Lena Michelle Hill is an American academic administrator serving as the provost of Washington and Lee University since 2021. She has worked as a professor of English and Africana studies and is an expert on Ralph Ellison.
Lena Hill | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Education | Howard University Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Vera Kutzinski Joseph Roach |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | African American literature |
| Institutions | University of Iowa Washington and Lee University |
Life
editHill was born to Carl and Gloria Moore.[1] She earned a B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from Howard University in 1997.[2] During her undergraduate studies, she attended Williams College in 1995 and Richmond College in Florence in 1996.[2] She completed a Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 2005.[2] Her dissertation was titled, Frames of Consciousness: Visual Culture in Zora Neale Hurston, Tennessee Williams, and Ralph Ellison.[1] Vera Kutzinski and Joseph Roach were Hill's dissertation directors.[1] She was a postdoctoral fellow from 2004 to 2006 at Duke University.[2]
Hill's scholarship focuses on African American literature and she is an expert on Ralph Ellison.[3][4] In 2006, she joined the University of Iowa as an assistant professor of English and African American studies.[2] Hill and her husband, Michael D. Hill, co-authored a reference guide on Ellison and co-edited a book about African Americans at the University of Iowa.[5] She was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2013 and served as director of undergraduate studies from 2015 to 2016.[2][5] She was senior associate to the president from 2016 to 2018 an interim chief diversity officer and associate vice president from July 2017 to May 25, 2018.[2][5] She was succeeded by interim diversity officer Melissa Shivers.[5] Hill joined Washington and Lee University on July 1, 2018, as a professor of English and Africana studies and dean of the college of arts and sciences.[6][3] In 2020, she served on the steering committee of the Gettysburg College Consortium for Faculty Diversity.[3] Washington and Lee University joined the consortium that year.[3] She was promoted to provost on July 1, 2021.[3][7] Hill succeeded interim provost Elizabeth Oliver.[8]
Selected works
edit- Hill, Michael D.; Hill, Lena M. (2008). Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Reference Guide. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-313-33465-8.
- Hill, Lena (2014). Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-04158-5.
- Hill, Lena M.; Hill, Michael D., eds. (2016). Invisible Hawkeyes: African Americans at the University of Iowa During the Long Civil Rights Era. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-60938-441-8.
References
edit- ^ a b c Hill, Lena Michelle (2005). Frames of Consciousness: Visual Culture in Zora Neale Hurston, Tennessee Williams, and Ralph Ellison (Ph.D. thesis). Yale University. OCLC 62136550.
- ^ a b c d e f g Hill, Lena M. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Washington and Lee University. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ^ a b c d e Kyaw, Arrman (2020-11-23). "Washington and Lee University Appoints Dr. Lena Hill as Next Provost". Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ^ "Lena Hill, Provost : Washington and Lee University". my.wlu.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ^ a b c d Miller, Vanessa (April 10, 2018). "Another University of Iowa administrator to leave". The Gazette. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ^ "Lena Hill Appointed Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2018-04-16. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ^ "Lena Hill Will Be the Next Provost at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ^ "Lena Hill Named Provost at Washington and Lee University". The Columns. 2020-11-10. Retrieved 2023-11-16.