Elisa Haf obtained a BA in Modern & Medieval Languages (Spanish and German) from The University of Cambridge before going on to complete two Master's degrees: one in Critical International Politics at Aberystwyth University, and one in General & Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin. As of October 2023, she is a doctoral candidate in Literary Studies at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule, as well as a member of the "Temporal Communities" Cluster of Excellence, working within Research Area 1: "Competing Communities". Her research focuses on bisexuality in Irish women's writing since 1993.

Events & Conference Papers

"Tradwife Utopia: Gender and the Rejection of Technology in Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You?", IASIL Annual Conference, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - The University of Galway, July 2025 (accepted).

"'Tell me you want me': Love as Battle for Affirmation in Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times", Affective Societies International Workshop, Freie Universität Berlin, 6th March 2025 (accepted).

"'Come and Get Me': Prizeworthiness as Mechanism of Affective Investment in Sally Rooney's Novels", EXC TC Symposium: Literature, Pizeworthiness & Kinship Across Borders, Freie Universität Berlin, 27th Nov. 2024.

"'Stop Taking the Contraceptive Pill with Me': Reproduction as Route (Back) to Utopia in Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You? and Luiza Sauma's Everything You Ever Wanted", FSGS Annual Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, 15th Nov. 2024.

"The Un/happy Couple: Late Capitalism & the Death of the Heterosexual Dream – a conversation with Naoise Dolan" (moderation), Freie Universität Berlin, 11th July 2024.