Assistant Director of Admissions
Degree: B.A., Wellesley College
Email: hmerrill@hampshire.edu

Reason why I love working for Hampshire: Hampshire offers a distinctive educational experience that allows students to explore their academic interests to a level not afforded by other institutions. The Hampshire students I work with and meet continue to impress and inspire me.

Favorite way to travel: Trains are Romantic with a capital "R," but my road bike is the love of my life.

Favorite poets: Anne Carson, Louise Gluck, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop are particularly spectacular.

Favorite literary quarterlies: The Paris Review and McSweeney’s.

Favorite Shakespearean plays: I adore the gender-bending comedies: Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, and Cymbeline.

Random fact about me: I’m a member of an all-female Shakespearean theater collective.