About Hannah’s Academic Work

Hannah’s research focuses on four key areas: creating public feminist scholarship, building capacity for scholarly podcasting, addressing barriers to access in Canadian publishing, and understanding the history of magazine publishing in Canada. Their most significant area of scholarly activity has been the development of new forms of publicly engaged and community-accountable feminist scholarship, beginning in 2015 with the launch of her first podcast, Witch, Please, a feminist rereading of the Harry Potter series. Hannah is committed not only to creating their own podcasts, however, but also to building the capacity for more academics to take up podcasting; she enacts this commitment through her leading role in several Partnership grants that open space for new scholarly podcasters, her public advocacy for the legitimacy of podcasting and other forms of non-traditional scholarship, and her work creating new tools and resources to contribute to the long-term sustainability of scholarly podcasts. You can explore some of Hannah’s research projects below.

  • Amplify Podcast Network is on a mission to revolutionize scholarship and to create communities of support for podcasters who want to change the world. Amplify is home for creative soundworks rooted in serious scholarship, where accessible, sustainable preservation and publication are central to our work. Amplify supports the creation of scholarship that contributes to collective, public knowledge, born of research across the disciplines and interdisciplines of the humanities and social sciences, with a focus on anti-racism, feminist social justice, and community-building. Amplify podcasts explicitly or implicitly engage with the question of what constitutes scholarship by pushing at boundaries, whether they are formal, methodological, theoretical, or otherwise.

  • Publishing Unbound was a three-day symposium (February 9-11, 2018) co-organized by Hannah McGregor, Dr. Erin Wunker, and Heidi Waechtler, in conjunction with the Association of Book Publishers of BC and the Magazine Association of BC. It brought together authors, activists, scholars, and publishing professionals from across Canada for a conversation about systemic barriers to accessing Canadian publishing and the often-exclusive world of Canadian writing known as CanLit.

    Participants included Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Jordan Abel, Greg Younging, David Chariandy, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Fazeela Jiwa, Leanne Johnson, Karla Comanda, Jónína Kirton, Laura Moss, Adèle Barclay, Phoebe Wang, Léonicka Valcius, and more.

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