Hill completed both a
Bachelor of Arts and a
Master of Arts at the
University of Auckland. Hill went overseas for further postgraduate training, completing a
PhD titled
Photographic fictions: photography in Italian literature 1945-2000 at the
University of Chicago in 2004. Hill then returned to New Zealand, joining the faculty of Victoria University of Wellington that same year. Hill was promoted to full professor in 2022. As of 2024, Hill is an Associate Dean in Victoria's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Director of the Bachelor of
Global Studies. At that time she was Head of the School of Languages and Cultures. == Selected works ==