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DaMaris B. Hill, PhD
Full Professor of Creative writing, English and African American Studies
Faculty Affiliate for Writing, Rhetoric and Digitial Studies
Faculty Affiliate for African American Studies
Faculty Affiliate for Gender and Women's Studies
Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies

Dr. DaMaris B. Hill’s most recent book, Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, is deemed “urgent” and “luminous” in a starred Publisher’s Weekly review. Her first book, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, is a searing and powerful narrative-in-verse that bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration. It was an Amazon #1 Best Seller in African American Poetry and a Publishers Weekly Top 10 History Title for the season. Her digital work includes “Shut Up In My Bones, a poem that uses “remix/pastiche, intertextuality, and irony as strategies of identity formation to remember and honor a specific cultural past, while at the same time working to construct visions of a better future”.

Similar to her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. Hill’s other books include The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, the chapbook, \Vi-zə-bəl\   \Teks-chərs\ (Visible Textures). Hill is a Professor of Creative Writing, English, and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky.

Contact Information
damaris.hill@uky.edu
1225 POT
Education
Doctor of Philosophy: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (2012), English - Creative Writing
Graduate Certification: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (2011), Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Master of Arts: Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD (2005), English
Bachelor of Arts: Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD (1999), English. and Psychology
Research Interests
  • Environmental Studies
  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • digital studies
  • technology
  • Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature and Culture
  • African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture
  • Creative Writing
  • Women's Literature and Gender Studies
  • Literary Theory
  • Race Theory
Affiliations
  • American Studies
  • English
  • African American and Africana Studies
  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Gender and Women's Studies
  • Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
  • MactDowell