Eugene D. Hill *80

Gene died in South Hadley, Mass., Aug. 19, 2024, after an extended illness.

Born in Manhattan in 1949, Gene graduated from Columbia in 1970. He studied as a Kellett Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and earned a Ph.D. in English from Princeton in 1980.

Gene served in the English department at Mount Holyoke College for 37 years, retiring in 2015. He taught the poetry and drama of the Renaissance, and was the last professor at Mount Holyoke to teach a course on Milton.

Gene was co-author of Donne and the Resources of Kind, and contributed a chapter titled “Revenge Tragedy” to A.F. Kinney’s A Companion to Renaissance Drama. He was the co-editor of the Garland Encyclopedia of Tudor England, the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. For 39 years, he served on the board of the journal ELR: English Literary Renaissance.

Gene is survived by his wife, Heidi Holder.

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