Dr. Stephanie Hawkins

Dr. Stephanie Hawkins (BA, University of Nevada, Reno, 1993; MA, Wake Forest University, 1995; PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003), assistant professor, teaches courses in modern American literature and culture.

Her scholarly interests include science and literature, popular culture, ghost fiction, and modern poetry.

Dr. Hawkins’s publications include “The Science of Superstition: Gertrude Stein, William James, and the Formation of Belief” (Modern Fiction Studies 2005), “Stalking the Biracial Hidden Self in Henry James’s ‘The Jolly Corner’ and The Sense of the Past” (The Henry James Review 2004), and “Building the ‘Blue’ Race: Miscegenation, Mysticism, and the Language of Cognitive Evolution in Jean Toomer’s ‘The Blue Meridian’” (Texas Studies in Literature and Language 2004).

She is presently at work on two book-length manuscripts. The first explores National Geographic’s emergence as a cultural icon between 1900 and 1954, and is entitled American Iconographic: National Geographic and the Institution of an American Vision. The second, Spectral Realities: Race, Science and the Supernatural in Modern American Literature, examines how literary representations of evolutionary science and occult beliefs dramatize American cultural anxieties concerning race and national affiliation.

Office: Language Building, Room 409F
Phone: 940.369.7082
Email: shawkins@unt.edu