Hannah Scheithauer

Hannah Scheithauer is a DPhil (Doctor of Philosophy) student at the University of Oxford, affiliated with Jesus College, The Queen’s College, and currently serving as a College Lecturer in Modern French and Francophone Literature at St. John's College. Her research focuses on transnational forms of memory in contemporary French and German literatures, supported by the Clarendon Fund and Queen’s College Graduate Scholarship. She co-convened the Oxford French Graduate Seminar (2022-2023) and was a guest doctoral researcher at Friedrich-Schlegel-Graduiertenschule, Freie Universität Berlin (2023-2024).

Education: B.A. in French and German (2016-2020), M.St. in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation (2020-2021), with additional studies at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and École Normale Supérieure Paris.

Research interests include multidirectional memory, postcolonial and Holocaust narratives, gendered identities in literature, and comparative approaches to French and German texts. Her work bridges cultural studies, literary analysis, and transnational frameworks.

Publications and presentations span academic conferences and blogs, addressing topics such as Odile Kennel’s poetics, Anouar Benmalek’s spectral time, and Jérôme Ferrari’s fictionalized ethics. Awards include the 2023 R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize and runner-up for the 2024 Women+ in German Studies Essay Prize.

Teaching experience includes courses in French and German literature, with a focus on fostering critical engagement with textual and translational challenges. Grants include the Clarendon Fund and Queen’s College scholarships.