Hannah Blanning
PhD Student

Hannah Blanning is a PhD student specializing in British and French Romantic literature. Her research interests include voice, gender, identity formation and the ways in which selfhood is shaped by rational and poetic thought.  She is the English Department's Literature CTL Lead and co-head of the 18/19 Reading Group.  

Before joining the English Department, Hannah lived in France for twenty years where she coordinated college and secondary English programs while teaching literature and composition to bilingual students. She received a BA of Humanities and MA of Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado and holds an M2 of English Literature from the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.