Hannah graduated Summa Cum Laude from Mount Holyoke College in 2015 with a B.A. in
English Literature and French. Her dissertation in progress, “Becoming Lesbian: Sex, Politics,
and Culture in Transnational Circulation, 1970-1998,” examines the proliferation of transnational
lesbian networks in late twentieth-century Europe and the United States. In her research, Hannah
seeks to understand how lesbian activists, artists, and thinkers translated local bonds of solidarity
and friendship into transnational activist networks. Her work asks how lesbian change-makers
confronted cultural, racial, and ethnic differences to craft a definition of “lesbian” that
transcended national borders. Hannah is a regular contributor to Public Seminar, and her article
“‘Our Point of Departure is Feminist’: Féminin Masculin Avenir and the Intersectional Origins
of Women’s Liberation in France" is forthcoming in Gender & History.
