Hanna Hoorenman is Assistant Professor in Modern English and American literature. She obtained her PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2010, with a thesis on the role of animals in 20th century American poetry, and has published on the work of Galway Kinnell, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill.

She specializes in American literature and popular fiction with a focus on historical fiction, posthumanism and critical love studies. Her current work in American popular fiction focuses on historical romance fiction and the ways in which women write themselves into history in stories that centralize love, community, and heritage. She is currently working on historical romance novels set in the Viking era, and is editing a collection on Viking history and mythology in 20th and 21st century popular culture. 

Her work on posthumanism in Anglophone literature interrogates the way in which humans investigate the boundaries of their humanity through stories of love with non-human others. 

Keywords: American literature, popular fiction, posthumanism, environmental humanities, critical love studies, cultural heritage studies, medievalism/ vikingism.