Dr. Dorothea Hawthorne
Department Chair
Contact Information
School of Arts and HumanitiesAssociate Professor of English
740-392-6868 Ext. 3502Email Dr. Hawthorne
In The News
MVNU to deepen vocational exploration with NetVUE grant
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (Feb. 3, 2022) – Mount Vernon Nazarene University has received a nearly $48,000 Program Development Grant award from NetVUE to fund the expansion of vocational exploration in the student experience at MVNU. The grant will be used May 1 through April 30, 2024.
Professional Experience:
- Associate Professor of English, MVNU
- Assistant Professor of English, Wheaton College
- Lecturer, Honors Program, Baylor University
- ESL Instructor, Educational Services International (P.R. China)
- Harvey Fellows
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
- Conference on Christianity and Literature
- Christians for Biblical Equality
- 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
- “Rain Gardens and Runoff: Becoming Psalm 1 People,” First Presbyterian Church, Mount Vernon, Ohio, August 2016
- “Spiritual Disciplines: Practicing the Presence of God,” MVNU Chapel Series, April 2015
- “Shakespeare’s Tragic Mirror: Why Christians Need Tragedy,” Christian Writer’s Conference, Grove City College, March 2014
- “Imaging God in Literature: or, Does the truth need fiction?,” January Faculty Lecture Series, MVNU, January 2014
- “‘I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word’: Christian Debts to Jewish Identity in The Merchant of Venice,” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cincinnati, OH, November 2012
Education:
- Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- M.A. in English Language and Literature, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- B.A. in Literature, Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania