Hannah Pardey

Dr. Hannah Pardey is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anglophone Literatures/Literary Translation at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), where she has taught since October 2023. She coordinates the Centre for Translation Studies program and previously taught at the University of Hanover, where she completed her doctoral degree. Her academic work bridges postcolonial studies with digital humanities, focusing on how digital platforms transform literary reception and cultural production.

Dr. Pardey's research centers on postcolonial cultural studies, with particular expertise in Nigerian and Indian diasporic fiction, middlebrow literary culture in the digital age, and the history of emotions. Her scholarship examines how online reading communities reshape literary reception, with computational analysis of affective responses to contemporary postcolonial literature. She investigates the socio-economic dimensions of literary production, exploring how authors navigate globalization, migration, and national identity through narrative forms.

Her publications reveal a strong interdisciplinary trajectory, combining digital humanities methods with postcolonial theory to analyze online literary communities. Through computational analysis of reader reviews and social media discourse, she explores how digital platforms create new spaces for literary engagement that challenge traditional cultural hierarchies. Her work examines emotional nationalism in Nigerian fiction, socio-economic narratives in Indian literature, and the affective economies of digital reading communities, consistently connecting digital culture with postcolonial literary production.

• Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (2017-2021, 2023-2025)
• Arbeitskreis Cultural Studies
• German Association for the Study of British Cultures
• German Association for the Study of English

Dr. Pardey actively contributes to academic discourse through numerous conference presentations and invited lectures across Europe. Her research on digital literary communities and postcolonial affect has been presented at institutions including Ghent University, University of Bonn, and University of Hamburg, demonstrating her growing influence in interdisciplinary literary studies. She coordinates the Centre for Translation Studies program, connecting literary scholarship with practical translation studies.