Dr. Tom J. Hillard joined the faculty at Boise State University in 2007, after earning his PhD at the University of Arizona. He regularly teaches courses on American literature, especially in the early periods, with a particular emphasis on Gothic literature as well as environmental literary studies. His current research and scholarship explores the development of Gothic fiction in the early United States, and he is working on several related textual editing, bibliographical, and book history projects.

Dr. Hillard is a former Co-editor of the Boise State University Western Writers Series. Recent publications include articles on Sally Sayward Wood and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as well as contributions to Studies in American Fiction and Gothic Nature Journal. He has published widely on the “ecogothic,” and he co-edited (with Amy T. Hamilton) the book of essays Before the West Was West: Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). From 2011-2018, he served as Book Review Editor for the Oxford University Press journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, as well as co-editor for the textual recovery section of American Gothic Studies, the new journal of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic.