Lena Michelle Hill is an American academic administrator serving as the provost of Washington and Lee University since 2021.
[2] Her dissertation was titled, Frames of Consciousness: Visual Culture in Zora Neale Hurston, Tennessee Williams, and Ralph Ellison.
[2] Hill's scholarship focuses on African American literature and she is an expert on Ralph Ellison.
[3][4] In 2006, she joined the University of Iowa as an assistant professor of English and African American studies.
[5] Hill joined Washington and Lee University on July 1, 2018, as a professor of English and Africana studies and dean of the college of arts and sciences.