Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
“‘Cut off from the green reconciling earth’: Patriarchal Preservation and an Ecological Resistance in Aurora Leigh.” Victorian Review. Forthcoming 2025.
“‘Quite Overgrown’: Growth, Stasis, and Nature’s Rhythms in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters.” Gaskell Journal, vol. 38, 2024, pp. 67-89.
“Ecological Identity and Resistance in the Plantationocene: Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts..” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 31, no. 4, 2024, pp. 719–733, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isad034. Free link to view.
Short Fiction
“Double Exposure.” Porter House Review. March 11, 2019. (Available online)
"The Ghost in the Attic." Barely South Review. Volume 10.1. Fall 2018. (Available online and on Amazon).
"The Forest Beside the Marston Footpath." KAIROS. Volume 3, Issue 1. August 2018. (Available online)
"Sink or Swim." The Gordian Review. 2018. (Available online)
"Tire Tracks." The Asbury Review. Spring 2017.
“Sales.” The Asbury Review. Spring 2015.
Creative Nonfiction
“Elegy for a Mistake.” The Asbury Review. Spring 2015.
Poetry
"On Imagining John Keats at St. Cross Hospital," in Kentucky's Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology. Z Publishing House. April 10, 2018. (Available on Amazon)
“An Elegy for Potential.” The Asbury Review. Spring 2016.
“Wartime Casualties.” The Asbury Review. Fall 2015.
“Existential Crisis.” The Asbury Review. Fall 2015.
“Persistent Memories.” The Asbury Review. Spring 2014.
Conferences/Readings
“‘Sickly Plants’: Women’s Health and Botanical Experimentation,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference: University of Maryland, 2025.
“Our Best Classes EVER: Creative Teaching Practices in English,” English Graduate Student Organization Spring Symposium: University of Kentucky, 2025.
“‘Calf-Love’: Nature’s Rhythms and Romance in Wives and Daughters,” Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada: Canmore, AB, 2024.
“‘My Heart is Too Thoroughly Dried to be Broken’: Preserved Desires in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies: Cincinnati, OH, 2024.
“The Problem of the Infidel’s Fidelity in The Renegado,” English Graduate Scholars Organization Spring Symposium. University of Kentucky. March 20, 2021.
“MSU doing YA,” Winter/Spring Author Series Reading and Q&A. North Mankato Taylor Library, Mankato, MN. Jan. 23, 2020.
“These Scars are from Changing the Popper Oil,” Andreas Residency Reading, Good Thunder Reading Series. Minnesota State University, Mankato. Oct. 24, 2019.
“Increasing Social and Cultural Engagement in Composition Students,” Pedagogical Presentation. Graduate Scholars of English Association Spring Symposium, Minnesota State University. March 23, 2019.
"Sink or Swim," Creative Panel. John R. Milton Writers' Conference, University of South Dakota. Oct. 25-27, 2018.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
Myrle E. and Verle D. Nietzel Visiting Distinguished Faculty Program Award, The Graduate School, University of Kentucky, 2024.
Honorable Mention, Susan Morgan Graduate Essay Prize, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, for essay submission, “‘My Heart is Too Thoroughly Dried to be Broken’: Preserved Desires in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” 2024.
Travel Grant, Victorian Review, 2024.
Graduate Summer Funding Award, English Department Graduate Committee, University of Kentucky, 2024.
Outstanding Film Teaching Assistant Award, English Department, University of Kentucky, 2024.
Graduate Travel & Research Award, English Department Graduate Committee, University of Kentucky, 2024.
Runner-Up, Hamilton Prize, for essay submission, “‘Do you love me who have let you go?’: Patriarchal Preservation and an Ecological Resistance in Aurora Leigh.” Victorian Review, 2023.
Ellershaw Award for an Outstanding PhD Candidate, English Department, University of Kentucky, 2023.
William J. Sowder Award for Best Graduate Student Critical Paper, English Department, University of Kentucky, 2022.
Ben Wathen Black Memorial Scholarship in British Literature, English Department, University of Kentucky, 2021.
Andreas Graduate Fellowship, English Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2019-20.
Creative Summer Research Fellowship, English Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2018.
Academic Excellence in Journalism Award, Asbury University, 2017.
Journalism
—Hannah Schultz served as the executive editor of The Asbury Collegian, Asbury University's award-winning newspaper in Wilmore, Kentucky, her senior year. She also served on staff the previous three years in various roles, including features editor, international correspondent, news editor, and staff writer. During the summer of 2016, she was the Kentucky Press Association intern at The Jessamine Journal, a community newspaper located in Nicholasville, Kentucky. For a complete list of articles she wrote for the Collegian, please visit their website.
Opinion
"It's time to stop blaming the nation's gun violence on guns" in The Jessamine Journal. February 22, 2018.
"To those who don't understand my fear of Trump" in The Asbury Collegian. November 11, 2016.
Features
"What does a sexual harassment case look like at Asbury?" in The Asbury Collegian. February 20, 2017.
"Taking Shape" in Jessamine Life, pg. 33. Spring 2017.
News
"Minimum wage still a divisive issue" in The Asbury Collegian. February 5, 2016.
"Asbury students excel at Oxford" in The Asbury Collegian. March 27, 2015.