Burke Hilsabeck

Burke Hilsabeck is Director of Faculty Relations and Community in the Office of Faculty Affairs. Burke helps faculty members and academic administrators to develop and maintain positive and productive working relationships across campus.  His responsibilities include advising faculty and academic leaders on allegations of unprofessional behavior and making recommendations for administrative action as well as administering faculty development programming and providing coaching and training to academic administrators.  Burke is motivated by a desire to improve the lives of faculty by providing support around relationships, opportunities for professional development, and connection with the CU Boulder community.

Burke is a former tenured faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado, where he directed the Film Studies program and served as Chair of the Department of English. He holds a B.A. in English from Kenyon College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Slapstick Camera: Hollywood and the Comedy of Self-Reference (SUNY, 2020).