Katherine Hill-Miller Appointed Dean at C.W. Post
English Professor and Noted Author to Head College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Port Washington resident Dr. Katherine Hill-Miller, a recognized scholar and author in the field of literary modernism and women’s literature, has been appointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, NY. Her new position takes effect September 1, 2003.

Founded in 1954, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the oldest school of study at the C.W. Post Campus and offers a diverse array of undergraduate and graduate programs in anthropology, biology, chemistry, earth and environmental science, English, foreign languages, history, interdisciplinary studies, international studies, mathematics, political science, psychology and sociology. Dr. Hill-Miller will oversee 13 academic departments, a faculty of more than 100 members as well as curriculum development. She will also provide leadership for the Study Abroad Program, the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Pre-Medicine and Pre-Law Programs as well as the nationally renowned Honors Program.

Dr. Hill-Miller, a long-time faculty member of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and current Acting Dean, was chosen from a broad and talented pool of highly qualified applicants after an intensive national search. She has served as professor in the C.W. Post English Department for 22 years. Before coming to C.W. Post, Dr. Hill-Miller taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Later, as a Fulbright Scholar to Germany, she also taught at the Universität zu Köln and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn. She received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1979.

Before assuming the duties of Acting Dean, Dr. Hill-Miller served in several other administrative capacities on campus: as the director of the Poetry Center (1982-85); as the director of Composition (1993-2000); as the co-chair of the Writing Task Force (1998-2000); as the chair of the Campus Committee on Student Writing (2001-2002). She has directed three major grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in its Summer Seminars for School Teachers Program, and has also been awarded the Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching and Long Island University Trustees’ Award for Scholarly Achievement.

Dr. Hill-Miller has published widely in the fields of literary modernism and Romanticism, concentrating on such figures as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley and Thomas Hardy. Her work in the field of women’s literature has focused on the question of literary fathers and daughters, and has included a book—My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship—as well as shorter studies of Virginia Woolf and Leslie Stephen, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie and William Makepeace Thackeray. Her most recent book is titled From the Lighthouse to Monk’s House: A Guide to Virginia Woolf’s Literary Landscapes (Duckworth and Company, London).

Of Hill-Miller’s appointment, Jeffrey Kane, Long Island University’s Vice President for Academic Affairs, said: "I am confident that Dr. Hill-Miller -- with the breadth and depth of her scholarship and proven administrative acumen -- will continue to strengthen an already vital college."