Hannah Walser

Biography

Hannah Walser's research uses concepts from cognitive science and methods from digital humanities to investigate the history of represented minds. Her dissertation, titled Mind-Reading in the Dark: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, explored the role that non-intentionalistic models of the mind played in the selection and solidification of the American canon, from Charles Brockden Brown to Henry James. She has taught several undergraduate courses at Stanford, including a writing-intensive seminar on the contemporary neuronovel and a survey of mental illness in nineteenth-century American literature.

Research Interest

American Literature