DaMaris Hill photo credit Beowulf Sheehan
20092022

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Personal profile

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

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  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, University Of Kansas

2012

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