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Rob Hawkes

T:: 01642 384035
Job title:: Part Time Lecturer
E:: r.hawkes@tees.ac.uk
School/department:: School of Arts & Media

Research institute:: n/a

About Rob Hawkes

Rob Hawkes
Part Time Lecturer, School of Arts & Media
T: 01642 384035
E: r.hawkes@tees.ac.uk

Dr Rob Hawkes joined the School of Arts & Media in October 2012. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in English at Leeds Trinity University, where he has taught since 2010, and has taught previously at the Universities of York (2005-2009) and East Anglia (2009-2010). He completed his BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature at the University of Liverpool, his MA in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, and his PhD in English at the University of York. His thesis examined the fiction of the British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) in relation to theories of character, plot, genre and trust.

Rob is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ford Madox Ford Society (http://open.ac.uk/Arts/fordmadoxford-society) and is the Society’s Publicity Officer. In September 2012 he co-organised a major conference on Ford’s First World War modernist masterpiece Parade’s End, which has recently been republished in a four-volume critical edition by Carcanet Press and been adapted for television by Sir Tom Stoppard. The conference programme included a Q&A session with Susanna White, the director of the adaptation, and Rupert Edwards, the producer/director of Who on Earth Was Ford Madox Ford: A Culture Show Special. For more information please visit http://fordmadoxford-conference.weebly.com.

Research interests

Rob’s research is founded on interests in modernism and modernity, literature and money, war writing, and narrative theory. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns: Edwardian Fiction and the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and is currently co-editing three collections of essays on Ford and his writing. The first of these, Ford Madox Ford: An Introduction, contains essays by fourteen experts on Ford, modernism and the First World War and provides a comprehensive introduction to Ford’s life and work. The second and third volumes focus on Parade’s End: volume 13 of International Ford Madox Ford Studies, which will be published in 2014 to mark the WWI Centenary; and War and the Mind, which focuses specifically on Parade’s End and the psychological impact of the war.

Rob is also working on a major new book-project provisionally entitled Trusting Texts: Money, Modernity and Writing, 1890-1990. This work will focus on the issues of trust and finance in modern and contemporary literature, seeking to make interdisciplinary connections between literature, economics, sociology, and politics, and examining texts by writers ranging from George Gissing, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Evelyn Waugh to B. S. Johnson, Thomas Pynchon, Harold Pinter, Angela Carter, and Martin Amis.