I am a researcher in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture.
Currently a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, I am completing a dissertation about landscape, description, and the afterlife of picturesque aesthetics in the realist novel.
My research focuses on the realist novel’s visual rhetorics.
I’m interested in poetry and poetics, aesthetics and visual culture, the nineteenth-century reception of romanticism, and twentieth-century theories of everyday life.
July 2022: Presentation at the Thomas Hardy Society 25th International Conference and Festival. Dorchester, UK.
I teach courses in literature and literary theory, intellectual history, and the environmental humanities.
Image: from The Architectural Notebook of Thomas Hardy, ed. C.J.P. Beatty
My writing appears in Jacket2, Music & Literature, and Asymptote.
Hannah LeClair
Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
720 Williams Hall | University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
