Katherine A. Hill
Associate Professor
English, College of Arts and Sciences
Harvey Hall 214
516.877.8160
khill@adelphi.edu
http://www.katherine-hill.com
Faculty Profiles
General Information
Diplomas/Degrees
Diplomas/Degrees
MFA, Bennington College (2008)
BA, Yale University (2004)
Recent Courses
Recent Courses
Fiction Workshop
Writing Fiction
Specialization/Interests
Specialization/Interests
Creative Writing
Contemporary Fiction
The Novel
Book Criticism
Books
Books
A Short Move (novel). Ig Publishing, 2020.
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (with Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, and Jill Richards). Columbia University Press, 2020.
The Violet Hour (novel). Scribner, 2013.
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
“Polygraphy: A Seminar on Collaborative Criticism.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Annual Conference. College Park, MD. October 12, 2019.
“What a Heroine Can Do: Female Protagonists Take Back the Narrative.” Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), Annual Conference. Portland, OR. March 30, 2019.
"The Slow Burn: Karl Ove Knausgaard's Struggle." Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), 10th Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. October 19, 2018.
"Reaching from There to Here: Broadening Student Perspectives Through Place-Focused Literature." National Book Foundation Why Reading Matters Conference. Brooklyn, NY. June 7, 2018.
"Shooters Gotta Shoot: Voice in Sports." Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), Annual Conference. Tampa, FL. March 8, 2018.
“Establishing a Sense of Place in Your Writing.” Conversations and Connections Conference. University of the Arts. Philadelphia, PA. September 28, 2013.
Invited Presentations
Invited Presentations
"Absent Author: Elena Ferrante's The Story of a New Name." 92nd Street Y. New York, NY. October 30, 2020.
"Elena Ferrante in Translation." Chicago Humanities Festival. Chicago, IL. October 6, 2020.
"American Innovations: A Conversation with Rivka Galchen." Adelphi University MFA Program. New York, NY. November 20, 2019.
"The First Novel." General Studies Learning Community. Adelphi University. Garden City, NY. February 17, 2017.
“Time Trial: The Novel.” MFA Literary Colloquium. Sarah Lawrence College. Bronxville, NY. November 16, 2016.
"Night at the Fiestas: A Conversation with Kirstin Valdez Quade." Adelphi University MFA Program. New York, NY. October 20, 2016.
“Arrogant Sympathy: The Invention of Character.” Arden Seminars. Harvard Club of New York City. April 17, 2014.
“Writing About Place.” Kelly Writers House. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. April 12, 2012.
Other Work
Other Work
"Illusions: HBO's 'My Brilliant Friend,'" The Nation, June 1, 2022.
"A Portrait of the Artist," Review of In the Margins by Elena Ferrante. The Guardian, March 16, 2022.
"Whenever She Has This Dream, Someone in Her Village Dies." Review of What You Can See From Here by Mariana Leky. New York Times Book Review, June 22, 2021.
"Who Gets to Save the World? Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Imagination," The Nation, April 13, 2020.
"Amy Hempel's Powerful Brevity," The New Republic, May 7, 2019.
"Dear Each and Every One of You." Essay in "The Slow Burn, vol. 2: Summer of Knausgaard," Post 45. October 26, 2018.
"Knausgaard's final book of 'My Struggle': Reality hunger, middle-class life, and epic passion." Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 2018.
"It seemed right that I try to transform myself by writing it." Conversation with Ross Simonini. The Believer Logger. January 8, 2018.
"Shadow Worlds: Jennifer Egan's new novel maps the networks of power under New York's surface." The Nation, December 4-11, 2017.
"There are plenty of male writers I can't abide." Essay in "The Slow Burn, vol. 2: Summer of Knausgaard." Post45. August 25, 2016.
"The Slow Burn: A Summer of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels." Serial essays with Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, and Jill Richards. Post45. 2015.
"If you love love, you have to love doomed love, too." The Guardian. February 14, 2014.
"The Tournament of Literary Friends." The Paris Review Daily. July 29, 2013.
"Literature's Fight Club." The Wall Street Journal Speakeasy. July 19, 2013.
"Master Class." Essay on Lynne Sharon Schwartz. The Paris Review Daily. April 4, 2013.
Creative Scholarship
Creative Scholarship
"In the Tank." Short story. Story. Summer 2023.
"Desire." Short story. Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, Summer 2022.
"Coach." Short story. CONSEQUENCE. June 2020.
"The Elena Ferrante in My Head." Essay. The Paris Review Daily. January 2020.
"Draft Day." Short story. The Common. Fall 2019.
"Scarlett." Short story. The Literary Review. Fall 2014.
"May, Monrovia." Essay. Guernica. October 2014.
"Provincetown." Essay. The Common Online. July 2013.
"Modern Athena." Essay. The Common Online. December 2012.
"Boxwood." Short story. The Common. May 2012.
"The Finest Milled Cotton." Short story. n+1. February 2012.
"Krasnoyarsk." Short story. AGNI. January 2012.
"Waste Management." Short story. Colorado Review. December 2010.
"The Work Boyfriend." Short story. Philadelphia Stories. April 2010.
"Seven Brides." Short fiction. Word Riot. October 2008.
Grants
Grants
Orchard House Residency, 2019
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017
New York Public Library Wertheim Study Fellowship, 2016
Yaddo Fellowship, 2015
Honors and Accomplishments
Honors and Accomplishments
PROSE Award in Literature, 2021
New York Times Editors' Choice, 2020
Longlisted for Dzanc Prize for Fiction, 2018
Hardman Writer-in-Residence, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 2016
Visiting Writer, Arcadia University, 2014
Visiting Writer, University of Hawaii, 2014
Nelligan Prize for Fiction, 2010
Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, 2009
Professional Activities
Professional Activities
Assistant Editor, Barrelhouse
Prison Writing Program Committee, PEN America
Enrollment Committee and Mentor, Girls Write Now
Benefit Committee, The Common
Juror/Visiting Critic, The Wassaic Artist Residency
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