About

Hannah LeClair is an Assistant Professor of Victorian Literature at Appalachian State University. Her research on literature and visual culture focuses on the realist novel’s visual rhetorics, and her current book project examines landscape, setting, and the afterlife of picturesque aesthetics in the nineteenth-century novel. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where she held a Benjamin Franklin Fellowship and was the recipient of a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the university’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Before joining the faculty at Appalachian State University, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ursinus College and, previously, an instructor at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. LeClair has published in The Hardy Society Journal, and her writing on contemporary fiction and poetry appears Jacket2, Music & Literature, and elsewhere.