Dr. John Hawley
Position: Professor of English/Department Chair
Email:
JHawley@scu.edu
Phone:408-554-4956
Curriculum Vitae
Mail Address:
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Biographical Information
Dr. John C. Hawley joined the faculty in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
He has served on the executive committee of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, and the MLA's executive committee on Literature and Religion, and is currently serving a five year term on the MLA's executive committee on Literature in English Other Than British and American. He is the recent President of the Faculty Senate. He is also the President of the U.S. chapter of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
Research Interests
- Victorian and postcolonial literatures
- Gender studies
- Intersection between religion and literature
Representative Publications
- He has edited a number of books including The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies (Greenwood, 2001);
- Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections (SUNY, 2001)
- Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations About the Other (Bucknell, 2000).
- In 2003 he guest edited an issue of South Asian Review, Globalization and Disapora
- He co-edited with Revathi Krishnaswamy a book on the intersection of globalization and postcolonial theory. In July of 2003 he presented a paper "Theorizing the Diaspora" at the Postcolonial and Globalization Conference at the University of Northampton, Great Britain
