Elisa Haf studied Modern and Medieval Languages (Spanish and German) at 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. Since October 2023, she is a doctoral candidate in Literary Studies at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule, working at the "Temporal Communities" Cluster of Excellence, specifically within the Research Area 1: "Competing Communities". Her research focuses on literary constructions of bisexuality, looking specifically at such constructions in Irish women's writing since 1995.

Current research includes an EXC 2020 doctoral research project, ‘Homotolerance’ and the Representation of Bisexuality in Irish Women’s Writing since 1995 (2023-).