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CURRICULUM VITAE Michael Hill Department of English The University of Iowa 308 English-Philosophy Building Iowa City, IA 52242-1492 Education Ph.D. in English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University; 2004 M.A. in English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University; 1995 B.A. summa cum laude, Howard University; 1993 Luard Scholar, Edinburgh University, Scotland; 1991-1992 Publications The Civil Rights Movement: A Historical Exploration of Literature. Santa Barbara [a monograph under contract at ABC-CLIO]. Invisible Hawkeyes: Iowa, Integration, & the Ellisons, co-edited with Lena M. Hill [an essay collection under contract at University of Iowa Press]. Review of David Caplan’s Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture. Choice (October 2014) 52.02. Review of Emily Lordi’s Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature. Choice (July 2014) 51.11 Review of Eric Hairston’s The Ebony Column: Classics, Civilization, and the African American Reclamation of the West. Choice (February 2014) 51.06. Review of Keith Clark and Robin G. Vander’s Perspectives on Percival Everett. Choice (October 2013) 51.02. Review of Justin Gifford’s Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing. Choice (August 2013) 50.12. “Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Continued Relevance of Grace,” Iowa Now January 22, 2013. Reprinted as “A Time to Honor King’s Tutelage on Graceful Living” in the Iowa Press-Citizen August 27, 2013. The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977-1993. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013. “Frank London Brown.” Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance. Ed. Steven C. Tracy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2011. 121-133. “Toni Morrison and the Post-Civil Rights African American Novel.” The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Ed. Leonard Cassuto. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. 1064-1083. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Reference Guide. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008. Co-author with Lena M. Hill. "You Wanna Go Deep, I Take You Deep: African American and Womanist Consciousness in Imperceptible Mutabilities of the Third Kingdom." Womanist Theory and Research 2:1 (Fall/Winter 1996-7): 48-56. Teaching and African American literature; 20th-century American literature; Drama; Research Popular Culture; Narrative Theory; Nationalism, Gender, and Race Interests Honors Obermann Center Fellow in Residence, Fall 2014 And The Nick Aaron Ford-Waters Edward Turpin Symposium on African American Fellowships Literature Award, 2013 Perry A. and Helen Judy Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction Recipient, Spring 2013 Center for Teaching/ITS-Instructional Services APPtitude Workshop Participant, Spring 2012 Obermann Center Cmiel Research Semester Participant, Spring 2012 Arts & Humanities Initiative Award, 2010-2011 Faith & Learning Award, Geneva Lecture Committee-University of Iowa, 2010 Outstanding Support and Outreach Award, The Office of Student Life-University of Iowa, 2009 Old Gold Summer Research Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2007 Faculty Appreciation Award, Wake Forest Interfraternity Council, Wake Forest University, 2004 Archie Grant, Wake Forest University, 2002 Mellon Summer Research Fellowship, Harvard University, 1997 Distinguished Teaching Award, Harvard University, 1996 Graduate Prize Fellowship, Harvard University, 1993-1999 Phi Beta Kappa, Howard University, 1993 Professional “Unsigned Petitions: Ralph Ellison's Alternative Endorsement of Toni Morrison,” Presentations Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference, Oklahoma City: March 8, 2014 “How Long, Too Long: Stoicism’s Place in Democracy for Martin Luther King, Jr., and W. E. B. Du Bois.” Modern Language Association, Chicago: January 11, 2014 “Don’t Let King Down: J Cole, Toni Morrison, and the Art of Honoring Elders.” Keynote Speaker for Ford-Turpin Symposium on African American Literature, Morgan State University: October 24, 2013 “An Alternate Midwest: Ralph Ellison’s Visits to Iowa.” American Literature Association, Boston: May 23, 2013 “Harvesting Scattered Shadows: James Alan McPherson and the Lessons of Iowa,” Modern Language Association, Boston: January 6, 2013 “Sexy Adolescents and Black Civil Rights Novels,” English Department Faculty Colloquium, University of Iowa: November 1, 2012 “Keeping Hope Alive: Gender, Aesthetics, and Diaspora in ‘What America Would Be Like Without Blacks,” American Literature Association, San Francisco: May 25, 2012 “Wrestling the Old Master: Ralph Ellison and the Golden Age of Black Prizewinning,” American Literature Association, Boston: May 27, 2011 “The Buffet of Black Personality: Martin Luther