Dr. Hannah Anderson
Positions
Sessional Instructor
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
PhD English Literature and Creative Writing, University of Calgary, 2025
MA English Literature and Creative Writing, University of Calgary, 2020
BA Honours English First Class, University of Calgary, 2018
Biography
Hannah Anderson is Red River Métis and a citizen of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government within Alberta. She holds a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary, where her creative writing and sports fiction dissertation manuscript Individual Medley was being funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Hannah lives, trains, and works on the unceded and traditional territory of the Kanai, Siksika, Piikani, Tsuut'ina, and Stoney Nakoda peoples, known in Blackfoot as Moh'kins'tsis and colonially as Calgary. She also competes nationally and internationally with the Calgary Rowing Club, and has raced for the University of Calgary Rowing Club and Alberta Rowing. A member of the Sports Literature Association, Hannah received the Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay Award in 2023 and 2024.
Research
Areas of Research
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| ENGL 251 | Literature and Society | Winter 2026 |
Awards
- SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC. 2022
- Eyes High Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship, University of Calgary. 2020
- Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay Award, Sport Literature Association. 2024
- Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay Award, Sport Literature Association. 2023
- CGS-M Research Scholarship, SSHRC. 2019
- Faculty of Graduate Studies Master’s Research Scholarship, University of Calgary. 2019
- Kathleen and Russell Lane Canadian Writing Scholarship, University of Calgary. 2019
- Queen Elizabeth II Graduate (Master’s) Research Scholarship, University of Calgary. 2018
Publications
- "the injustice, the confusion, the sacrifice": Fictional Examinations of Sports Heroes, Underdogs, and Developmental Athletes. Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. 17. (2023)
- Mapping Victorian Homes and Haunts: A Methodological Introduction. Dr. Karen Bourrier, Hannah Anderson, Sonia Jarmula, David Lapins, Kaelyn Macaulay, Peter Peller, Ingrid Reiche, John Brosz, Dan Jacobson. Journal of Victorian Culture. 9. (2021)
- Burnaby Lake. Gathering at Our Headwaters: Kinshipping Water, Kinshipping Bodies. Edited by Dr. Kimberly G. Wieser and Dr. Rain Prud'homme-Cranford, That Painted Horse Press (forthcoming). 11. (2021)
- “Let’s say it’s all text:" Reading the Indigenous Athletic Body, Sport as Lexicon, Sport as Homefinding, and Rewriting Sports Narratives as Creative Practice. Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. 10. (2025)
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