Teaching Fellow
Research interests: Decolonization, Abolition, Poetics, History of the Americas, Black and Indigenous Critical Theory.
E-mail: mh215@queensu.ca
Office hours: By appointment
Education
Ph. D. Currently completing PHD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University
M. A. Critical Theory at Western University
B. A. English Literature at Western University
About
Marshall Hill is a scholar of the Americas who focuses on poetry as a site of investigation to consider how Black and Indigenous life re-writes notions and practices of human potentiality beyond regimes of racial capitalism and coloniality. His MA thesis took up this question in relation to the poets Aimé Césaire, Cecilia Vicuña, and Beth Brant to explore the poetics of decolonial thought. His PHD dissertation continues this work within a horizon of hemispheric exhaustion, arguing that while Black and Indigenous communities are kept in states of exhaustion by the dominant society, they in turn possess the potential to generate new forms of life that exhaust such structures and strategies of containment. He is Onyota'a:ka and a member of the Oneida Nation of the Thames.
Teaching
Winter 2021 – INDIG 301- 002: Contemporary Black and Indigenous Poetries