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. She joined Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2018 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. At present, she is editing a special issue of Textual Practice entitled 'Anti-Canonical Forms: Mediations of the Minor and Literary Experiment' and a collection of essays provisionally titled Ambivalent Lyrical Subjects: Representation and Literary Experiment in the United States (1970-2000), together with Tessel Veneboer.

She is PI on the OSL-funded research incubator project 'Creative-critical approaches to the Health Humanities' (2023-2025) and PI on the Flemish side of the FWO-Tournesol project "Mapping Performative Writing and the Page as an Expanded Field (1966-the present)" (2024-2025).

She is Chair of the Anna Kavan Society, sits on the editorial board of the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings and is a member of the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, the artistic research group Deep Histories Fragile Memories and the Critical Poetics Research Group.