Gabrielle Hill

Gabrielle Hill (she/her) is a doctoral student in the joint degree program with the Department of African American Studies and the Department of English. Prior to Yale, Hill earned a dual B.A. in Africana Studies (summa cum laude) and Environment & Sustainability, with a minor in English, at Cornell University. Hill’s research sits at the intersection of Black feminist theory and ecopoetics; she explores how Black women’s relationships with nature create spaces of liberation and self-determination while producing ecological well-being. By analyzing the climate crisis as a narrative issue requiring a paradigm shift, Hill’s study of the literary, activist, and agricultural work of Black women imagines other ways of interacting with/being in ecology that listen to, protect, and empower marginalized populations as well as our vulnerable ecosystems.