Anna Hill

Assistant Professor

Contact
Department of English
Office: Strode 612
Email: aah8@clemson.edu

Education
Ph.D. in English, Yale University; M.A. and M.Phil. in English, Yale University

Courses
Environmental Literature; Contemporary Literature; The Practice of Criticism

Research Interests
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature; literature of the United States; environmental criticism; memory studies; postcolonial/decolonial studies; affect theory; visual arts and visual culture

Anna Hill’s research and teaching focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, with a particular emphasis on literature of the United States, environmental criticism, memory studies, postcolonial/decolonial studies, and visual culture. Her current book project explores how authors reworked major genres of the American novel and tropes of environmental writing at the end of the twentieth century in light of emergent discourses about new socioenvironmental crises. This project makes the case that, as a dynamic vehicle of place-based, more-than-human memory, the realist novel offers a generative resource for environmental imagining in the Anthropocene. Before joining the Clemson English Department in Fall 2025, she was a Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in English and Environmental Humanities at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University, where she was awarded the Janice Carlisle Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In addition to her research, she is interested in public scholarship and creative collaborations, particularly involving literature, visual arts, and the interdisciplinary environmental humanities.