Mike Hill
Associate Professor & Department Chair, Department of English
Affiliate Faculty Member, Department of Women's Studies
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Critical Race Studies, Eighteenth-Century Writing and the Public Sphere; Materialist Cultural Theory
Humanities 344
442-4080
mikehill@albany.edu
Mike Hill's research focuses on contemporary
questions of race and whiteness, social movement
theory, materialist reconceptions of identity,
and most recently, the history of writing and
the emergence of the public sphere.
His primary publications to date are: Whiteness: A Critical Reader (New York University Press: 1997), which won the Gustavas Myers Award for Best Book of 1997; (co-ed) Masses, Classes, and the Public Sphere (Verso: 2001 www.versobooks.com); and After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority (New York University Press: 2004 http://www.nyupress.org/.)
Hill is currently on the editorial board of the Review of Education/Pedagogy/and Cultural Studies; Cultural Logic; and The Global South. He is also Associate Editor of the minnesota review.
His current work includes two books, both located within the period of "the long eighteenth century." The first book, Reading Adam Smith, examines the relationship between early-modern knowledge production, identity, and political economy; and the second, Reading, Writing, and 'Riot': The English Novel and its Multitude, 1660-1789, delineates how the amassing of public forms of "literary" writing prefigures collective agency as such in an age of democratic revolution and reform.
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