Hillary Chute (born 1976 in Boston, MA) is an American literary scholar and an expert on comics and graphic narratives.

[4] Chute's first book Graphic Women (2010) covers the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Lynda Barry, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel.

Her second academic book Disaster Drawn (2016) investigates how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history.

It explores graphic narratives that document the disasters of war by such artists as Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco.

[9] In March 2018, Chute was named a columnist on comics and graphic novels for The New York Times Book Review.