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Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill (born 1964) was born in Belleville, Illinois. She is a Writer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is a Professor and the Inaugural Edward and Linda Speed Peace and Justice Fellow at St. Mary’s University, Texas, which is a Hispanic-serving institution in the United States.



Education
Gasaway Hill was born in Belleville, Illinois, and was educated at Our Lady Queen of Peace parish school and Althoff Catholic High School.

Gasaway Hill earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from St. Mary’s University, Texas in 1986. She received two Master of Arts degrees from St. Mary’s University, Texas in 1990 (Political Science) and 1991 (English) respectively. She then attended the University of Houston earning a Master of Arts in Anthropology degree in 1997, and she earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Interdisciplinary Linguistics from Tulane University in 1999.

Career
Gasaway Hill began her teaching career in 1997 as a Lecturer, and then from 1999 as the Catholic Teaching Fellow at St. Mary’s University, Texas, before being named an Assistant Professor in the English and Communication Arts Department in 2000. Four years later she earned tenure and a promotion to Associate Professor. In 2008, she taught as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Dallas, and in 2010 she began a year long residence at the Corrymeela Community Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland. She returned to St. Mary’s University, Texas in 2011, and in 2014 was promoted to Professor and in 2018 to Director of the Graduate Program in the English Literature and Language Department.

She was the recipient of a United States Institute of Peace grant in 2013 and the Inaugural Edward and Linda Speed Peace and Justice Fellowship in 2015.

In 2020, she was named as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, in part for her work in the United Kingdom on story, forgiveness, and service locally and internationally at “Storywork: A Summer School in Narrative Practice” at the Corrymeela Community Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland in 2018 and 2019.

Publications
She is the author of numerous academic articles and books, including The Language of Protest: Acts of Performance, Identity, and Legitimacy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) and Stories from the Wake: The Revolutionary Responses of the Sodality of Bordeaux and Small Christian Communities (NACMS Press, 2005)

Hill also worked with Ginny McNeill Raska, one of Sallie McNeill's descendants, to transcribe, edit, and provide the historical and anthropological context to the original 19th century diary which is the basis of The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill, 1858-1867 (Texas A&M University Press, 2009).

Her most recent work is a 2021 book of poetry, Horizons of Joy: Poetic Thresholds for Winter (River Lily Press, 2021).

Awards and honors
Gasaway Hill has been recognized with several awards, including:

● Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, 2020

● Inaugural Edward and Linda Speed Peace and Justice Fellow, 2015

● Inaugural Class of Distinguished Alumni of Althoff Catholic High School, 2015

● Excellence in Education Award from San Antonio City Council District Seven, 2013

● Distinguished Faculty Award, St. Mary’s University, Texas 2004

● Marianist Heritage Award, St. Mary’s University, Texas 2000

● Alice Franzke Feminist Award, St. Mary’s University, Texas 1990