Hilary Hawley, PhD

Hilary Hawley CV (PDF)

I have been teaching in English, Matteo Ricci, and the University Core since 2008. I regularly offer courses focused on environmental and social justice issues in literature and rhetoric, often with a community-engaged learning component. Frequently taught courses include an Academic Writing Seminar on sustainable food and food security, an Inquiry Seminar in the Humanities on environmental literature, a Global Challenges in the Humanities seminar on the literature of activism, Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest (seminar for the Matteo Ricci Institute), Encountering American Literature, and an independent study course on Environmental Rhetoric. Common threads in all of my courses are understanding what writing and literature have to teach us about building a better world, environmentally, socially, and ethically, and engaging with community. My research focuses on the intersection between real-world rhetoric and literary responses to social and environmental injustices. I have also contributed materials and research to rhetoric and composition textbooks authored by my colleagues John Bean and June Johnson Bube. My major role outside of teaching is as Director of First Year Academic Engagement. There, I direct the university's first-term SUCCESS seminars, support first-year engagement initiatives, and lead the university's Common Text program.