About
Alexia Hannis teaches in the Victoria College Writing Centre at the University of Toronto, and in the English department at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. She published her first book, The Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity in 2023 with the University of Toronto Press. Past honours include the Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award from the Joseph Conrad Society of America with which she is currently an elected trustee. Education
Ph.D., European Graduate School
M.A., Queen’s University
B.A., Trent University Publications
‘”Enough Marvels and Mysteries as it Is”: Conrad, Aristotle, and Nature,’ The Routledge Companion to Conrad, Ed. Debra Romanick Baldwin (forthcoming July, 2024)
The Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle and Modernity (University of Toronto Press, 2023)
“Conrad and the Body, Joseph Conrad Society of America: MLA Panels 2016,” Joseph Conrad Today (2016)
“Orienting Desire in Almayer’s Folly and An Outcast of the Islands,” Joseph Conrad and the East, edited by Amar Acheraiou and Nursel Icoz, Eastern European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 2012
‘”An Irreconcilable Alliance:” Mind, Body and Responsibility in Lord Jim,’ Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 43.1 (2011)
“Recent Trends in Conrad Studies,” English Studies in Canada 36.23 (June/September 2011)