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 Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts Randall
Hill learns from his students as he teaches them.
What I most enjoy most about my work is guiding the expansion of
his students’ “rhetorical, performative and cultural
sensitivities,” he says, but also “seeing how they
continue to teach me about how to experience this world,
study it, teach about it, and live in it with grace and humor and
humility.”
Hill cites
an illustrative rewarding experience as a teacher at St. Lawrence,
when he was the dramaturg (one who prepares a script for performance)
for “The Long
Christmas Ride Home,” a recent student drama presentation
on campus. “I
was able to work with very talented and committed students on a very difficult
and extraordinarily non-traditional script,” he says. Everyone took
the challenge, reveled in the difficulties and creative requirements, and trusted
each other to make a marvelous performance experience for both the audience
and themselves.”
As
a scholar, Hill researches Native American rituals (he is the coordinator
of St. Lawrence’s Native American studies program), modern
primitive movement, and performance and rhetoric. He’s
working two books, one on an 1864 massacre by U.S, Cavalry troops of
a native American village, and the other “a collection of personal
narratives from my tribe, the Lumbee Band of the Cheraw Nation.” When
not at work, he enjoys tennis, horseback riding and travel.
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