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I joined University of Edinburgh as Chancellor's Fellow in June 2023. I was previously Lecturer/Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University of Warwick, and Teaching Fellow in Contemporary and Postcolonial Literature at University of Birmingham. I have also taught at University of York. In 2022, I held a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science short-term fellowship at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.
My research is situated in the Environmental Humanities. I primarily write about water in modern and contemporary world literature. I am interested in literary representations of water crisis, water infrastructure and technology, water and the state, water justice, and alternative hydro-social futures. My second main interest is in Environmental Humanities perspectives on Palestinian and Israeli literature and visual culture. My PhD was co-supervised in Geography (Sheffield) and English (York) and my research continues to be shaped by both of these fields.
My work has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the British Academy-Royal Irish Academy Knowledge Frontiers programme, the White Rose Universities Consortium, and competitive internal funding schemes at UCD and University of York.
I am Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities. I am also co-convenor of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network, and an affiliate of the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH).
English Literature, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature, University of York
Award Date: 1 Jul 2016
Cultures of Empire, Resistance and Postcoloniality, Master of Arts, University of York
Award Date: 1 Feb 2010
English Studies and Philosophy Jt Hons, Bachelor of Arts, University of Nottingham
Award Date: 1 Jun 2009
Ad Astra Fellow and Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
1 Sept 2020 → 31 May 2023
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Warwick
1 Sept 2019 → 31 Aug 2020
Teaching Fellow in Contemporary and Postcolonial Literature, University of Birmingham
1 Sept 2016 → 31 Aug 2019
Associate Tutor, University of York
1 Sept 2012 → 30 May 2016
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Hannah Boast (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Hannah Boast (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Hannah Boast (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Hannah Boast (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Hannah Boast (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Boast, Hannah (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Fellowships awarded competitively
10/05/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
25/10/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
26/12/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
22/04/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
24/06/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities