Yale Divinity School-Faculty

Peter S. Hawkins

Professor of Religion and Literature.

Hawkins

peter.hawkins@yale.edu
B.A. University of Wisconsin at Madison
M.Div. Union Theological Seminary
Ph.D. Yale University
Episcopal

Professor Hawkins’s work has long centered on Dante, most recently in Dante: A Brief History (2006); Dante’s Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination (winner of a 2001 AAR Book Prize); and The Poets’ Dante: Twentieth-Century Reflections, of which he was editor. His research in the history of biblical reception has produced three co-edited volumes: Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs; Medieval Readings of Romans; and From the Margin: Women in the Hebrew Bible (2008). He has also published books on twentieth-century fiction (The Language of Grace, Listening for God, co-edited with Paula Carlson), utopia, and the language
of ineffability. Professor Hawkins’s essays have dealt with such topics as memory and memorials, televangelism, scriptural interpretation, and preaching. From 2000 to 2008 he directed the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts at Boston University. He serves on the editorial board of the PMLA and on the selection committee for the Luce Fellows in Theology, and is regional representative for the Conference on Christianity and Literature.