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Hannah Eder is a research associate and PhD candidate at the University of Regensburg. Her PhD project focuses on changing representations of protest in British literature since 1979. Connecting past and ongoing protest movements (i.e. anti-nuclear and anti-globalisation movements, feminist and queer activism, hacktivism, environmental struggle) and their formal and aesthetic expression, she investigates how counter-hegemonic dissent can/could be imagined throughout the neoliberal conjuncture. Her research interests include contemporary playwright's theatre (with special focus on formal experiment and feminist playwriting), left wing literature, critical theory, feminist theory and collectivity studies.

Research

  • late twentieth-century & twenty-first-century British playwright's theatre
  • left wing literature
  • collectivity studies
  • ecocriticism
  • feminist theory
  • critical theory
  • to be continued

Current Projects

PhD project: Figuring Protest: Towards a Literary and Cultural History of Collective Resistance, 1979-2022.

Short CV

  
2025-NowResearch Associate & PhD Candidate, University of Regensburg
2021Erasmus, University College Cork
2019-2025

M.A. British Studies, University of Regensburg (finished 2024)

State Exam Biology / English, University of Regensburg

thesis: Narratives of Precarity in Late Twentieth-Century Feminist 

Plays: A Comparative Analysis.

2016-2019

B.A. Linguistics / Comparative Literature, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck

thesis: Metaphorische Framing-Prozesse:
Die Implikationen linguistischer Relativität für innersprachliche 

Kommunikationsabläufe
(transl. "Metaphorical Framing: Implications of Linguistic Relativity 

for Intralingual Communication Processes").

Memberships

German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE)

Awards

Dr. Katharina Sailer Prize (2024)

awarded for the M.A. thesis "Narratives of Precarity in Late Twentieth-Century Feminist Plays: A Comparative Analysis".

Hannah Eder

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, M.A.

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