We mourn the loss of Susan Hawkins, respected member of the Cormac McCarthy Society and participant in many Society-sponsored conferences and activities. Professor Hawkins earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Portland State University and in 1981 received her PhD from the University of Oregon with a dissertation, “The Poetics of the Postmodern American Prose Poem.” She was a poet herself, and her love of the power of language guided her reading, research, and teaching interests. She held teaching positions at the University of Kansas and Lewis and Clark University before settling for most of her career at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. There she taught modern and contemporary fiction and poetry to undergraduates and Master's candidates and served as English Department Chair in her last five years before retiring in 2012.
Professor Hawkins won various awards and grants, among which was a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Bulgaria, but she...
