Hannah Stewart
Biography
Hannah Stewart is a third year PhD candidate in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing. She earned her BA in English from the University of Guelph, and her MA in English from Ģý. Her research investigates representations of non-normative minds in Victorian Gothic literature and contemporary adaptations of the genre in order to interrogate their tendency to conflate mental difference with monstrosity.
Research Interests
Gothic Victorian literature; Neo-Victorian literature; critical disability studies; critical neurodiversity studies.
Selected Publications
[Forthcoming]: “Gender changes: text encoding for literary-historical teaching and scholarship.” Co-authored chapter in <teaching>: Text Encoding as Humanities Pedagogy, edited by Diane Jakacki and Brian Croxall. University of Minnesota Press.
“The Autistic Vampire.” Co-authored chapter in Disability, Illness, and the Vampire in Literature and Culture, edited by Brooke Cameron and Drumlin Crape. Routledge.
Conferences
2023: ACQL, York University, Ontario
Panel: Placemaking in Diaspora and Settler Texts
Paper: Imaginative Belonging: Imaginative Space and Ethical Claims to Belonging in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach and Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return.
Awards and Recognition
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral, 2025-2028
E.G. Bauman Fellowship, 2024