Dr. Katherine Hill-Miller
Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
Administration Building
Campus Phone: 516-299-2233
e-mail: Katherine.hill-miller@liu.edu

Dr. Hill-Miller oversees the 13 academic departments in the College, a faculty of more than 100 members as well as curriculum development. 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 also provides leadership to the Study Abroad Program, the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Pre-Medicine and Pre-Law Programs as well as the nationally renowned Honors Program

Before being appointed Dean, Dr. Hill-Miller was a professor in the C.W. Post English Department for 22 years. She served the campus in many capacities including director of the Poetry Center (1982-85); as director of the Composition Program (1993-2000); co-chair of the Writing Task Force (1998-2000); and 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. 

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 (University of Cologne) and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn (University of Bonn). She received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1979.

Dr. Hill-Miller is a recognized scholar and author in the field of literary modernism and women’s literature. She has published widely in these areas, 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. She is also the author of From the Lighthouse to Monk’s House: A Guide to Virginia Woolf’s Literary Landscapes (Duckworth and Company, London).

For more information call the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at 516-299-2233.