Jill Caddell

English
✉︎ ccaddell@millerschool.org

B.A., UNC Chapel Hill
M.A., Cornell
Ph.D., Cornell

Dr. Jill Caddell joined the Miller team in 2025 after teaching at a variety of universities and independent schools, most recently the University of Kent and Glenelg Country School. Born and raised in North Carolina, she received her undergraduate degree from UNC Chapel Hill and her M.A. and Ph.D. in literature from Cornell University. Her dissertation on 19th-century American literature was awarded the Guilford Prize for Highest Achievement in English Prose. She has published her academic work in a number of journals and edited collections including J19, New England Quarterly, and the Oxford Companion to Herman Melville. She also writes creative nonfiction and fiction and has published in Apollo: The International Art Magazine, JSTOR Daily, Longreads, and CNN Opinions, winning the London Society’s International Prize.

Jill currently helps to edit the digital database Commemorative Cultures: The American Civil War Monuments Project with Dr. Kristen Treen and serves as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews. She moved to Crozet after five years of living in the United Kingdom with her family–husband Joe and sons Jack and Teddy. In her spare time, she enjoys cheering for the Tar Heels, traveling to literary tourist spots, sourdough baking, yoga, and (of course!) reading.