Peter Hawkins
Director of the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts
and Professor of Religion at Boston University
E-mail: psh@bu.edu

BA, the University of Wisconsin at Madison; M.Div. Union Theological Seminary; MA, Ph.D. Yale University. Formerly Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School, Professor Hawkins joined the BU Department of Religion in 2000. He has received fellowships from the Andrew Mellon and Henry Luce Foundations. Professor Hawkins' work has long centered on Dante, most recently in Dante: A Brief History (2006), "Moderno Uso" (in Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, XIII:1 [Spring/Summer 2005]), Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination (1999)—winner of a 2001 AAR Book Prize, and The Poets' Dante: Twentieth-Century Reflections, ed. (2001). In addition to Dante: A Brief History, Professor Hawkins has two co-edited volumes forthcoming in fall 2006: Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs (with Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg) and St. Paul's Letters to the Romans in the Middle Ages (with William Campbell and Brenda Deen Schildgen). He has also published books on twentieth-century fiction, utopia, and the language of ineffability. His essays have dealt with such topics as memory and memorials, the NAMES Project Quilt, televangelism, and scriptural interpretation. In 2006, Boston University awarded Professor Hawkins a Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Faculty Page at Boston University Department of Religion

BU Today: "Metcalf Winner Peter Hawkins on Teaching As Giving"

Cristine Hutchison-Jones
Program Coordinator,
The Luce Program in Scripture and the Literary Arts
E-mail: crissy@bu.edu | Phone: 617.358.1754

BA, The Florida State University.  Cristine entered the Religion and Society specialization in the Boston University Division of Religious and Theological Studies in 2001 as a post-BA PhD student.  Her area of interest is the religious history of the United States, with particular focus on the history of Christianity and religious intolerance.  She has been the Luce Program Coordinator since 2002.