Thomas Hawks joined the Kenyon English faculty in Fall 2007. He teaches poetry writing workshops as well as classes on Modern and Postmodern literature and theory. His poems have appeared in Arkansas Review, Antioch Review, Image: A Journal of Religion and the Arts, Seneca Review and Western Humanities Review.

Education

Ph.D. University of Utah
M.F.A. University of Virginia
B.A. Cornell University

Selected Publications

Poetry
"Suspiria," Sonora Review 54 (2008) forthcoming
"Shooting the Moon," "Arlene," and "Nativity Scene." The New Formalist 6.2 (2006)
"Early Anatomy," The Literary Review 49.2 (2006)
Scholarship
"Trumbull Stickney." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Ed. Jeffrey Gray. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005
"The Aardvark's Tongue: Spike Lee, Malcolm X and Film in the Literature Classroom." College English Notes 32.1 (2005)

Courses Taught

English 103: Metapoetics and Metafiction
English 201: Introduction to Poetry Writing
English 280: American Modernism
English 291: American Poetry after Modernism
English 292: Literature of the Modern City
English 385: Contemporary American Poetry