriter, significantly influenced the bold stylistic changes in modernist literature. This book was honored with both the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the University English Book Prize in 2014. Sullivan's poetry collection, 'Poems', published in 2018, has received multiple accolades, including nominations for the Costa Poetry Award and the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize, and won the T. S. Eliot Prize. She has also produced a collection of her poems in 2023. With a strong background in Classics and a degree from Trinity College, Cambridge, she has taught at Stanford University and continues to supervise a broad range of projects while engaging with aspiring poets.
Stanford University • California
Taught undergraduate courses on T. S. Eliot, British Modernism, and Book History, as well as graduate seminars on 20th Century Authorship and Textual Criticism.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.