Hannah Scupham

Dr. Hannah Scupham is a postdoctoral fellowship lecturer at the University of Kansas (KU) whose research focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, British literature, popular romance studies, readership, affect theory, and postcritique. She earned her Ph.D. in 2022 from KU and 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. Her scholarship has been awarded the Joan M. Leach Memorial Graduate Student Essay Prize (Gaskell Studies) and she was the 2022 recipient of the Romance Writers of America Academic Research Grant. She received her M.A. in English Literature from KU, and her B.A. in English and German from Valparaiso University. Scupham also holds a graduate certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from KU. Formerly 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 and the Gaskell Studies Journal.