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 Davidson College, 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 Davidson, 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 Davidson’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.