Patricia Alveda Liggins Hill (1942 – January 23, 2023) was an American college professor. She was one of the first three Black professors hired by the University of San Francisco (USF), in 1970. She became the first director of the Ethnic Studies program (now Critical Diversity Studies), and taught at USF until her retirement in 2015. Hill was general editor of Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (1997).[1]
Patricia Liggins Hill | |
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| Born | Patricia Alveda Liggins 1942 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | January 23, 2023 (age 80) |
| Alma mater | Howard University; University of San Francisco; Stanford University |
| Occupation | College professor |
Early life and education
editPatricia Alveda Liggins was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Rudolph Liggins and Haroldine Alexander Liggins.[2] She earned a bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1965.[3] She earned a master's degree in English at the University of San Francisco (USF) in 1970. She earned a PhD in English from Stanford University in 1977.[4] Her dissertation was titled "The new Black aesthetic as a counterpoetics: the poetry of Etheridge Knight" (1977).[5]
Career
editIn 1970, Hill was one of the first three Black professors hired by USF. She became the first director of the Ethnic Studies program. She gained full professor status at USF in 1985. In 1994, she and three other female English professors sued four male professors for job discrimination and sexual harassment;[6] the case was settled out of court in 1997. Hill retired from USF in 2015.[7]
Publications
editIn addition to her own writings, Hill was general editor of Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (1997).[1]
- "'The Violent Space': The Function of the New Black Aesthetic in Etheridge Knight's Prison Poetry" (1980)[8]
- "'Let Me Make the Songs for the People': A Study of Frances Watkins Harper's Poetry" (1981)[9]
- "Frances W. Harper's Aunt Chloe Poems from 'Sketches of Southern Life': Antithesis to the Plantation Literary Tradition" (1981)[10]
- "'Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy': Etheridge Knight's Craft in the Black Oral Tradition" (1982)[11]
- "Frances Watkins Harper's Moses: A Story of the Nile: Apologue of the Emancipation Struggle" (1984)[12]
Personal life
editHill had two children, Sanya and Solomon. She died in 2023, at the age of 80.[7] The Dr. Patricia Liggins Hill BASE Scholarship was founded in her memory.[13]
References
edit- ^ a b Hill, Patricia Liggins; Bell, Bernard W.; Harris, Trudier; O'Neale, Sondra J.; Miller, R. Baxter; Harris, William J.; Porter, Horace (2003). Call And Response: The Riverside Anthology Of The African American Literary Tradition. Houghton Mifflin College Division. ISBN 978-0-618-45171-5.
- ^ "Paulette Yvonne Liggins (death notice)". Evening star. November 26, 1944. p. 14. Retrieved December 12, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Howard University, Commencement Program (4 June 1965): 3.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Patricia Liggins Hill, 1942–2023". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. February 17, 2023. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
- ^ Hill, Patricia Alveda Liggins. The new Black aesthetic as a counterpoetics: the poetry of Etheridge Knight. Stanford University, 1977.
- ^ "Women Sue USF, Citing Job Bias". Santa Cruz Sentinel. May 12, 1994. p. 7. Retrieved December 12, 2023 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ a b McCrackin, Sophia (March 2, 2023). "Remembering a Revolutionary: the Legacy of Patricia Hill". San Francisco Foghorn. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ Hill, Patricia Liggins (1980). "'The Violent Space': The Function of the New Black Aesthetic in Etheridge Knight's Prison Poetry". Black American Literature Forum. 14 (3): 115–121. doi:10.2307/3041662. ISSN 0148-6179. JSTOR 3041662.
- ^ Hill, Patricia Liggins (1981). "'Let Me Make the Songs for the People': A Study of Frances Watkins Harper's Poetry". Black American Literature Forum. 15 (2): 60–65. doi:10.2307/2904083. ISSN 0148-6179. JSTOR 2904083.
- ^ Hill, Patricia Liggins (1981). "Frances W. Harper's Aunt Chloe Poems from 'Sketches of Southern Life': Antithesis to the Plantation Literary Tradition". The Mississippi Quarterly. 34 (4): 403–413. ISSN 0026-637X. JSTOR 26474873.
- ^ Hill, Patricia Liggins (1982). "'Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy': Etheridge Knight's Craft in the Black Oral Tradition". The Mississippi Quarterly. 36 (1): 21–33. ISSN 0026-637X. JSTOR 26474723.
- ^ Hill, Patricia Liggins. "Frances Watkins Harper's Moses: A Story of the Nile: Apologue of the Emancipation Struggle". The AME Zion Quarterly Review 95 (1984): 11–19.
- ^ "A Scholarship in Memory of One of USF’s First Black Faculty Members" University of San Francisco Office of Development (February 15, 2023).
External links
edit- Hill's faculty page at the University of San Francisco