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Graham Hammill moved to UB from the University of Notre Dame in 2008 and became vice provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate School in August 2015. In October 2017, he was appointed vice provost for academic affairs, and in June 2025, he was appointed vice provost for faculty affairs and dean of the Graduate School. In that capacity, he is the primary executive officer of the Graduate School and is responsible for providing dynamic leadership to facilitate a culture of graduate student and faculty excellence that advances the University at Buffalo as a premier public research university. 

Hammill has a long record of academic leadership. Before becoming vice provost, he was chair of the English department at UB. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools, including as board chair; as president of the International Spenser Society; chair of the MLA Executive Committee for the Division on Renaissance Literature; and chair of the MLA Executive Committee for the Division on Psychological Approaches to Literature.

A Duke PhD, his primary areas of research are in early modern English literature, political thought and the history of sexuality. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including SAQ, ELH, Spenser Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly and Renaissance Drama. He is the author of Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe and Bacon (2000) and The Mosaic Constitution: Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton (2012), both published by Chicago University Press. He is the editor of several collections of essays, and has served on numerous editorial boards. Hammill is the recipient of many awards and grants throughout his academic career, including being named a UB Humanities Institute Research Fellow (2012-13), an award from the SUNY Conversations in the Discipline (2010) and a Kaneb Teaching Award from the University of Notre Dame (2006).