Elizabeth Anne Hull, PhD (born January 10, 1937), is an American academic, political activist and science fiction expert.
She is Professor Emerita of William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, where she taught English for over 30 years.[1][2][3] She was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, and educated at Illinois State University (1954–55); City Colleges of Chicago (A.A., 1965); Northwestern University[4] and Loyola University (M.A., 1970, Ph.D., 1975).
In 1993, Hull was regional judge for the National Council of Teachers of English Achievement Awards in Writing.[5]
She has served as president of the Science Fiction Research Association and editor of its newsletter. SFRA awarded her the Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service in 1997,[6] and she has been a member of the panel for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel since 1986. For over ten years, she served as North American secretary for the World SF International Organization for Professionals.
With her husband Frederik Pohl, whom she married in 1984, Hull edited the international anthology Tales from the Planet Earth.[7] She is editor of the 2010 anthology, Gateways: Original New Stories Inspired by Frederik Pohl.[8][9][10]
In 1996, Hull, a former president of the Palatine Area League of Women Voters, was selected by the Democratic Party as its nominee against longtime Republican Congressman Phil Crane in the 8th Congressional District;[11][12] however, Crane was reelected.