Heather N. Hill

Counterstories from the Reservation: Indigenous Americans Speak Back

Heather N. Hill, a Native American woman with long dark brown hair, sits in an office.

Dr. Heather N. Hill is card-carrying citizen of the Cherokee nation with an expertise in anti-racist pedagogy and linguistic equality. She is an assistant professor and the Writing Program Administrator at Northwest Missouri State University, where she teaches courses in academic writing and linguistics. Her research interests include linguistic diversity in America and its influence on the classroom, anti-racist writing pedagogy, and approaches to teaching for transfer. Her publications have appeared in The Writing Center Journal, WLN: Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, WPA: Writing program Administration, as well as others. Her expertise for this particular project comes from her experience as a Native American in higher education as well as her research on counterstory methodologies, sociolinguistics, and anti-racist teaching.