Dr Jess Hannah is a Guest Teacher in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.

Dr Hannah’s PhD in English, titled ‘Ambivalent Intimacies: Authorial authority and the post-war British novel’ was funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership and awarded by University College London in 2022. The PhD theorises how and why novelists in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s became preoccupied with the limits of epistemic authority and how their questioning of authorial control is intimately linked to wider post-war political experience. Dr Hannah holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (BA Hons.) and the University of Chicago (MA), and has taught at Chicago, Cornell University, and UCL.

In 2022, Dr Hannah was an AHRC-funded archival fellow at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, where she developed a research project titled ‘“It divide up in little worlds”: Metropolitanism and Migrancy in Sam Selvon’s archive.’ Also in 2022, she was a researcher at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation at University College London. She is currently the Project Co-ordinator and Custodian of the Legacies of British Slavery Database at the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery.