Ann Hawkins

Ann R. Hawkins currently serves as the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Success at the University of Texas at Arlington. She supports faculty achievement and recognition across the career lifespan.

Previously she served as the Assistant Provost for Graduate Research and Education in the Academic Programs and Planning division of the State University of New York System Administration. There Hawkins served as system liaison to a portfolio of 10-14 SUNY institutions, including 3 medical centers, 4 doctoral centers, 2 doctoral-specialty campuses, 5 statutory public / private partnerships, and 1 community college with graduate programs. Among other responsibilities, she offered substantive review of academic program proposals, including an assessment of fiscal soundness. She trained SUNY faculty and administrators on topics including curriculum development, curriculum mapping, student-learning outcomes, state and federal regulation, national accreditor standards, etc. She prepared briefings for the Provost, the Chancellor and Board of Trustees. She supported SUNY institutions going through periodic re-accreditation, reviewing, upon request, self-studies, compliance and monitoring reports.

Hawkins managed the system-level vetting process for the 4 ranks whereby faculty are admitted to the system-level distinguished rank. Hawkins served as the Provost’s liaison to the Distinguished Academy Executive Board.

Hawkins is deeply committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. She served on the SUNY System advisory committee to increase representation of historically underrepresented faculty across disciplines as well as on the Distinguished Academy’s BIPOC committee, developing strategies to support diverse faculty across campuses.

As a member of the SUNY Press editorial board, she worked with the SUNY Press’s Excelsior and Trade lists to ensure a diverse range of authors, subject matters, NY state regions, and identities.

Her work in graduate education included researching national, regional and local issues that affect higher education in general and doctoral institutions in particular. She managed the  Chancellor’s Distinguished Dissertation Award. She supported SUNY graduate deans across campuses. She served as system liaison to the Chief Academic Officers, participating at their bi-annual meetings, and supports shared governance throughout the SUNY system

As a scholar, Hawkins specializes in Bibliography, Book History, and Textual Studies. Her literary research focuses on British nineteenth-century literature, particularly Romanticism and poetry. A two-time winner of Texas Tech University's Arts and Sciences Outstanding Researcher award, Hawkins has published on the 19thC book trade; women writers (particularly their marketing and reception); Lord Byron; and Romantic Shakespeare. She serves as series co-editor for SUNY Press's History of Books, Publishing, and the Book Trades.
She was editor for Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, 1788-1792, a 9-volume series which collected and edited reviews written of women published in the British periodical press (Pickering & Chatto, 2011-13). That project has now expanded into a digital scholarly edition, Nineteenth-century Women Writers Reviewed (NCWWR) a digital scholarly edition (under redesign), which she supervises with Miles A. Kimball. TXMSC placed 3rd in the international DH Awards, for "Best DH Project for Public Audiences."

She has edited the well-received collection on pedagogy, Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History (2005) as well as co-edited the essay collections Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth-century (2013) and Playing Games in 19thC Britain and America (2021).

Her most recent work includes _Playing Games in 19thC Britain and the US_ and the _Routledge Companion to 19th Romantic Women Writers_.

She publishes award-winning historical romance under the pen name Rachael Miles.