I am a researcher in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture.

My current project studies landscape, description, and the afterlife of picturesque aesthetics in the realist novel.

My research focuses on the realist novel’s visual rhetorics.

I’m interested in poetry and poetics, aesthetics and visual culture, the nineteenth-century reception of romanticism, and twentieth-century theories of everyday life.

July 2022: Presentation at the Thomas Hardy Society 25th International Conference and Festival. Dorchester, UK.

I teach courses in literature and literary theory, intellectual history, and the environmental humanities.

Image: from The Architectural Notebook of Thomas Hardy, ed. C.J.P. Beatty

My writing appears in Jacket2Music & Literature, Asymptote, and elsewhere.

Hannah LeClair

Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

720 Williams Hall | University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA 19104