Hilary E. Lithgow

Hilary E. Lithgow is a Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a BA from Haverford College (1995), an MA from Trinity College, Oxford (1997), and a Ph.D. from Stanford University (2004).

Her research focuses on Victorian and Modernist British literature, literature of war, narrative theory, and the intersections of literature with philosophy, science, and pedagogy. She co-founded Vets For Words, a veterans’ book group supported by the NEH, and has explored topics like trauma’s impact on literary style and the civilian-military divide in contemporary war narratives.

Her publications include analyses of war literature, aesthetic theory, and Victorian authors like Ruskin. Lithgow has received multiple teaching awards, including the Johnston Award (2020) and NACADA Advising Award (2016). She has led grants such as the NEH-funded 'Troops To Teachers' seminar and participated in academic advising initiatives.