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Lena Hill

20th-Century African-American Literature, Visual Media

Lena Hill joins the English department and African-American Studies faculty this year. She specializes in twentieth-century African-American literature and is particularly interested in literary manipulations of visual art. She also studies intersections between visual media and American literature and drama more broadly, and her research has focused expansively on the work of Tennessee Williams. She is the co-author of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Reference Guide (forthcoming from Greenwood Press). Her current project contemplates the many ways black American authors from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth engage objects of art to portray interiority.