Rate My Professor Ty Hawkins

Hawkins specializes in literary form, cultural rhetorics of national identity, violence, gender, and justice in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture. His monographs include Just War Theory and Literary Studies: An Invitation to Dialogue (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, co-authored with Andrew Kim), Cormac McCarthy’s Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Key articles feature 'The Eruption of the Sordid: Cormac McCarthy’s Resistance to Modern Ideology' in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2014), 'Bobbie Ann Mason’s The Girl in the Blue Beret' in War, Literature & the Arts (2015), and 'Vietnam and Verisimilitude' in War, Literature & the Arts (2012). He contributed chapters such as 'War and Morality' to War and American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and 'When the Sun Sets in the East: American Manhood and War Since Vietnam' to The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture (2021). Hawkins co-edited a special double issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory on 'Reading Contemporary American Warfare with Just War Theory' (forthcoming 2023). His awards include the Ohio Magazine Excellence in Education Award (2015), Faculty Scholar Program Awards from Walsh University (2017, 2014), Faculty Fellow Awards (2016, 2015), and the Walter J. Ong, SJ, Award from Saint Louis University (2009).