Faculty

Dr. Dorothea Hawthorne
dhawthor@mvnu.edu
(740) 392-6868 Ext. 3502

Education:

• Ph.D., The University of Chicago, English Language and Literature
• M.A., The University of Chicago, English Language and Literature
• B.A., Grove City College, Literature

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor of English, MVNU
• Assistant Professor of English, Wheaton College
• Lecturer, Great Texts Program, Baylor University
• ESL Instructor, Educational Services International (P.R. China)

Professional Organizations:

• Harvey Fellows
• Modern Language Association
• Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
• Conference on Christianity and Literature

Awards and Recognition:

• Harvey Fellowship, Mustard Seed Foundation
• Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities Division, The University of Chicago
• Erasmus Institute Dissertation Fellowship, University of Notre Dame
• Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
• Pew Younger Scholars Graduate Summer Seminar, University of Notre Dame

Published Works & Presentations:

• Panelist, "Strategies for Flourishing in Literary Studies," Humanities Track, IVCF Graduate and Professional Conference 2008
• Book Review, Michael Davis’s Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan (Oxford 2002) in Journal of Religion 85 (2005): 361-62.
• Book Review, R.V. Young’s A Student’s Guide to Literature (ISI 2000) for the Emerging Scholars’ Network (2005)
• "Figuring the Fall in Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning," Conference on "Science, Literature, and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World," Binghamton University, October 2004
• "Female Prescience and the Return of Eden: Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum," Fellows’ Seminar, Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, 2001

Favorite Subject-Related Links:

• Books and Culture
• Today in Literature
• The Times Literary Supplement

Favorite Scripture Verse:

The book of Psalms