Education
PhD in English (2017 – )
University of Leicester
Supervised by Prof. Martin Halliwell and Dr. Zalfa Feghali
Thesis: ‘Destabilising the Psychopath Narrative through US and Canadian Women’s Writing’
Studentship: Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership
MA in English: Contemporary Literatures (2014 – 2015)
Leeds Beckett University
Distinction
Dissertation: ‘Aging in the Late Short Stories of Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro’.
BA in English Literature (2011 – 2014)
Leeds Metropolitan University
First Class with Honors
Dissertation: ‘Gender and Genre in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction’.
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Spruce, Hannah. ‘The Revolutionary Chora in Seamus Heaney’s Kite Poetry’, Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of Irish Studies, 11 (March 2016): 213-219. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2016-6241
PAPERS GIVEN
Intersectionality as our Shared Future: Responses to Patricia Hill Collins’ Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (2019), Conference Panel, chaired by Dr. Zalfa Feghali, English: Shared Futures 2020, Manchester, June 26-28, 2020.
Myriam Gurba’s Mean and the Feminist Rewriting of True Crime, Postgraduate Network of Contemporary Women’s Writing, University of Hull, September 9, 2019.
A Creative/Critical Response to Existentialism and Evil in Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, Evil Children: Children and Evil, Progressive Connexions Conference, Verona, Italy, July 14-16, 2019.
Disrupting the Conflation of Autism and Psychopathy in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction, Current Research in Speculative Fiction, University of Liverpool, June 29, 2018.
Portraying Psychopathy in the Clinical Tale, Modern and Contemporary Forum, University of Birmingham, March 21, 2018
BOOK REVIEWS
Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary Space by Debra Benita Shaw, LSE: Review of Books. May 15, 2018.
TransCanadian Feminist Fictions: New Cross-Border Ethics by Libe García Zarranz, LSE: Review of Books, August 17, 2018.
