Sally Hirsh-Dickinson (born January 7, 1971) is an American academic who is a producer and host for New Hampshire Public Radio, a New Hampshire politician, and an English professor at Rivier University, where she teaches courses on American literature, gender studies and public speaking.

Hirsh-Dickinson is the first person to write a full-length study, Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets: Sex and Race in Peyton Place, on Metalious's magnum opus, Peyton Place.

[4] During Hirsh-Dickinson's time as a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire she was a teaching assistant.

[5] While Hirsh-Dickinson was working on her dissertation about Peyton Place, Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets Sex and Race in Peyton Place, she received criticism because Grace Metalious is not considered to be part of the literary fiction genre.

[citation needed] However, despite initial opposition in academia during the research process, her book was later acclaimed in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2011.