David Hawkes (professor of English)

David Hawkes (b 1964; Wales) is a Professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe, in the U.S. state of Arizona. He is the author of seven books and the editor of three. He has published over one hundred articles and reviews in such journals as The Nation, The New Criterion, In These Times, Cabinet, Bad Subjects, the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Huntington Library Quarterly, ELH, ELR, Milton Studies, Milton Quarterly, Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, Clio and many other academic and popular publications. He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement.[1] He currently lives in Phoenix AZ, Philadelphia PA, and Istanbul, Turkey.

Hawkes' monographs are: Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680 (Palgrave 2001), Ideology (Routledge 2003), The Faust Myth: Religion and the Rise of Representation (Palgrave 2007), John Milton: A Hero of Our Time (Counterpoint 2010), The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England (Palgrave 2011), Shakespeare and Economic Criticism (Bloomsbury 2015), and The Reign of Anti-logos: Performativity in Postmodernity (Palgrave 2020). He has edited John Milton's Paradise Lost (Barnes and Noble 2004) and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (Barnes and Noble 2005).

In 2002 a lengthy correspondence in The Nation followed Hawkes' critical review essay on Stephen J. Gould's final book.[2] In 2012 a special issue of the journal Early Modern Culture was devoted to a discussion of his anti-materialist literary theory.[3] In 2013 his 20,000-word article on Recent Studies in the English Renaissance for the journal Studies in English Literature angered critics with remarks on the contemporary economy that many found irrelevant to the topic.[4] Hawkes' work generally explores the connections between economics, literature and philosophy from an anti-capitalist perspective. His later work specifically addresses the cultural and ethical implications of usury and financial derivatives.

Education and academia

Hawkes attended Stanwell Comprehensive School near Cardiff, Wales. He took his B.A. at Oxford University, and his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. At Oxford, Hawkes was a student of the left-wing literary critic Terry Eagleton and at Columbia of Edward Said. Hawkes was associate professor of English at Lehigh University, has held visiting appointments at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and teaches each summer at North China Electric Power University, Beijing. He has received such awards as 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 works
  • Hawkes, David, Shakespeare and Economic Criticism (Bloomsbury: London and New York, 2015) ISBN 1472576977 [5][6]
  • Hawkes, David, The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England (Palgrave: London and New York, 2010) ISBN 0230616267
  • Hawkes, David, John Milton: A Hero of Our Time (Counterpoint: London and New York, 2009) ISBN 1582434379
  • Hawkes, David, The Faust Myth: Religion and the Rise of Representation (Palgrave: London and New York, 2007) ISBN 1403975590
  • Hawkes, David, Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680 (Palgrave: London and New York, 2001) ISBN 0312240074
  • Hawkes, David, Ideology (Routledge: London and New York, 1996, Revised second edition, 2003; Korean translation, 2001) ISBN 0415290120
  • Hawkes, David; Williams, LG; and Rubin, Alan; The Age Of The Image (PCP Press, 2016) ISBN 1539102734

Major articles
  • Hawkes, David, 'Against Financial Derivatives,' Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 01/02/2019;[7]
  • Hawkes, David, ‘How Noam Chomsky’s World Works,’ Times Literary Supplement, 8/29/12, pp. 3–5[8]
  • Hawkes, David, ‘The Evolution of Darwinism,’ The Nation, 6/10/2002, pp. 29–34[9]
  • Hawkes, David, ‘Milton and Usury,’ English Literary Renaissance 41:3, Autumn 2011, pp. 503–528
  • Hawkes, David, ‘Fiction Sets You Free,’ Times Literary Supplement, 10/24/2008, pp. 24–5
  • Hawkes, David, ‘Faust among the Witches: Towards an Ethics of Representation,’ Early Modern Culture 4, 2004
  • Hawkes, David, ‘Against Materialism in Literary Theory,’ Early Modern Culture 9, 2012

References
  1. "David Hawkes | Search | TLS". the-tls.co.uk. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
  2. "The Evolution of Darwinism". The Nation. 2002-05-23.
  3. 'The New Idealism,' Early Modern Culture 9 (2012) http://emc.eserver.org/1-9/issue9.html Archived 2014-02-21 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Hawkes, David (2013). "Recent Studies in the English Renaissance". SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. 53: 197–243. doi:10.1353/sel.2013.0008.
  5. Throsby, David. "All's well that spends well". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  6. Parsons, Gordon. "Age Cannot Wither Him". The People’s Daily Morning Star. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  7. David Hawkes, 'Against Financial Derivatives, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, January 2019 https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/keBfFbgDnDcksFUb3K9v/full
  8. Hawkes, David. "How Noam Chomsky's world works | TLS". the-tls.co.uk. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
  9. Hawkes, David (23 May 2002). "The Evolution of Darwinism | The Nation". thenation.com. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
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