Meet our visiting PhD student: Hannah Reeves
Hannah Reeves is visiting us from Birkbeck, University of London.
Hannah is a PhD candidate in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, specialising in affect studies, performativity, feminist neomaterialisms and posthumanities. She will be a visiting scholar at AU Centre for Environmental Humanities throughout the Fall term of 2022. Hannah’s research project is based at Crossbones Graveyard, a post-medieval pauper’s burial site close to London Bridge. Having been redeveloped and disremembered after its closure, Crossbones has since been reclaimed by the local community as a ‘wild’ garden of remembrance. Using an experimental ethnographic approach drawing from open field poetics, Hannah’s work at Crossbones explores its more-than-human connective tissue as a site from which to enter into ethical relations with the dead whom we cannot identify by name. Hannah is passionate about fostering collaboration within and beyond academia, including with collaborators based in visual arts, archaeology, the natural sciences, and various other fields of knowledge-making. Outside of academia, Hannah is passionate about regenerative agriculture and community resilience, is a keen food grower and has recently begun teaching yoga.