Fellows » Current Fellows » IHUM Fellow: Hannah Wells, PhD
Hannah Wells is a scholar of 19th-century American literature and culture. She received her PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania and her BA at the University of Chicago. She is currently at work on a book called Since Bodies Matter: American Pragmatism and The Color Line, which weds the histories of pragmatist philosophy, American literature, and Supreme Court rulings on the 14th Amendment. In particular, it examines the forms of racial nationalism that sit at the interface of these histories in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century US.
Before coming to Stanford, Hannah was an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Having taught at Penn, the Cooper Union, and the University of Toronto, she recently accepted a tenure-track position at Drew University in Madison, NJ. Her teaching and research interests include law and literature, political philosophy, Henry James, W.E.B. Du Bois, African American literature, and North American cinema.