Hannah is the Rosemary Pountney Research Fellow in British and European Drama (1890-present) at St Anne's College. She is particularly interested in politicised representations of the human body on stage, and on the dramatic depiction of physical pain and disability. She is originally from Northern Ireland, and retain an interest in Northern Irish literature and performance.
She has two monographs forthcoming: Samuel Beckett and Post-War Francophone Theatre: Witnessing Pain (Oxford University Press) and Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance (Palgrave). Her current project, tenatively entitled The Unexpected Dramatist: Modernism’s Forgotten Stage Plays, explores the forgotten plays of modernist novelists Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, E. M. Forster, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O’Brien, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner. It explores why these novelists turned to (and then turned away form) the theatre medium, and the implications for their conceptions of communal and national forms of literary and cultural engagement.