Hannah E Korell

Hannah Korell (PhD, McGill University) is an Assistant Professor of pre-1800 literature in the Department of Humanities and is affiliated faculty in the Women's and Gender Studies program. Her research studies how the intersections of religion and horror are shaped by cultural discourses surrounding gender, race, and sexuality in early modern literature and drama. Her research on witchcraft belief and early constructions of racial identity has been published in Shakespeare Studies and the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. She is currently co-editing a volume theorizing horror as a conscious aesthetic and affective genre within the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century public theatre, entitled Horror on the Early Modern Stage: Nightmare on Thames Street (Arden Shakespeare, 2026). 

At UW-P, Dr. Korell teaches topics courses such as Shakespeare on Page Stage and Screen, Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Monsters, Witches, and Demons), Classical Mythology, and 18th C British Literature (Sex, Scandal, and Society), as well as genre-focused courses on horror, sci-fi and fantasy, and the romance novel.