Hudson Vincent

Hudson Vincent teaches writing seminars at Harvard College. His book manuscript, The English Baroque: The Logic of Excess, presents the first large-scale history of English baroque literature and demonstrates how the baroque offered early modern authors a way to think about excess. Rather than a term of periodization, The English Baroque argues that the baroque is best defined as a logic of excess—a logic for making sense of the excesses of the world. Hudson is also at work on a second book on the early modern prison.

ARTICLES

• "The Excesses of Romance: Shakespeare's Pericles and the Baroque," Shakespeare International Yearbook (Special Issue: Pericles, Prince of Tyre) (forthcoming)

• “Proteus and the Moles: Settler Colonial Relations in Thomas Morton's May Day Poem,” Early American Literature 56.2 (2021): 373-94

• “Baroco: The Logic of English Baroque Poetics,” Modern Language Quarterly 80.3 (2019): 233-59

• “Baroque Optics and Luis de Góngora’s Polifemo,” Modern Language Notes 133.2 (2018): 224-41

• “Space for Cultural Studies: Conversations with the Centre,” Cultural Studies (Special Issue: Contributions to a History of CCCS) 27.5 (2013): 666-86

BOOK REVIEWS

• “Review of Senses of Style: Poetry Before Interpretation by Jeff Dolven,” Critical Inquiry 45.4 (2019): 1002-03

• “Review of Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England by Kimberly Johnson,” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 16.4 (2016): 144-48

EDITORIAL WORK

• Co-editor with Elizabeth Tavares, John Ward Diaries, vol. 10 (1663-1665), selections, V.a.293, Folger Shakespeare Libray, Folgerpedia

• Co-editor with Lawrence Grossberg, Cultural Studies (Special Issue: Contributions to a History of CCCS) 27.5 (2013)

PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS (SELECTED)

• “Stuart Hall Interview – 2 June 2011,” Cultural Studies (Special Issue: Contributions to a History of CCCS) 27.5 (2013): 757-77

• “Paul Gilroy Interview – 2 June 2011,” Cultural Studies (Special Issue: Contributions to a History of CCCS) 27.5 (2013): 744-56

• “John Clarke Interview – 31 May 2011,” Cultural Studies (Special Issue: Contributions to a History of CCCS) 27.5 (2013): 729-43

• “David Morley Interview – 3 June 2011,” Cultural Studies (Special Issue: Contributions to a History of CCCS) 27.5 (2013): 833-45

• "Richard Johnson Interview – 1 June 2011," Cultural Studies (Special Issue: Contributions to a History of CCCS) 27.5 (2013): 800-14

• "Gregor McLennan Interview – 28 May, 2011" Cultural Studies (Special Issue: Contributions to a History of CCCS) 27.5 (2013): 815-27

• "Lucy Bland Interview – 23 May, 2011" Cultural Studies (Special Issue: Contributions to a History of CCCS) 27.5 (2013): 687-98

INVITED TALKS & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)

• "Shakespeare's Pericles and Baroque Romance" | Shakespeare Association of America Conference | April 2020

• “Subverting the Settler: Thomas Morton and the Transatlantic Baroque” | Department of English, Smith College | April 2019

• “Baroco: The Logic of Baroque Style” | The Renaissance Society of America Conference, Toronto | March 2019

• “The Logical and Rhetorical Foundations of English Baroque Poetics” | American Comparative Literature Association Conference, UCLA | April 2018

• “The Baroque Image of God: Optics of Heterogeneity in Góngora's El Polifemo" | American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Utrecht | June 2017

• “The Ligaments of Love; or, Three Reformations of the English Body Politic, 1603-1653” | Crossroads Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst | October 2016

• “Reading John Davenport: Scripture and Utopia in America” | American Literature in the World Conference, Yale University | April 2015

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS (SELECTED)

• Harvard Certificate of Teaching Excellence, "Are Prisons Obsolete?" (Harvard University) | 2021

• Harvard Certificate of Teaching Excellence, "Are Prisons Obsolete?" (Harvard University) | 2020

• Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essay in English Language (Harvard University) | 2020

• Harvard Distinction in Teaching Award, "Texts in Transition" (Harvard University) | 2020

• Mellon Fellowship in English Paleography (Folger Shakespeare Library) | 2019

• Bok Center Pedagogy Fellowship (Harvard University) | 2019-2020

• The Susan Anthony Potter Essay Prize (Harvard University) | 2018

• Villa I Tatti Graduate Fellowship (Florence, Italy) | 2017

• Harvard Distinction in Teaching Award, "Shakespeare, the Later Plays" (Harvard University) | 2017

• Harvard Distinction in Teaching Award, "Milton's Paradise Lost" (Harvard University) | 2016

• The Luisa Vidal de Villasante Essay Prize (Harvard University) | 2016

• The Morehead-Cain Scholarship (UNC-Chapel Hill) | 2009-2013

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (SELECTED)

Preceptor, Harvard College Writing Program

• Expos 20: "Are Prisons Obsolete?" | Primary Instructor

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

• Comp Lit 343: “Professing Literature” | Professor Verena Conley
• Gen Ed 1034: “Texts in Transition” | Professors Ann Blair and Leah Whittington
• AI 56: “Shakespeare, the Later Plays” | Professor Marjorie Garber
• English 131p: “Milton’s Paradise Lost” | Professor Gordon Teskey

Junior Tutorial Instructor, Harvard University

• Comp Lit 98AB: “On Ekphrasis: Art History and the Classics” | Primary Instructor
• Comp Lit 98AB: “Translation Studies: Greek Lyric to Hollywood Cinema” | Primary Instructor
• Comp Lit 98 AB: “Migrant Literature and Political Theory” | Primary Instructor

Teaching Assistant, Boston University Prison Education Program (MCI-Norfolk)

• English 201: “English Composition II” | Professor Ben Tanaka
• English 104: “English Composition I” | Professor Ben Tanaka

ESL Teacher, Lycée Diderot de l’Académie de Reims

• Beginning to Advanced Courses in English | Primary Instructor