Hannah Fox

Profile

I joined the University of Leeds as a PhD researcher in the School of English in 2022, having received my MA in English Literature from Queen Mary University of London in 2020.

My research explores how literary spaces, such as libraries and bookshops, are represented in contemporary world literature, and how the authors use these translocal spaces to highlight the flow of world literature across boundaries and borders. I am interested in the impact of censorship on the movement of texts and alternative routes that texts travel through. By analysing how the flow of world literature is imagined within contemporary texts (including novels, film, art and poetry), I will contribute to wider discussions within world literature theory about how books and other literary texts circulate in a global context.

My research is fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, through the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH).

Awards

• WRoCAH doctoral studentship, 2022-26
• Marjorie Thompson Prize, 2021
• Principal’s Prize, Queen Mary University of London, 2021

Publications

• Co-translator: Hussein Arif, ‘Sweet Tea’, trans. by Jiyar Homer with Hannah Fox, The Markaz Review, September 2023
• Book Review: Osman Yousefzada, The Go-Between (2022), The Markaz Review, June 2022
• Co-translator: Qubad Jalil-zada, ‘Three Haiku’, trans. by Halo Fariq and Hannah Fox, Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal (American University of Beirut), February 2021

Conference Presentations

• ‘Archiving in the Kurdish Literary Context’ at ‘Kurdish Literature and its Studies: an Interdisciplinary Conference’ at Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University (US), 25 April 2025
• ‘Bibliomigrancy and Authorship in Hwang Yeo Jung’s The Specters of Algeria’ at ‘Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context’, COLLAB Symposium, KU Leuven (Belgium), 30-31 May 2024.
• ‘Introducing Bibliomigrancy and Translocality’ at the BCLA (British Comparative Literature Association) Postgraduate Conference, University of Warwick, 13 October 2023.
• ‘Translocality and World Literature’ at the Institute for World Literature, Harvard University (US), 14 July 2023.

Teaching

• MODL2070 Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature (2024-25)
• ENGL1055 Writing Matters (2023-24)

Research interests

• theories of world literature
• contemporary literature in translation
• spatial and geocritical approaches to literature
• representations of migration and exile
• print culture and the history of the book

Qualifications

• MA English Literature, Queen Mary University of London (Distinction)
• BA English, University of Wales, Lampeter (First Class Honours)
• Trinity Cert. TESOL

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for World Literatures
• Place & Performance