Dr. Hannah Van Hove

Hannah Van Hove is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).

She completed her undergraduate degree in English Literature and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow before embarking on an Erasmus Mundus MA course in European Literary Cultures in Strasbourg, Bologna and Thessaloniki. She received her PhD on the fiction of British avant-garde writers Anna Kavan, Alexander Trocchi and Ann Quin in 2017 from the University of Glasgow. In 2018 she joined Vrije Universiteit Brussel as an FWO-funded  junior research fellow and has held concurrent posts as Assistant Professor of the Honours Programme at VUB (2021-2024) and Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the Open Universiteit in the Netherlands (2022-2023).

Hannah Van Hove works on various aspects of twentieth-century and contemporary literature in Britain and the United States, and has a particular interest in experimental fiction, women's writing, health humanities and creative-critical methodologies. Her first monograph, Experiments in Subjectivity in Post-War British Women's Fiction: Unsettling Identity, is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. Together with Andrew Radford, she is the editor of British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975: Slipping through the Labels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and her work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Women: A Cultural Review, Forum+, Translation and Literature, the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, as well as in edited volumes published by Palgrave, Edinburgh University Press and Academia Press. Her current research project explores interrelationships between avant-garde women's writing and conceptual art during the long 1970s in the United States. 

Key-words

Women's writing - experimental literature - critical-creative forms of writing - feminist thought and theory - literary theory - contemporary literature

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