Hannah is a sociocultural linguist, and her research focuses on language use in popular media. In particular, she focuses on fictionalized speech styles, how they are produced, consumed, and perceived, and the relationship that these styles have with characters (kyara) and personae. She has explored these topics from a number of angles, including first-person pronoun use in shonen anime, script variation in yuri magazines, and katakana transformations in fantasy video games.
Hannah received her PhD in Japanese Linguistics at The Ohio State University in 2019, and she was a Hosei International Fund Fellow from 2019-2020. She has teaching experience in a number of subjects, including beginning and intermediate Japanese, linguistics, and media studies.
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