Denise Hill
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Ross-Blakley Hall 205AB PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Denise Y. Hill is the Associate Director of Writing Programs at Arizona State University, Tempe, where her research centers on the intersection of motherhood studies, disability rhetoric, and emerging technologies. Her work investigates the rhetorical performance of identity across public, domestic, and digital spheres. Her scholarship on digital ethos—examining how "grandfluencers" use short-form video platforms, platform vernaculars, and relational ethos to subvert ageist narratives of decline and build intergenerational virtual communities—appears in Computers and Composition. Hill is deeply committed to neuroinclusive pedagogy, volunteering outside academia as an advocate for neurodivergent young adults.
- Ph.D. Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona 2014. Areas of Specialization: Inclusive pedagogy, rhetorics of neurodiversity, new media literacies, disability studies, feminist theory, history of rhetoric and writing
- M.A. Literature (19th century British and American Literature), University of Nevada-Reno 2004
- B.A. English and Secondary Education; minor: Speech Communications (Summa Cum Laude), Grand Canyon University 1999
Inclusive pedagogy, rhetorics of neurodiversity, new media literacies, disability studies, motherhood studies, history of rhetoric and writing
"Metic Matriarchs: Cunning Intelligence and the Parasocial Ethos of the Grandfluencer." Computers and Composition, Volume 81, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2026.103023.
"Childrearing by the Book: Motherhood Manuals from Birth to Nineteenth-Century America." Normative Motherhood: Regulations, Representations, and Reclamations, Ed. Andrea O'Reilly, Demeter Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.1410589
"Mother, Daughter and Nation: Maternity as National Duty in Sylvia's Lovers." Pennsylvania Literary Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, 2022, pp. 139-153. ProQuest, https://login.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/s…;
“Closing the Refrigerator: A Rhetorical Vision of MySpace Autie Mommies.” Mothering Online. Ed. Michelle Moravec, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
Courses
2027 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
2026 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 108 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
Disability in College Composition Travel Award
Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2017
Exemplary Professional ePortfolio Award
Arizona State University, 2016
Difference and Inequality Teaching Award
University of Arizona, 2009
Ruth Gardner Teaching Award, finalist
University of Arizona, 2007
Scott Gordon Douglass Memorial Teaching Award
University of Nevada, Reno, 2002-2003