Hannah Kadin
Home Department: English
Hannah Kadin is a PhD student in Comparative Literary Studies with a home department in English and a Mellon Fellowship in Critical Theory. Her research interests include the history of literary and critical theory, decolonial theory, Latin American and Caribbean studies, utopia, ecology, the avant-garde, Marxism, and the history of Chicago’s experimental arts communities. She received a BA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College in 2023, where she was a founding editor of axium: a journal for comparative criticism and published creative writing in Meetinghouse magazine. Her undergraduate honors thesis developed the analytic category of surplus to read narrative literary forms that emerge from conditions of environmental destruction across the Americas.