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Jill Hampton
Assistant Professor
Office: H&SS A5
Email: jillh@usca.edu
Jill Hampton earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Illinois in Springfield and her Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
She is a relative newcomer to USCA, having arrived in August of 2003. She teaches both writing and literature courses and especially enjoys her time teaching courses in the Women’s Studies minor at USCA. She hopes to combine her literary interests with film studies so that the English Department can expand its offerings of courses that study intersections of literature and film.
Currently, her scholarly work focuses on Irish-American and Irish Literature, particularly 19th-century Irish Women Writers working outside the margins of the Irish Cultural Revival. These concerns have recently led her beyond issues of post-colonialism into the realm of landscape theory in literary narratives. She is also interested in the questions concerning how American landscapes inform both Ethnic and Anglo-American literary identities. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening and equestrian activities of all kinds.
