Lloyd International Honors College

Dr. Hope Howell Hodgkins

English

Dr. Hope Howell Hodgkins (PhD, University of Chicago) has published essays on writers ranging from James Joyce to Muriel Spark, and on topics including high-modern poetics, religious rhetorics, children’s literature, post-war dress, and early-American literacies. She is the author of Style and the Single Girl: How Modern Women Re-dressed the Novel, 1922-1977 (Ohio State UP, 2016). She currently studies literacies in the early Southern backcountry and has been awarded research fellowships by the Kentucky Historical Society, the Filson Historical Society, and UNC-Chapel Hill’s Southern Historical Collection. In addition, she is working on a book about modernist literature and religion. Honors courses taught by Dr. Hodgkins include the seminars “Women Writers and Religion” and “Reading Daniel Boone,” and the Honors Abroad class—co-taught with Dr. Christopher Hodgkins—”Literary London: A Week’s Walk through History.”