Alicia Jean Mireles Christoff and Adam Gray Hinds were married Aug. 24 at August Moon, an events space in Sheffield, Mass. Diana Quinn Inlak’ech, a sister of the bride who received permission from the state of Massachusetts, officiated, with Hillery Hinds Maxymillian, the groom’s sister, taking part.
Ms. Christoff, 37, is an assistant professor of English at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. She is also the author of “Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis,” which is to be published in December by Princeton University Press. She graduated and received a master’s degree, in English and American literature, from N.Y.U. and received a doctoral degree in English from Princeton.
The bride is a daughter of Judith A. Christoff of South Lyon, Mich., and the late Thomas A. Christoff. The bride’s father was a design engineer for the Ford Motor Company. Her mother retired as a sales agent for Delta Air Lines; she worked at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.
Mr. Hinds, 43, a Democrat, is a Massachusetts state senator. He represents the Berkshires area district, in Western Massachusetts. Before his election, in 2016, he was the director of Pittsfield Community Connection, a gang intervention program, in Pittsfield, Mass. He graduated from Wesleyan University and received a master’s degree in law and diplomacy from Tufts University.
He is the son of Patsy-Jill Hinds and Robert W. Hinds of Buckland, Mass. The groom’s parents both retired from Mohawk Trail Regional High School, which is in Buckland. His mother was a librarian and his father was a teacher for students with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
The couple met in 2017, when a former girlfriend of the groom who was also an acquaintance of the bride threw a cocktail party in Worthington, Mass., in order to introduce them. They had a first date shortly thereafter.
