Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Humanities

Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1978

Email: ahh1@psu.edu

Research Interests

• Literature and Medicine
• Literature and Medical Ethics
• The Patient's Experience of Illness
• Pathography
• Pediatric HIV
• Tacit Knowledge

Teaching

The Pen and the Scalpel: Reading and Writing About Medicine

Selected Publications

• Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1993; revised edition, 1999). 
• Confronting Mortality: The Iliad’s Androktasiai, Literature and Medicine 17, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 181-96.
• Teaching Literature and Medicine (with Marilyn McIntyre). MLA Publications, 1999. 
• Ethical Tragedy and Sophocles' Philoctetes, Classical World 92, no. 4 (March/April 1999): 337-57.
• A Small Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000. 
• Literature and Medical Ethics, and 'Epiphanic Knowledge. The Journal of Clinical Ethics 5, no. 4 (1994): 283-290.

Books and Editions

1. Archetypes of Conversion: The Autobiographies of Augustine, Bunyan, and Merton (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1985).
2. Coeditor (with Joanne Trautmann Banks), Literature and Medicine 11, no. 1 (Spring 1992): "Literary Aspects of the Medical Case History." 
3. Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1993, second edition, 1999).
4. Coeditor (with James O. Ballard), Time To Go: Plays and Commentary about End-of- Life Issues (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).
5. Coeditor (with K. Danner Clouser), issue on "Literature and Medical Ethics," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 21, no. 3 (June 1996).
6. Teaching Literature and Medicine. Eds. Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and Marilyn Chandler McEntyre. New York: MLA Publications, 1999. 
7. A Small, Good Thing:  Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them (New York:  W.W. Norton and Co., 2000).
8. Editor, Literature and Medicine 21, no. 1 (Spring 2002): "Literature, Medicine, and Children."

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

1. "The Double Conversion in Bunyan's Grace Abounding",  Philological Quarterly 61, no. 3 (1982), 259-76, 1960-1987 (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1988).
2. "Two Pathographies: A Study in Illness and Literature,"  The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 9, no. 3 (August 1984), 231-52
3. "A.R. Luria and the Art of Clinical Biography",  Literature and Medicine 5 (1986),1-15
4. "A Change of Heart: The Paradigm of Regeneration in Medical and Religious Narrative,"  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 33, no. 4 (summer 1990), 547-59
5. "Constructing Death: Three Pathographies about Dying,"  Omega 22, no. 4 (1991),299-315
6. "Restoring the Patient's Voice: The Case of Gilda Radner,"  Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 65, no. 4 (July/August, 1992), 173-81.
7. "Charting Dante: The Inferno and Medical Education,"  Literature and Medicine 11, no 2 (Fall 1992): 200-215
8. "Yvain's Madness,"  Philological Quarterly 71, no. 4 (Fall 1992): 377-97
9. "Oliver Sacks's Awakenings: Reshaping Clinical Discourse,"  Configurations 1, no. 2 (May 1993): 229-245
10. "Reforming the Biomedical Model: Finding a Successor Model or Going Beyond Paradigms?" Advances 10, no. 1(Winter 1994): 55-56
11. "The Myth of Cure and the Process of Accommodation: Reconsidering Awakenings," Medical Humanities Review (Spring 1994): 9-21
12. "Literature, Medical Ethics, and 'Epiphanic Knowledge'," The Journal of Clinical Ethics, no. 4 (1994): 283-290
13. "Literature and Medicine: Contributions to Clinical Practice," with Rita Charon et al., Annals of Internal Medicine 122 (1995): 599-606
14. "Literature, Philosophy, and Medical Ethics: Let the Dialogue Go On,"  Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 21, no. 3 (June 1996): 341-354
15. "Confronting Mortality: The Iliad’s Androktasiai",  Literature and Medicine 17, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 181-96.
16. With Karen M. Kaplan et al., "Evaluating Students on an Interdisciplinary Primary Care Clerkship at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine," Academic Medicine, 74, no. 1, Supplement (January 1999): S67-69.
17. "Ethical Tragedy and Sophocles' Philoctetes," Classical World 92, no. 4 (March/April 1999): 337-57.
18. "Pathography; Patient Narratives about Illness," Western Journal of Medicine 717 (1999): 127-29.
19. With Jack Coulehan, "Keeping Faith: Ethics and the Physician Writer," Annals of Internal Medicine 189, no. 4 (19 August 2003): 307-11.

Book Chapters

1. "Medical Ethics and the Epiphanic Dimension of Narrative, in Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics. Ed. Hilde Lindemann Nelson. New York: Routledge, 1997, pp. 150-170.
2. "Time," in Word Tastings, ed. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Review Publications, 1998, pp. 57-64.
3. "Pathography and Enabling Myths: The Process of Healing," Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice, ed. Charles Anderson and Marian MacCurdy. Urbana, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English (Refiguring English Studies Series), 1998, pp. 222-45.
4. "Teaching Literature and Medicine: A Retrospective and a Rationale," Teaching Literature and Medicine. Eds. Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and Marilyn Chandler McEntyre. New York:  MLA Publications, 2000, pp. 1-25.
5. "The Idea of Character" in The Practice of Narrative Ethics. Eds. R. Charon and Montello. New York: Routledge, 2002. pp. 69-76.

Other

Co-Director (with Susan Squier), NEH Institute, "Medicine, Literature and Culture." Hershey, Pennsylvania, Summer, 2002.

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