Dr John Hawke - Researcher Profile

John Hawke

Address

School of English Comms & Perf Studies
Faculty of Arts, Clayton

Biography

I received my PhD in English from the University of Sydney, where my thesis was awarded the Dame Leonie Kramer Prize in 1999. From 1997-2006 I taught literary theory within the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong; I am currently a Senior Lecturer, specializing in poetry, in the Department of English at Monash. My poetry has been widely published, and has received a number of grants and prizes, including the 1994 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. I have been involved in editing literary publications since 1981, and in recent years was an Assistant Editor for Heat magazine and a contributing editor to Southerly and Boxkite. As coordinator and judge of the Newcastle Poetry Prize I edited two anthologies of Australian poetry, The New World Tattoo (1996) and The Nightjar (1997). My critical study, Australian Literature and the Symbolist Movement, is published by University of Wollongong Press; a selection of poetry, The Illustrated Library, will appear with Salt Press (Cambridge) in 2010. I co-convened the Poetry and the Trace international conference held at the State Library of Victoria in July 2008.

My research has taken a comparative approach to the historical relationship between French Symbolist and Modernist poetics and its influence on contemporary poetry. Australian Literature and the Symbolist Movement surveys the local reception of international Modernism through poets such as Christopher Brennan, Kenneth Slessor and Judith Wright, as well as critics such as A.R.Chisholm and James McAuley. It argues that the influence of the French Symbolist aesthetic is comparable in our literature to that of the dominant nationalist movement, and that the local response to these ideas was in advance of other areas of the English-speaking world.

Qualifications

PHD ENGLISH
Institution: University of Sydney
Year awarded: 1999
BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS)
Institution: University of Sydney
Year awarded: 1994

Publications

Books

Hawke, B.J., 2009, Australian Literature and the Symbolist Movement, University of Wollongong Press, Wollongong NSW, Australia.

Journal Articles

Hawke, B.J., 2004, In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter’s Children, by Philip Hammial, Jacket: international poetry and prose magazine [P], vol 0, issue 26, Australian Literary Management, Balmain NSW Australia, pp. 1-5.

Hawke, B.J., 2002, Australian Literary Criticism: An International Approach, Slant: A Journal of Poetry [P], vol 15, Salt: the international journal of poetry and poetics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 71-100.

Other

Hawke, B.J., 2007, The Illustrated Library, Poem, The Age, Fairfax Media, Melbourne Vic Australia, p. 29.

Hawke, B.J., 2002, Departure, Poem, HEAT Magazine, Giramondo Publishing Company from the University of Western Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 231-232.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
"The lake a lilac cube": poetic cubism in John Ashbery's experimental poetry.
Supervisors:
Hawke, J (Main), Groves, P (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
'Bamboo in the backyard - emergence of Asia in Australian poetry'.
Supervisors:
Hawke, J (Main), Lokuge, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
'Un-Australian English': Cosmopolitanism and the Australian Aesthetic.
Supervisors:
Benjamin, A (Main), Hawke, J (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Attention and distraction in the poetry of Laurie Duggan, Pam Brown and Ken Bolton.
Supervisors:
Hawke, J (Main), Rigby, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Ern Malley and Authorial Intention: Beyond Partisan Perspectives to a 'Total Meaning' Framework.
Supervisors:
Dilnot, A (Main), Hawke, J (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Node/home: writing towards a domestic poethics.
Supervisors:
Hawke, J (Main).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Sugata Hisajo: innovationand constraint in Joryu haiku.
Supervisors:
Trefalt, B (Main), Hawke, J (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The Blue Book/Borges' tera to logical reader.
Supervisors:
Groves, P (Joint), Hawke, J (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The Logue of Thomas Lawrence: a Minor Literature.
Supervisors:
Hawke, J (Main), Alizadeh, A (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The Seagull, Black People in White Australia.
Supervisors:
Hawke, J (Main), Burke, J (Associate), Heenan, T (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The recent fiction of Murray Bail and Gerald Murnane. The mediation of Human Vulnerability through temporal existence.
Supervisors:
Hawke, J (Joint-co), Kossew, S (Joint).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Coralie, J.
Program of Study:
Resonance, reconnection, reparation: Judith Wright's radical 'green' writing project. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Rigby, C (Main), Hawke, J (Associate).
Student:
Evangelista, E.
Program of Study:
The lost comedian (a novel) & Beyond the latticed view: translating self, memory and place in a second language (exegesis). (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Lokuge, C (Main), Hawke, J (Associate).
Student:
Turner, L.
Program of Study:
Experience to Event: Memory and the Poetic Project. (Masters) 2009.
Supervisors:
Hawke, J (Main), Dilnot, A (Associate).