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.

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), my research contributes to wider discussions within world literature theory about how books and other literary texts circulate in a global context. I use the concept of ‘bibliomigrancy’ (Mani) to focus on the materiality and movement, as I explore how specific texts imagine resisting censorship through highlighting alternative and underground routes of literary circulation.

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

• ‘Shapeshifting Texts and Enigmatic Authors: Censorship and Resistance in Hwang Yeo Jung’s The Specters of Algeria’, in Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context, ed. by Anna Sofia Churchill and Nuria Codina Sola (Bloomsbury) – forthcoming (under contract)
• Co-translator: Hussein Arif, ‘Sweet Tea’, trans. by Jiyar Homer and 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

• ‘Performing the Archive: Memory and Materiality in Ehsan Khoshbakht’s Celluloid Underground’ at ‘”Trextuality” 2: Material Turns in Translation: Intermediality and Circulation’, University of Galway (Ireland), 4-6 Sept. 2025
• ‘Archiving in the Kurdish Literary Context’ at ‘Kurdish Literature and its Studies: an Interdisciplinary Conference’, 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.
• ‘Bibliomigrancy and the Translocal’ at 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; 2025-26)

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