Rhema Hokama (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Rhema Hokama

Contact Information

PDL A-311
Office Hours
TTh 2:30–3:30 (Winter Quarter 2025)

Biography

PhD, English literature, Harvard University, 2015
MA, English literature, Harvard University, 2013
MSt, English (1550–1780), University of Oxford, 2010
BA, English literature and classical studies, University of Chicago, 2009
Curriculum Vitae (187.87 KB)

Rhema Hokama is assistant professor of English literature at the University of Washington. She was previously associate professor of English at Singapore University of Technology and Design, a new university established in collaboration with MIT. She is the author of Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge in the Literary Culture of the English Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2023), which argues that Renaissance poetic responses to the English Reformation imagined capacious Protestant identities—ones that included unconventional and nonheteronormative desires within the broad tent of Reformed religion. Her academic articles have been published in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly and Modern Philology.

Since moving to Asia, Rhema’s newer research interests have centered on the development of Protestantism in the global Renaissance. She is currently working on a second book project about how early modern global exchange with Asia, the Near East, and the Atlantic world shaped European discourse about national, political, and religious inclusion in early modern England and the Dutch Republic.

Learn more about Rhema's teaching and research at rhemahokama.com.

 
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