About
DeLisa D. Hawkes is an assistant professor of Africana Studies and an affiliate faculty of the Department of English and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, specializing in nineteenth to twenty-first-century African American literature. Her current book project, Separate Yet Intertwined: Rediscovering Black Indigeneity in the New Negro Renaissance, examines literary representations of Black Indigeneity and Black and Native coalitions against white supremacy in New Negro Renaissance-era literature. Hawkes’s work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, including J19, MELUS, Women’s Studies, Langston Hughes Review, Studies in the Fantastic, North Carolina Literary Review, 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past (2020), and Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée (2023). She is currently a faculty fellow at the UT Humanities Center. Education
Ph.D. in English, U of Maryland-College Park
M.A. in English, North Carolina Central U
B.A. in English and History-Teacher Education, North Carolina State U Publications
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“More Than a Black Rat Sonofab—-: Animality in Defining Americanness and the Human in Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son.” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, vol. 12, no. 1, 2023, 83-98. DOI: 10.1353/pal.2023.a906873
Forum: “After Morrison.” Co-authored with Corrine Collins, Stephanie Li, Howard Rambsy II, Herman Beavers and Ryan Sharp, Women’s Studies, 2023, DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2023.2170376. (Invited)
“Hippolyta’s Awakening Through Spiritual Warfare in Lovecraft Country (2020).” Studies in the Fantastic, no. 12, 2022, 1-17, DOI: 10.1353/sif.2021.0010.
“To Fathom His Very Roots: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance and ‘Evidence’ of His Literary Racial Passing.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, vol. 9, no. 1, 2021, 69-80, DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2021.0008.
“‘My Uncle’s Cousin’s Great-Grandma Were a Cherokee,’ and I Am Descended from an Ashanti King: The American Blood Idiom in the Simple Stories.” Langston Hughes Review, vol. 27, no. 1, 2021, 29-46, DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.27.1.0029
“Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and New Negro Indigeneity.” MELUS, vol. 45, no. 3, 2020, 104-128, DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlaa033
“Fight for your life”: Segregation, Im/mobilities, and the Fight for African American Futures in Stephanie Powell Watts’s No One is Coming to Save Us.” Co-authored with Maia Butler, North Carolina Literary Review, no. 29, 2020, 120-133.
“Self-Realization in a Restricted World: Janie’s Early Realization in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” The Journal of Traditions and Beliefs, vol. 4, no. 5, 2014, 1-11.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Reparations and Passing in Pactolus Prime.” Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Works of Albion Tourgée, Eds. Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. Levine, Fordham UP, 2023, 57-69. (Invited)
“’ To Avenging My People’: Speculating Revenge for U.S. Slavery in Dwayne Alexander Smith’s Forty Acres.” 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past, Ed. Ruth Maxey, Palgrave, 2020, 245-263. (Invited)
INTERVIEWS
“Leaving Home to Return Home—Writing North Carolina Homeplace from the Particular to the Universal: An Interview with Stephanie Powell Watts.” Co-authored with Maia Butler, North Carolina Literary Review, no. 28, 2019, 6-19. (Invited)
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“College of William & Mary Indian School.” Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present, Eds. Russell M. Lawson and Benjamin A. Lawson, vol. 1. Greenwood, 2019, 43-44.
“‘Mulatto’ Experience in Antebellum America.” Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present, Eds. Russell M. Lawson and Benjamin A. Lawson, vol. 1. Greenwood, 2019, 151-153.
REVIEWS
Review of From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell. African American Review. (Forthcoming)
Review of The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States by Derrick R. Spires. African American Review, vol. 55, no. 2-3, Summer/Fall 2022, 239-241.
Review of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs edited by Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren. Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, vol. 29, no. 1, 2022, 131-134.
“The Year in Conferences—2020.” Co-authored with Rachael Heffner Burns, E. Dean, Sam Placensia, and Brianne Dayley, ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, vol. 67, no. 1, 2021, 279-348, DOI:10.1353/esq.2021.0011.
WEB PUBLICATIONS
“Albion Tourgée on the Color Line.” ANZASA (Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association) Online, June 30, 2020, anzasablog.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/alan-tourgee-on-the-color-line/. (Invited)
“The Realities of “Black Rage”: A Review of Dwayne Alexander Smith’s Forty Acres: A Thriller.” Pens and Needles, August 27, 2018, pensandneedles.org/the-realities-of-black-rage-a-review-of-dwayne-alexander-smiths-forty-acres-a-thriller/. (Website no longer in operation)
