Hannah Scupham

Hannah Scupham is a KU Chancellor's Fellow and doctoral candidate in English Literature. Her dissertation, “Reader, I Married Him’”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, explores the affective politics of the Victorian marriage plot as well as contemporary reimaginings of the Victorian period through mass-market romance novels. She received her B.A. in English and German from Valparaiso University, and her M.A. in English Literature from KU. Scupham also holds a graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from KU. Currently a member of the tenth cohort of Lilly Graduate Program Fellows, she was also the recipient of a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in 2013-2014. Her work has appeared in the Wilkie Collins Journal.