Writing

Creative Writing

“An Herbarium.” litmosphere. Issue Two. Spring 2023. (2nd Place Creative Nonfiction judged by Melissa Febos.) https://www.charlottelit.org/litmosphere/litmosphere2023/hahn-an-herbarium/

“Earth Day 2020.” Sampsonia Way. https://www.facebook.com/cityofasylumpittsburgh/posts/heather-hahns-earth-day-2020-reflects-on-environmental-legacy-in-the-25th-poem-o/10157379948481231/

“Walking and Talking in Ruska Dolina.” Dostoyevsky Wannabe City Pittsburgh. Forthcoming. (creative nonfiction)

Academic Publications

“Jaya-tude!: Empowering Middle School Girls from Minority Populations through Yoga, Teaching College
Women to Become Mentors.” Girls, Cultural Productions, and Resistance. Co-authored with
Dara Brown. Eds. Michelle S. Bae and Olga Ivashkevich. New York: Peter Lang, July 2012.

“Pagans, Evangelicals, and Civil Discourse: Teaching Philosophy of Religion in the South.” Teaching Ethics,
Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2010. 21-35.

“Djuna Barnes: Paris und das dritte Geschlecht.” (“Djuna Barnes: Paris and the Third Gender”). A chapter
in Paris? Paris?: Bilder der französichen Metropole in der nicht-fiktionalen deutschsprachigen Prosa.
Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2002.

“The Attenuation of Color: The Ambiguous Role of the Female Academic in A.S. Byatt’s
‘The Chinese Lobster.’ ” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. Universität Kiel: Johannes
Königsberg, November 2002.

“Rainer Maria Rilke und Robert Lowell: Die Differenz des Übersetzens.” (“Rainer Maria Rilke and Robert Lowell: The Difference of Translation”). A chapter in Rilke und die Weltliteratur. Eds. Manfred Engel, Dieter Lamping. Düsselforf, Zürich: Artemis und Winkler, 1999.

Conference Presentations/ Speaking Engagements

“Beyond the Panopticon: Technology as Agent in Steampunk Novels of Surveillance.” Popular Culture
Association of the South Conference. Savannah, Georgia. October 2017.

“Steampunk, Automatons, and Cyberfeminist Posthumanism: Dystopia and Disruption.” Southeastern
Women’s Studies Association Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. March 2017.

“Parasols, Punks, and Re-purposing: The Philosophy of Steampunk.” Popular Association of the South Conference. Nashville, Tennessee. October 2017.

“When the Wife Doesn’t Feel Like Cooking: The Second Wives Movement in the U.S.” Southeastern
Women’s Studies Association Conference, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina. April 2016.

“Learning to Lie: The Liminal and the Marginal in the Swedish-Danish Television Series The Bridge.”
Popular Culture Association of the South Conference, University of North Carolina Wilmington,
October 2015.

“Writing for Women on Girls: The Role of an Online Girls Studies Journal for Undergraduate Scholars.”
Southeastern Women’s Studies Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, March 2015.

“When Second Wives Pay the Alimony of the First: Essentialism and the Politics of Divorce in South
Carolina.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida,
March 2015.

“Somatic Awareness, Self-Defense, and Asana: Teaching Girls about Agency and the Body.” Co-presented
with Martha McCaughey. Southeastern Women’s Studies Conference, UNC Wilmington, March 2014.

“Identity, Instagram, and the Male Gaze.” Co-presented with Isabella Jones. Southeastern Women’s
Studies Conference. UNC Wilmington, March 2014.

“Lips, Language, and Luce Irigaray: Plastic Surgery and the Language of Difference.” Co-presented with
Meredith Matthews. Southeastern Women’s Studies Conference, UNC Greensboro, April 2013.

“Feminist Phenomenology: Doing Yoga Like a Girl.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Conference, George
Mason University, March 2012.

“Georgia O’Keefe, Columbia College and the Feminine.” The Loblolly Society, Columbia, South Carolina, February 2012.

“Lisbeth Salander and the Long Arm of Justice: Ethics and Empathy in Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo.” Popular Culture Association in the South Conference, Savannah, Georgia, Oct. 2010.

“Content Goes in Better if First Invited to Come Out: Doing Philosophy and Engaging in Civil Discourse through Writing.” Writing Across the Curriculum Conference at the University of Indiana, May 2010.

“Pagans, Evangelicals, and Civil Discourse: Teaching Philosophy of Religion in the South.” The Ethics Across the Curriculum Conference at the Rochester Institute of Technology, November 2009.

“The Philosophies of Unitarian Universalism.” The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Columbia. April 2009.

“How We Take Root: A Phenomenological Analysis of German-American Space in Ursula Hegi’s The Vision of Emma Blau,” German Studies Association Conference in San Diego, California, October 2007.

“The Epiphany of the Face: Levinas’s Communal Being in Rilke, Kundera, and Cortazar,” Southern Comparative Literature Conference at the University of Georgia, September 2006.

“Xenophobia in Narnia: Orientalism in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia,” Popular Culture Association of the South Conference in Savannah, Georgia, October 2006.

“South Carolina’s Scarlet Women: Sexuality and Religion in the Novels of Annie Green Nelson and Julia Peterkin,” The Loblolly Society, Columbia, South Carolina, November 2006.

“Djuna Barnes: Paris und das dritte Geschlecht.” (“Djuna Barnes: Paris and the Third Gender”)
Parisbilder in der deutschen Literatur in Bad Homburg, Germany. March, 1999.

“Rainer Maria Rilke und Robert Lowell: Die Differenz des Übersetzens.” (“Rainer Maria Rilke and
Robert Lowell: The Difference of Translation”), The International Conference on Rilke und die
Weltliteratur at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. September 1998.