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Hannah completed her PhD at TransCanada Institute at the University of Guelph in 2013, where her research focused on contemporary white Canadian women鈥檚 representations of distant suffering. She held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta; her project, 鈥淢odern Magazines Project Canada,鈥� was a collaborative initiative that took up the call to read magazines as a form of new media technology that, alongside radio and film, helped to shape the emergent consumer-publics of the twentieth century. 

Since 2015, Hannah has been making , a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world with her collaborator Marcelle Kosman. She has written about podcasting and fandom for , and about Harry Potter reread podcasts as digital reading communities in . In 2017, Hannah started a new podcast, , a weekly discussion of the insidious, nefarious, insurgent, and mundane ways we enact our feminism in our daily lives. Through a collaborative SSHRC-funded project with , the podcast is . In 2018, Hannah also joined the SSHRC-funded  partnership as head of the Podcast Task Force, where she is responsible for developing , a collaborative podcast that explores the possibilities of audio-based scholarship for engaging with audio archives. In March 2020, Hannah and Siobhan were awarded a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant to continue developing their work on scholarly podcasting in the form of the . 

Since joining the Publishing Program at 丁香园AV, Hannah has further expanded her research on Canadian literature and publishing into the contemporary state of the industry. In February 2018, she co-organized Publishing Unbound, a three-day symposium that brought together authors, activists, scholars, and publishing professionals in Canada to discuss inclusivity and accountability in the publishing industry. Her co-edited book, (Book*hug 2018) tackles similar topics, providing a critical and historical context to help readers understand conversations happening about CanLit presently. The  described it as 鈥渁n important collection of immediate responses to [the] fracturing鈥� of CanLit.

Hannah has experience teaching in the areas of book history, new media studies, Canadian literature, and the Canadian publishing industry. Her teaching philosophy emphasizes creative and process-based assignments as well as a focus on interaction in the classroom.

For more details about her publications, awards, and teaching experience, see . She can also be reached on Instagram