John Meredith Hill, Professor of English and Director of the University Reading Series, has an M.A. from Illinois and an M.F.A. from Iowa. He offers courses on the writing of poetry, modern poetry, colonial and postcolonial literature, and related special topics in addition to teaching several general education courses. His published work (poetry and fiction) has appeared in the American Literary Review, the Antioch Review, The Dickinson Review, Zone 3, and other journals, and he has won fellowships, grants, and residencies from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the University of Scranton. His cultural heroes include Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Bishop, Daffy Duck, and Matisse.

Read published poems of John Meredith Hill:

April in Elysian Fields Quarterly, The Baseball Review: HOT STOVE ISSUE, Vol. 23/No. 1 • 2006

Lyric Poetry in Zone 3, Spring 2003
Norwegians in Late Autumn, the Upper Midwest in Zone 3, Spring 2003
The Wind-Up, the Delivery, in Dogwood

Professor Hill is responsible for Works Cited, the English Department Newsletter.
He specializes in the following courses:

English

ENLT 121: Introduction to Poetry

ENLT 210: Modern Poetry

ENLT 348: Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction

ENLT 368: Conrad's Fiction

Writing

WRTG 210: Advanced Composition

WRTG 216: Poetry Writing I

WRTG 316: Poetry Writing II