Dawes teaches American literature. His latest book, That the World May Know -
Bearing Witness to Atrocity, tells the powerful and moving story of the successes and
failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from
fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost
of confronting inhumanity in our day.
An earlier book, The Language of War, explores U.S. literature and culture from the Civil
War through World War II, examining how the violence of war affects literary, legal and
philosophical representations and how those representations affect violence.
Dawes has also published articles on a variety of subjects including human rights law,
literature and medical studies, Shakespeare, gender and sexuality.
EDUCATION: B.A., University of Pennsylvania M.Phil, University of Cambridge, Kings
College, England M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Jr. Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard
University
Dawes has been teaching at Macalester since 2001.
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