Hudson Vincent
Assistant Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., M.A. Harvard University
- B.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Areas of Expertise
- Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Carceral Studies
- Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
- History of Science
Background
Robert Hudson Vincent is an Assistant Professor of English at Ä¢¹½TV, where he teaches courses in early British literature and early American literature. He is the author of The English Baroque in Early Modern Literature (2025), and he has published over a dozen peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, and interviews.
Before joining the faculty at Ä¢¹½TV, he taught at Harvard University and in prisons across Massachusetts. He is the recipient of Harvard’s Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Harvard’s Distinction in Teaching Award, and Ä¢¹½TV’s Award for Exceptional Teaching by Visiting Faculty.
His research and teaching have been supported by a Mellon Fellowship in English Paleography at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Villa I Tatti Graduate Fellowship for Renaissance Studies, a Derek Bok Center Pedagogy Fellowship, and the Bowdoin Prize for Best Graduate Essay in the English Language at Harvard University.
He is working on two new books: one on correctional literature in colonial America and another on baroque science.
He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University (2020) and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013), where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.