UDM English Faculty-Hill-Vasquez

Heather Hill-Vásquez, Associate Professor of English, received a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle. She joined the University in 2003. Her research focuses on issues of performance, spirituality, and gender in medieval texts, and her early literature courses consistently explore these topics. Her book, Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama, was published in March 2007 by the Catholic University of America Press. More recently, she has published articles on the changing symbolic meaning of the figure of the spinning woman in fifteenth-century England and on the role of pilgrimage in the medieval drama. Hill-Vásquez also directs the Women's and Gender Studies Program. She received UDM's Faculty Achievement Award in 2007. Her website speaks volumes.