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 four. He has published over two hundred articles and reviews in such journals as ''The Nation,'' the ''Times Literary Supplement'',''The New Criterion,'' ''Quillette,'' ''In These Times,'' ''Cabinet,'' the ''Journal of the History of Ideas,'' the ''Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics,'' ''Modernist Cultures,'' ''Literature and Theology'' and many other academic and popular publications. He 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), John Bunyan's ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' (Barnes and Noble 2005),'' The Book of Nature and Humanity'' (Brepols, 2013) and '' Money and Magic in Early Modern Drama'' (Bloomsbury, 2022).

In 2002 a lengthy correspondence in ''The Nation'' followed Hawkes' critical review essay on Stephen J. Gould's final book. In 2012 a special issue of the journal ''Early Modern Culture'' was devoted to a discussion of his anti-materialist literary theory. Hawkes' work generally explores the connections between economics, literature and philosophy from an anti-capitalist perspective. He specifically addresses the performative, cultural and ethical connections between usury and non-procreative sexuality or 'sodomy.' In collaboration with the art historian Julia Friedman, Hawkes has recently published a series of articles on the aesthetic implications of Non-Fungible Tokens or "NFTs."

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. Between 1991 and 2007 Hawkes was associate professor of English at Lehigh University, and he has been professor of English Literature at Arizona State University since 2007. He has held visiting appointments at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and 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, The Reign of Anti-logos: Performance in Postmodernity (Palgrave: London and New York, 2020)
* Hawkes, David, Shakespeare and Economic Criticism (Bloomsbury: London and New York, 2015)
* Hawkes, David, The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England (Palgrave: London and New York, 2010)
* Hawkes, David, John Milton: A Hero of Our Time (Counterpoint: London and New York, 2009)
* Hawkes, David, The Faust Myth: Religion and the Rise of Representation (Palgrave: London and New York, 2007)
* Hawkes, David, Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680 (Palgrave: London and New York, 2001)
* Hawkes, David, Ideology (Routledge: London and New York, 1996, Revised second edition, 2003; Korean translation, 2001)

Major articles

*Hawkes, David (with Julia Friedman), 'Against De-Materialization: Tom Wolfe in the Age of NFTs,' Quillette (03/09/2022)
*Hawkes, David, 'Modernism, Inflation and the Gold Standard in T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound,' Modernist Cultures 16.3 (2021)
*Hawkes, David (with Julia Friedman), 'The Most Dangerous Place To Be,' The New Criterion (08/27/2020)
*Hawkes, David, 'Bawdry, Cuckoldry and Usury in Early Modernity and Postmodernity,' English Literary Renaissance 50.1 (2020)
*Hawkes, David, 'Against Financial Derivatives,' Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics (01/02/2019);
*Hawkes, David, 'Commodification and the Performative Sign in the Eucharistic Ethics of Luther and Calvin,' Literature and Theology 32.3 (2018)
*Hawkes, David, 'How Noam Chomsky's World Works,' Times Literary Supplement (08/29/2012)
* Hawkes, David, ‘Milton and Usury,’ English Literary Renaissance 41:3 (Autumn 2011)
* Hawkes, David, ‘The Evolution of Darwinism,’ The Nation, (6/10/2002), pp. 29–34

References

External links

''Marx and Shakespeare Today: David Hawkes' Lecture at Garrick's Temple 2017

SurreyShakespeare SCT #22: ''Shakespeare and Economic Theory'' with David Hawkes

''David Hawkes: Money, Finance, and the Power of Symbols'', Against the Grain, March 7, 2012, KPFA 94.1 FM Radio

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