Jen Hill

Jen Hill joined the English department as an Assistant Professor in August 2000. She received an MFA in creative writing (fiction) before receiving her M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Cornell University. Her dissertation, "Unspotted Snow: Arctic Space, Gender, and Nation in the Victorian Imaginary," discusses the hold that arctic exploration held on the Victorian mind, its emergence in literature, and its unlikely centrality to discussions of gender and nation in nineteenth-century Britain. In addition to 19th-century poetry and fiction, the literature of exploration, nationalism, and gender, Jen is interested in natural history and science. She is editor of An Exhilaration of Wings: the Literature of Birdwatching, a compendium of birdwatching writing from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was published by Viking in 1999, and reissued in a Penguin paperback in 2001. She is Fitzgerald Distinguished Professor of the Humanities 2005-2007.

Jen Hill
Jen Hill joined the English department as an Assistant Professor in August 2000. She received an MFA in creative writing (fiction) before receiving her M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Cornell University. Her dissertation, "Unspotted Snow: Arctic Space, Gender, and Nation in the Victorian Imaginary," discusses the hold that arctic exploration held on the Victorian mind, its emergence in literature, and its unlikely centrality to discussions of gender and nation in nineteenth-century Britain. In addition to 19th-century poetry and fiction, the literature of exploration, nationalism, and gender, Jen is interested in natural history and science. She is editor of An Exhilaration of Wings: the Literature of Birdwatching, a compendium of birdwatching writing from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was published by Viking in 1999, and reissued in a Penguin paperback in 2001. She is Fitzgerald Distinguished Professor of the Humanities 2005-2007.
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