Background
Hill was born on 24 October 1900 in the Russian city of Street St. Petersburg.
Hill was born on 24 October 1900 in the Russian city of Street St. Petersburg.
In addition to a career with the London University School of Slavonic Studies, she was also the course director of the JSSL, a United Kingdom Government training programme to produce linguists and interpreters of Russian, for military and intelligence purposes. She came from a prosperous Anglo-Russian family, her mother Russian, her father an English businessman. The family fled from Russia in 1917 and moved to London.
Early Life & Hill worked in several language teaching jobs before entering University College London, where she gained a First-class degree in Russian in 1924 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1928.
Her first university appointment was in 1936, when she went to Cambridge as a Lecturer. During World World War II Hill trained military recruits in Russian.
In 1948, she was appointed as the first Professor of Slavonic Studies at Cambridge. She held this position until 1968.
Teaching Style
Advocacy of Cambridge course over London course
Post JSSL Between 1968 to 1970, Hill served as Andrew Mellon Professor of Slavic Languages in Pittsburgh.