Dr. LL Hodges

Lily Lucas Hodges is Assistant Instructional Professor of History. They specialize in modern U.S. and LGBTQ+ history with a particular emphasis on the AIDS epidemic. They are currently completing their book manuscript Matter of Time: The Archives of Three Gay Fathers, a work of creative nonfiction which demonstrates how nonlinear time best explains queer genealogy. They have written pieces on queer history for The Washington Post, TIME, The Common, and elsewhere.

Their research and teaching interests also include critical and ethical inquiry of artificial intelligence. Their article “Against Tasks and Hallucinations: Returning to Thought in the Age of Machine Learning” (The History Teacher, August 2025) argues for a deconstructed essay model to meet the core standards for a history degree after the rise of ChatGPT.