Hilary enjoys spending time with her family (especially in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan), reading mysteries, traveling, and doing Pilates and yoga.

Hilary Fezzey is an Associate Professor of English at UW-Superior, where she teaches courses in British and world literature and literary theory in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She received her B.A. from Northern Michigan University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. She has essays in Re-viewing Thomas Holcroft; the Adam Smith Review; and Big Picture Pedagogy. Her approach to teaching is student-centered, and she designs her courses based on learning goals that foster critical thinking. She views her role as a facilitator who creates a classroom environment and activities that give all students the opportunity to produce knowledge through hands-on practice, collaborative learning, and inclusive excellence.

Hilary Fezzey's research in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature examines prose representations of the abolition movement, the emerging working classes, and neurodiversity from the perspectives of cultural studies and gender studies. She also conducts scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) about fostering critical thinking and global awareness in the general education literature classroom through strategies such as invented dialogues and literary mapping.

2009, 2011, 2013, 2017 UW-Superior Faculty Development Grant

2014, 2017 UW-Superior Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Mentor

2016 UW-System Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID) Council Award for Outstanding Service

2013 UW-Superior Max H. Lavine Award for Scholarly Contributions to Contemporary Concerns

2011 University of Wisconsin System/OPID Grant to attend the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference

2010-2011 University of Wisconsin System/OPID Teaching Fellow for UW-Superior

2008 Purdue University Nominee for Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award

2007, 2008 Purdue University Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Teaching

2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Purdue University Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of English

2006 Purdue University Robert Liddell Lowe Dissertation Fellowship

2004, 2006 Purdue University Research Foundation Summer Grant

2004 Purdue University Pass with Highest Distinction on Doctoral Exam for Romantic and Victorian Literature

2008 - Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Ph.D., English - Purdue University – Dissertation/thesis topic: 'slave(s) of Desire": Representations of the Emergent Working Classes in British Romantic Prose" 

2003 - Master of Arts (M.A.) - M. A., English - Purdue University - "Maria Edgeworth's Fictional Histories of the Amelioration of Ireland and Slavery"

2000 - Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - B. A., English - Northern Michigan University