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Peter Hawkins appointed to the facultyDante Returns to YaleMartin D. Jean
Prof. Hawkins is no stranger to Yale: After receiving the M.Div. from Union Seminary he earned his Ph.D. in the department of English here, after which he taught at Yale Divinity School and was subsequently appointed to the faculty of the ISM. His work has long centered on Dante, most recently in Dante: A Brief History (2006), Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination (1999) which was the winner of a 2001 AAR Book Prize, and The Poets' Dante: Twentieth-Century Reflections, ed. with Rachel Jacoff (2001). In addition, Professor Hawkins has two other co-edited volumes: Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs (2006, with Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg) and St. Paul's Letters to the Romans in the Middle Ages (with William Campbell and Brenda Deen Schildgen). Many alumni may be familiar with his four-volume series Listening for God: Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith done with Paula Carlson. He has also published books on twentieth-century fiction, utopia, and the language of ineffability. His essays have dealt with such topics as memory and memorials, the NAMES Project Quilt, televangelism, and scriptural interpretation. Equal to his renown as one of the most highly-esteemed scholars in the field of religion and literature is Prof. Hawkins’s reputation as a brilliant teacher. While at Yale he was regarded as one of its most popular professors; it is not surprising therefore that in 2006 Boston University awarded him a Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching – the most prestigious university-wide award for teaching at BU. As a testament to his skills as a dynamic speaker and communicator, long before there was a thought of his returning to Yale, the YDS faculty invited Prof. Hawkins to give the 2007 Lyman Beecher lectures in preaching. The recipient of fellowships from the Andrew Mellon and Henry Luce Foundations, Prof. Hawkins has also been a Starr Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Bogliasco Fellow at the Centro Studi Ligure, Bogliasco (Italy). He received a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. for a DVD companion to Listening for God, vols. 3 and 4. Peter Hawkins will begin teaching at Yale again in the fall of 2008 following his final year as director of the Luce Program at BU. Welcome home, Peter Hawkins! |
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I am delighted to announce the appointment of Peter Hawkins as
professor of religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred
Music and Yale Divinity School beginning July 1, 2008. Since 2000
Prof. Hawkins has been professor of religion at Boston University where
he has directed the Luce Program in Scripture and the Literary Arts,
which has staged conferences, lectures, workshops, and literary readings,
and sponsored visiting scholars and writers.