Research

Dr. Hawthorn is a cultural historian and specialist in Middle Eastern studies whose research interests include:

• The cultural history of the senses
• Religious history
• Mesopotamian literature
  • Literary criticism and New Historicism
  • Literary representations of religious ideology
• Sumerian and Akkadian grammar and lexicology
• Middle Eastern dance
  • Lexicology and movement nomenclature
  • Sensory aspects of dance
• Corpus-based lexical analysis
• Digital methodologies
• Public humanities and community engagement