About

Hannah LeClair is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is writing a dissertation about landscape, setting, and the afterlife of picturesque aesthetics in the nineteenth-century realist novel.

Hannah has presented research from her dissertation regionally and internationally. At Penn, she has served as a coordinator for Theorizing, the Comparative Literature Program's colloquium series, and Intensive, a graduate-student reading group. Recently, she co-coordinated the Penn English Department’s Restoration-Victorian Studies Graduate Working Group (ResVic), programming lectures and leading workshops and discussion groups.

After receiving her B.A. from Bard College in 2014, Hannah worked in secondary education for several years, in Limousin, France and Burlington, Vermont. She holds an M.A. from Penn’s Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and will obtain her doctoral degree in 2024.