King, Jr., in the 21st Century,” Iowa Wesleyan College Forum, Iowa Wesleyan College, January 20, 2011 “Concealed Canons in Outkast’s ‘Hollywood Divorce,’” Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, B.C.: November 13, 2010 “A Dual Journey: Navigating Academia as a Couple,” Summer Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies, Wheaton College, Norton, MA: June 11, 2009 “Living as Real People: The Challenge of Redemptive Artistry in Sent for You Yesterday,” American Literature Association, Boston: May 23, 2009 “Five Mics: Possibilities for a Hip Hop Canon,” CESA/MAASA: Identities and Technoculture Conference, University of Iowa: April 4, 2009 “Ralph Ellison and the Stakes of Vanquishing Anonymity,” American Literature Association, San Francisco: May 22, 2008 “Looking for a Native Tongue: Racial Identity in Reagan Era African American Culture,” NEXUS: Collected and Collective Identities, University of Tennessee-Knoxville: March 28, 2008 “‘What is Africa to Me?’: Cultural Identity in Prizewinning African American Novels of the Reagan Era,” New Research in African American Studies, University of Iowa: March 12, 2008 “Head Work: The Black Male Intellectual in The Chaneysville Incident,” Celebrating the African American Novel: Critical Visions and Revisions Of Its Past and Present, Penn State-University Park: April 1, 2005 “Moral Blackness: Adolescence in Civil Rights Novels,” African American Literature and History Series, Emory University: November 21, 2002 “Integration as Verdict: Legal Procedure in Nathaniel Hooks’ Town on Trial,” American Studies Association, Houston: November 15, 2002 “Like You Had Book Learnin’: Mentis Carrere and His Louisiana Fiction,” MLA, New Orleans: December 29, 2001 "Moral Crossroads: Cultural Maturity in Novels of the 1950s," The Millenium: Historicizing the Past, Present, and Future, Morgan State University: April 6-8, 2000 "Literary Appeals: Courtrooms in African American Novels of the 1950s," Cultural Connections in the Diaspora: Africa and the Americas, Florida A&M University: April 17, 1998 "Like Elevators: Orality, Literacy, and the Development of Rap Lyricism," disChord: A Conference on Contemporary Popular Music, UCLA: May 11, 1997 "Rap Music: Form and Aesthetics," International Conference on African American Music and Europe, The Sorbonne : April 27, 1996 "The Politics of the Modern Griot," Race As a Tool: Exploring the Intersection of Politics and Culture, Harvard University: April 13, 1996 "The Hustling Aesthetic: Black Male Identity in Philadelphia Fire,” National Black Graduate Student Conference, Mississippi State University: May 20, 1994 Teaching Associate Professor, The University of Iowa, 2013-Present Experience Taught the following courses: “Everybody Is A Star: Black Celebrity Since 1968” “The Toni Morrison Effect” Assistant Professor, The University of Iowa, 2006-2013 Taught the following courses: “African American Literature After 1900” “American Drama since 1900: The American Dream in Post-Brown African American Drama” “American Drama since 1900: Judging the American Dream” “American Literary Classics: The Observer-Hero Narrative” “American Novel Since 1945: Post-Vietnam African American Novels” “Literature and Culture of 20th Century America: Black Novels in the Reagan Era” “Introduction to African American Society” “Selected African American Authors: Suzan-Lori Parks and August Wilson” “Studies in African American Literature: Post-Vietnam Black Literary Criticism 1975-1990” “Studies in African American Literature: Prizewinning Novels, 1977- 1993” “Topics in African American Literature: Adolescence in African American Novels” “Topics in African American Studies: Classic Hip Hop – A Sound of Blackness?” Served on dissertation committee for 3 doctoral students in English, one student in American Studies, and one student in Political Science Served on comprehensive exam committees for 3 doctoral students in English and one student in American Studies Served masters thesis committee for 9 students in English, one student in Film, and one student in Dance. Directed senior honors thesis on African Americans in Vietnam War films ("Viewing Viet-Kong: Exploring the Misrepresentations of Black Men in Vietnam War Films.") Directed senior honors thesis on Frederick Buechner and historical fiction (“Re-Telling the Truth: Godric as Historical Novel.”) Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, 2004-2006 Taught the following courses: “Black Novels in the Reagan Era” “Introduction to American Literature” “Post-Vietnam African American Literature” “Voice in African American Experience” Directed senior honors thesis on Toni Morrison (“The Use of Color in Toni Morrison’s Beloved”) Directed senior honors thesis on Hip Hop (“Form and Flow: The Role of Analogy in American Hip Hop”) Reader masters thesis on Chicano Literature (“Gendered Archetypes in Chicano Fiction: