Dr. Jess Hannah

Biography

Jess Hannah is a Guest Teacher in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She obtained her PhD in English from University College London in 2022, with a thesis titled 'Ambivalent Intimacies: Authorial Authority in the Post-War British Novel'. Her research investigates the preoccupation of British novelists in the 1960s and 1970s with the limits of epistemic authority and questions of authorial control, which she argues are intimately linked to the broader political experiences of the post-war era. Hannah holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge and a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago, where she previously taught. In 2022, she was an AHRC-funded archival fellow at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, where she developed a project titled 'It Divides Worlds: Metropolitanism, Migrancy, and Sam Selvon’s Archive.' Her expertise encompasses literary studies, media history, and cultural studies, and she is currently the Project Coordinator for the Custodian Legacies British Slavery Database at UCL's Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery.

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