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Hannah Scheithauer obtained a B.A. in French and German (2016-2020) and an M.St. in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation (2020-2021) from Jesus College, University of Oxford, and took courses at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2015-2016) and École Normale Supérieure Paris (2018-2019). She is now pursuing a comparative D.Phil. project at The Queen’s College, Oxford, which investigates transnational forms of memory in contemporary literatures in French and German. Her research is supported by the Clarendon Fund and a Queen’s College Graduate Scholarship. 

In 2022-2023, Hannah acted as co-convenor of the Oxford French Graduate Seminar, and in the winter semester of 2023-2024, she spent time as a guest doctoral researcher at Friedrich-Schlegel-Graduiertenschule, Freie Universität Berlin. 

Alongside her own research, Hannah has taught a range of courses in French and German. In 2024-2025, Hannah is teaching Modern French and Francophone Literature as College Lecturer at St. John's College, Oxford. 

Hannah was awarded the 2023 R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize by the Society for French Studies and was named runner-up for the 2024 Women+ in German Studies Essay Prize. 

Selection of Recent Conference Papers and Publication Projects: 

  • ‘Cycles of Violence and Fictions of the “Grey Zone” in Jérôme Ferrari’s Où j’ai laissé mon âme (2010)’, R. Gapper Postgraduate Prize essay; under review with French Studies.
  • ‘Spectral Time and the Ethics of “Multidirectional Memory”: Anouar Benmalek’s Fils du Shéol (2015)’, under review for a special issue of Holocaust Studies.
  • ‘Subversive Temporalitäten des Sprachwechsels bei Odile Kennel’, paper delivered at ‘AfterWords: Positioning German Poetry in the Twentieth Century and Beyond’ conference, Freie Universität Berlin/University of Oxford (02/2024), anthology forthcoming with Berlin Universities Publishing, Edition AVL series (2025).
  • ‘The Revue internationale (1960-1964): Towards an Intellectual Counter-Community of Memory’, paper delivered at ‘(Trans)national Memory Spaces’ conference, University of Aachen (05/2023), anthology forthcoming with De Gruyter (2025).
  • ‘A Place for Gendered Identities in “Multidirectional Memory”? Ingeborg Bachmann and Assia Djebar’, paper delivered at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting (06/2022).

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