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Ann Hawkins

Hawkins, Ann

Professor

Office: 435
Email: ann.hawkins@ttu.edu
Web: http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/hawkins

Awards
Series Editor
Editor
Managing Editor
Scholarly Editions
Essay Collections
Exhibition
Articles
Edited Journal Issue
Scholarly Resource
Review Essays
Selected Short Essays
Reviews
Work in Progress

Romantic Women Writers Reviewed-Part III

Romantic Women Writers Reviewed-Part II

Romantic Women Writers Reviewed-Part I

Conradiana

Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History

Victims of Society (1837) by Marguerite Farmer Power Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Vol. 4 in Silver Fork Novels

Henrietta Temple (1837) by Benjamin Disraeli, Vol. 5 in "The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli"

Venetia (1836) by Benjamin Disraeli, Vol. 6 in "The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli"


Series Editor

  • Co-Editor, Ashgate Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, and Digital, Ashgate, March 2013-present
  • Former editor, History of the Book, a series of single-author texts, Pickering & Chatto, 2005-Jan. 2013

 

Editor

  • Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. 9 volumes. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011-2013.
  • Nineteenth-century Women Writers Reviewed. A Digital Scholarly Edition. 2013-present.

 

Managing Editor

  • Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 38.1 (Spring 2006-Fall 2011). Issues of Conradiana, beginning with 38.1, are available via Project Muse.

 

Scholarly Editions

  • Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Part 3. Volume 7-9. Ed. Ann R. Hawkins. Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
  • Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Part 2. Volume 4-6. Ed. Ann R. Hawkins. Pickering & Chatto, 2012.
  • Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Part 1. Volume 1-3. Ed. Ann R. Hawkins. Pickering & Chatto, 2011.
  • Victims of Society (1837) by Marguerite Farmer Power Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Vol. 4 in Silver Fork Novels, 1826-1841, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005.
  • Henrietta Temple (1837) by Benjamin Disraeli, Vol. 5 in "The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli," London: Pickering and Chatto, 2004.
  • Venetia (1836) by Benjamin Disraeli, Vol. 6 in "The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli," London: Pickering and Chatto, 2004.

 

Edited Collections

  • Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long-Nineteenth Century. Co-edited with Maura Ives. London and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, February, 2012.
  • Teaching Bibliography, Book History and Textual Criticism. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006.

 

Exhibition

  • "Marketing Shakespeare--The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, 1788-1805, and Beyond. " An Exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library, September 20, 2007 - January 5, 2008.
    [Brief Online Version]

 

Articles

  • "Reconstructing the Boydell Shakspeare Gallery." Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism. Ashgate Press, 2013. Peer-Reviewed.
  • “Mandatory Open Access Publishing for Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Ethics and Enthusiasm.” With Miles A. Kimball and Maura Ives. Rankings chart with E. Leigh Bonds. Journal of Academic Librarianship Forthcoming March, 2013. Invited. 8500 words plus chart. Link
  • “The Portrait, the Beauty, and the Book: Celebrity and the Countess of Blessington.” Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity. Ashgate, 2012. 49-78.
  • "Reconstructing the Boydell Shakspeare Gallery." Shakespeare and Romanticism. At Ashgate Press. 35 pages. Peer-Reviewed.
  • "Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington and Rambles in Waltham Forest." Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Ed. Stephen Behrendt. Alexander Street Press, 2008. 19 pages. Invited.
  • "Teaching the Skills of Documentary Editing." Journal of Documentary Editing 28.1 (Spring 2006): 136-42. Invited.
  • "Marketing Gender and Nationalism: Blessington's Gems of Beauty / L'Ecrin" Women's Writing 12.2 (2005): 225-41. Peer-reviewed.
  • "'Evoking Byron': the Manuscript and First Edition of Benjamin Disraeli's Venetia (1837)." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 98.4 (December 2004): 449-76. Invited and Peer-reviewed.
  • "'Formed with Curious Skill': Blessington's Negotiation of the 'Poetess' in Flowers of Loveliness." The Transatlantic Poetess: A special issue of Romanticism-On-the-Net. Ed. Laura Mandell. January 2004. 30 pages. Peer-reviewed.
  • "Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, and L. E. L. (Letitia E. Landon): Evidence of a Friendship." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 16.2 (Spring 2003): 27-32. Peer-reviewed.
  • "Mrs. Baillie's Testicles: Byron's Revision of De Monfort in Manfred" Recent Perspectives on European Romanticism. Ed. Larry Peer. Mellen Studies in Literature/Romantic Reassessment, Vol. 158. Lewiston: Mellen P, 2003: 105-38. ISBN: 0-7734-6984-2. Peer-reviewed.
  • "'Delectable' Books for 'Delicate' Readers: the 1830s Giftbook Market, Ackermann and Co, and the Countess of Blessington." Kentucky Philological Review March 2002: 20-26. Peer-reviewed.
  • "'Belonging to the Other Powers': Literary Intertexts, Astarte, and Byron's New World-View," Kentucky Philological Review 8 (March 1993): 21-28. Peer-reviewed.

 

Edited Journal Issue

  • A Special Issue of CEA Critic on Children's and Adolescent Literature. Co-edited. 64.4 (Fall 2002).

 

Scholarly Resource

  • Editor, Byron Chronology Romantic Circles: Scholarly Resources.
    A peer-reviewed collection of resources on Romanticism and Romantic writers.

 

Review Essays

  • "Women Speaking, Women Writing: Identity and Voice in an Age of Revolution." Eighteenth Century Studies. 36.6 (Spring 2003): 449-55. Invited.

 

Selected Short Essays

  • "Art and Artists: Great Britain-United States." Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. 3 vols. Eds. Will Kauffman & Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson. London: ABC-Clio, 2005. Vol. 1: 113-119.
  • "Countess of Blessington: a bio-bibliographical essay." Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Ed. Abigail Burnham Bloom. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

 

Reviews

  • Review of David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery's An Introduction to Book History. Routledge, 2005. SHARP Newsletter 15.2/3 (2006): 15. Invited.
  • Review of William J. P. Neish's The Speaking Eye-Byron's Aberdeen, People, Places, and a Poem. East Sussex: Book Guild Ltd, 2001. Romantic Circles Reviews, 6.1 (Spring) 2003. http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/back/neish.html
  • Review of Zachary Leader's Revision and Romantic Authorship. Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online. 2001.

 

Work In Progress

  • Byron and the Shakespeare Trade, a book-length study of Shakespearean commodification between 1780 and 1820, and of Byron's reaction and response, particularly in his letters & journals and in Manfred.
  • "Forging a Professional Identity: Graduate Student Discourse in Informal Professional Settings," an essay planned for submission to ADE Bulletin.