David Hawkes (professor of English) explained

David Hawkes (b 1964; Wales) is a Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University, Tempe, in the U.S. state of Arizona. He is the author of seven books and the editor of four.

Education and academia

Hawkes attended Stanwell Comprehensive School near Cardiff, Wales. He won a College Scholarship to Oxford University (B.A. 1986), and later the Marjorie Hope Nicolson fellowship to Columbia University (M.A. 1988, M.Phil. 1990, Ph.D. 1992). At Oxford, Hawkes was a student of the left-wing literary critic Terry Eagleton, and an activist in the socialist-feminist group of scholars Oxford English Limited. At Columbia he worked with the Palestinian critic Edward Said, and contributed to various alternative and underground journals on the Lower East Side. Between 1991 and 2007 Hawkes was first assistant professor, then associate professor of English Literature at Lehigh University, and he has been a full professor of English Literature at Arizona State University since 2007. He has held visiting appointments at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2008), Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (2010) and North China Electric Power University, Beijing (2015, 2016, 2018). He received a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2002–03), and the William Ringler Fellowship at the Huntington Library (2006).

Published books

• Hawkes, David (ed.), Money and Magic in Early Modern Drama (Bloomsbury, 2022)
• Hawkes, David, The Reign of Anti-logos: Performance in Postmodernity (Palgrave, 2020)
• Hawkes, David, Shakespeare and Economic Criticism (Bloomsbury, 2015) ^{[1] [2]}
• Hawkes, David (ed. with Richard Newhauser), The Book of Nature and Humanity (Brepols, 2013)
• Hawkes, David, The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England (Palgrave, 2010)
• Hawkes, David, John Milton: A Hero of Our Time (Counterpoint, 2009)
• Hawkes, David, The Faust Myth: Religion and the Rise of Representation (Palgrave, 2007)
• Hawkes, David (ed.), John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (Barnes and Noble, 2005)
• Hawkes, David (ed.), John Milton's Paradise Lost (Barnes and Noble, 2004)
• Hawkes, David, Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature (Palgrave, 2001)
• Hawkes, David, Ideology (Routledge, 1996, Revised second edition, 2003; Korean translation, 2001; Vietnamese translation, 2022)

External links

• Marx and Shakespeare Today: David Hawkes' Lecture at Garrick's Temple 2017
• SurreyShakespeare SCT #22: Shakespeare and Economic Theory with David Hawkes
• Black Magic of Money: Interview with David Hawkes, 2012
• David Hawkes: Money, Finance, and the Power of Symbols, Against the Grain, March 7, 2012, KPFA 94.1 FM Radio
• "The Monetary Original Sin: Special Interview with Professor David Hawkes 2021

Notes and References

1. Web site: All's well that spends well . David . Throsby . The Times Literary Supplement . December 21, 2016.
2. Web site: Age Cannot Wither Him . Gordon . Parsons . The People’s Daily Morning Star . January 21, 2016 . January 22, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160122163632/http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c8a0-Age-cannot-wither-him#.VqLmAFMrKEJ . dead .