Samantha Rose Hill

Samantha Rose Hill is a writer, scholar, and translator. She received her BA in political science from Albion College in Michigan and her PhD in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

Hill is the author of the biography Hannah Arendt (Reaktion Books, 2021) and is currently working on her next book, titled “Loneliness,” for Yale University Press. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Paris Review, the Guardian, Guernica, Lapham’s Quarterly, LitHub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Jewish Review of Books, and Times Literary Supplement. She is the editor and translator of What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt (Liveright Publishing, 2024) with Genese Grill. 

Hill is a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, where she teaches courses on twentieth-century German-Jewish history, nineteenth- and twentieth-century art history, and literature.