About
Scholar|Creative|Black feminist| Dr. Dominique C. Hill is a qualitative researcher and body archivist of intergenerational survival through Black girlhood and Black queer resistance. A Black girlhood scholar and homegirl of Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT), Hill takes seriously cultivating spaces for Black girl freedom. Hill extends the possibilities of Black girlhood and vulnerability as an assistant professor of Women's Studies at Colgate University.
Current Work
Hill facilitates workshops, teaches, mentors, as well as scripts, performs and produces scholarship in the form of plays (Bodies on Display), performance texts (Rupturing Silence), and poems (Black girl holiday). Hill's current book under contract, and tentatively titled Black girl pedagogies, examines the personal, embodied, cultural, and social histories of Black girls’ and advances an intervention and feminist methodology for surviving education and retooling the body after cumulative and compounded hypersurveillance. Hill’s body of work displays lived realities of Black girls and their communities as they navigate racism, sexism, and explore sexual systems of power and identity. Hill’s scholarship is recognized by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, the National Women’s Studies Association, and published in top tier journals, including Qualitative Inquiry and Cultural Studies?Critical Methodologies.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Black girlhood, Blackqueer creativity, embodiment, feminist pedagogy, vulnerability