Biography
Ames Hawkins (they/them) is transgenre writer and author of the award-winning work of literary nonfiction,听These are Love(d) Letters.听Named as one of the Chicago Guild Literary Complex鈥檚 30 Writers to Watch, their work appears in many edited volumes, as well as across a range of scholarly and literary publications such as听QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Sydney Book Review, Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Pre/Text, Constellations, Palaver Journal, enculturation, Slag Glass City, The Feminist Wire,听The Rumpus,听and听Water~Stone Review.听As an art activist, Hawkins has been an invited curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography and has exhibited work at the University of Buffalo. A Professor of English and Creative Writing, they teach courses in queer literature, creative nonfiction, and cultural studies, as well as Big Chicago and Creative Communities courses. Hawkins is also a multimodal composer and in 2015-16 they co-hosted and co-produced the podcast听Masters of Text听(mastersoftext.com).
Instructional Areas
Queer/Trans Rhetorics, Queer and Trans Creative Writing, Creative/Literary Nonfiction, Writing and Rhetoric
Creative Practice and Research Interests
Creative-Critical Scholarship, Multimodal Composing, Art Activism, Collaboration, Letter Writing/Epistolary Forms, Transgenre Writing/Queer Writing/Transpoetics, Cultural Rhetorics
Degrees
B.A., American Culture University of Michigan 1990
M.A., Popular Culture Bowling Green State University 1992
Ph.D., English Wayne State University 2001