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Research Interests
Creative Writing
Literature African American and Africana Studies Gender and Women’s Studies
Digital Humanities
21st Century Cultures
American Studies
Biography
DaMaris B. Hill is a poet and creative scholar. Her most recent book, Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, is deemed “urgent” and “luminous” in a starred Publisher’s Weekly review. Hill’s first poetry collection, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, is a powerful narrative-in-verse that bears witness to Black women burdened by incarceration. It was an Amazon #1 Best Seller in African American Poetry, a Publishers Weekly Top 10 History Title, and 2020 NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. Hill’s other books include The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, and \Vi-zə-bəl\ \Teks-chərs\ (Visible Textures). Her digital work, “Shut Up In My Bones”, is a twenty-first century poem that uses remix/pastiche/intertextuality to honor a specific cultural past, while working to construct visions of a better future.
Similar to her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. She is a 2023-2024 Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Hill is a Professor of Creative Writing, English, and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky.
Courses Taught
Creative Writing
ENG 607 Graduate Writing Workshop: Fiction
ENG 608 Graduate Craft of Writing Workshop: Creative Writing in Digital Spaces
ENG 607 Graduate Writing Workshop: Poetry
ENG 507 Advanced Workshop In Creative Writing: Fiction Fundamentals and Futures
ENG 507 Advance Writers Workshop: Creative Writing in Digital Spaces
ENG 407 Intermediate Workshop in Imaginative Writing: Fiction Structures
ENG 407 Intermediate Writers Workshop: Creative Writing in Digital Spaces
ENG 395 Independent Study Workshop In Imaginative Writing: Creative Writing in Digital Spaces
ENG 207 Introduction to Creative Writing: Creative Writing in Digital Spaces
ENG 107 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 526 Jazz Composition in African American Literature, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
English Literature
ENG 780 Directed Studies in #21C: Twenty-first Century American Literature
ENG 260 Introduction to Black Writers
AAS 264 Major Black Writers
ENG 168/AAS 168 All That Speak of Jazz: Intellectual Inquiry in Jazz and Democracy
ENGL 526 Jazz Composition in African American Literature, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
ENGL 477 Morrison: Seminar in American Authors, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
ENGL 342 Movements in African American Literature, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
ENGL 317 Writing for Business and Industry, Towson University
ENGL 283 Introduction to Creative Writing, Towson University
ENGL 251 Applied Grammar, Towson University
ENGL 201 American Literature, Towson University
ENGL 102 Critical Reading and Writing, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
ENGL 101 Composition Studies: Genre Analysis, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
ELED 320 Writing Skills for Teachers, Towson University
African American Studies
EXP 396 Study Abroad Experience for Cape Town, South Africa
AAS 400 Special Topics in African American Studies: Jazz Literature in
African American Culture
AAS 401 Special Topics in African American Studies: Afrofuturism in
African American Literature-A Capstone Course
AAS 401 Special Topics in African American Studies: The Politics of Physical
Appearances in Popular Culture-A Capstone Course
AAS 200 Introduction to African American Studies
ENGL 350 African American Women’s Literature, Towson University
Gender and Women’s Studies
WGSS 333 The Politics of Physical Appearance, University of Kansas
American Studies
AMS 344 Case Studies in American Studies, University of Kansas
Digital Humanities
A&S 100 Toni Morrison’s Tale of the Golden Triangle and Beloved
ENG 608 Graduate Craft of Writing Workshop: Creative Writing in Digital Spaces
ENG 507 Advance Writers Workshop: Creative Writing in Digital Spaces
ENG 407 Intermediate Writers Workshop: Creative Writing in Digital Spaces
ENG 395 Independent Study Workshop In Imaginative Writing: Creative Writing in Digital Spaces
ENG 207 Introduction to Creative Writing: Creative Writing in Digital Spaces
Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Harvard University
Fellow/Scholar-In-Residence, Hutchins Center for African &African American Research at Harvard University 2023-2024
Brown University
Fellow with John Carter Brown Library, Early Americas Collections Fall 2024
Visiting Fellow in Race and Ethnicity, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Fall 2022
University of Kentucky
Full Professor, Department of English, Creative Writing Program 2022-Present
Affiliated Faculty: African American and Africana Studies , Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Media, Center on Equality and Social Justice Committee on Social Theory, American Studies Program
Associate Professor, Department of English, Creative Writing Program 2019-2022
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Creative Writing Program 2013-2019
Co-Founder and Interim Director of African American and Africana Studies Department and the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies 2020-2021
Scholar-In-Residence for Race and Teaching, Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching 2018-2019, 2015-2016
Faculty Fellow for Center for Graduate and Professional Diversity Initiatives 2018-2019
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department Spring 2013
University of Kansas
Program Assistant, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities 2011-2012
Research Fellow, Department of English Spring 2012
Teaching Assistant, Department of English 2009-2012
Archival Coordinator, The Project on the History of Black Writing 2009-2010
Grants Coordinator, Lied Center of Kansas 2008-2009
Goucher College
Director, Educational Opportunity Program 2006-2008
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University Of Kansas
2012
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Projects & Grants
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For My Beloveds- OVPR CURATE Program
Hill, D. (PI)
Office of the Vice President for Research
5/1/20 → 4/30/21
Project: Research project
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Harriet's Crown digital remix, digital poem - "OVPR CURATE Program"
Hill, D. (PI)
Office of the Vice President for Research
5/1/18 → 4/30/19
Project: Research project
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Black Lives Matter: 1619 to Now. Farrell III, Herman D. and Hill, DaMaris. Black Lives Matter: 1619 to Now. Directed by Jeremy Gillett, performance by The Department of Theater and Dance at The University of Kentucky, 24-27 February 2022, Guignol Theater at The University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Hill, D., Feb 24 2022, 200 p.Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
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Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood: 2. Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, memoir-in-verse/poetry. Bloomsbury Publishing, January 2022
Hill, D., Jan 11 2022, 200 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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“Time Period : Aug. 20, 1634-Aug. 19, 1639. Theme – Tobacco.” 400 Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (New York Times Bestseller). Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi, Eds. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021. Time Period : Aug. 20, 1634-Aug. 19, 1639. Theme – Tobacco.” 400 Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (New York Times Bestseller). Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi, Eds. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021.
Hill, D., Feb 1 2021, 400 Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (New York Times Bestseller).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, memoir-in-verse/poetry. Bloomsbury Publishing, January 2019 (several reprints). Paperback, January 2020
Hill, D., Jan 22 2019, New York, New York. 200 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Hill, D. B., 2019, In: Early American Literature. 54, 2, p. 325-327 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prizes
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Hutchins Center for African & African American Research/W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows
Hill, D. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Honorary award
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WEB DuBois Fellow/Scholar-In-Residence, Hutchins Center for African &African American Research at Harvard University
Hill, D. (Recipient), Jul 1 2023
Prize: Honorary award
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