Dr. Bridget Vincent 

PhD

literature

Cambridge University

United Kingdom

Arts and Humanities

Bridget Vincent completed a PhD at Cambridge University as a General Sir John Monash Scholar and a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. This was followed by a period as a Postdoctoral Affiliate at Clare Hall, Cambridge, funded by an Endeavour Research Fellowship. Before ANU, she taught on modern and contemporary literature at the Universities of Cambridge and Nottingham. She has a longstanding interest in the public role of the humanities, and while at the University of Melbourne created a program designed to foster conversations in young people about the civic importance of critical thinking. She has also published literary journalism and op-eds in The Guardian, The Times Higher Education, The Age, Cordite and The Australian Book Review. She is currently undertaking a two-year Research Fellowship at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark where her research focuses on the corpus of environmental fiction and poetry depicting modern ruins. This project examines urban ruins in contemporary writing, showing that literary depictions of ruins can form an important part of a text’s ecological work.