Hannah Hudson

Hannah Hudson, PhD, is Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston, where she researches and teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature with a focus on Romantic-era fiction, Gothic studies, women writers, and the history of print and periodical culture.

Education

• PhD, Stanford University
• MA, Stanford University
• MPhil, University of Cambridge
• AB, Princeton University

Research Interests

Professor Hudson’s scholarship centers on the intersections of literature, commerce, and gender during the Romantic period. Her work interrogates how popular fiction—especially the vast output of the Minerva Press—shaped, and was shaped by, the burgeoning print marketplace. She examines gothic and sentimental genres, intertextual networks, and the role of magazines in constructing imperial knowledge.

Recent Publications & Trends

Across her recent articles and her 2023 monograph Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era, Hudson traces how excess—of production, of emotion, of genre—became a defining feature of Romantic fiction. Her studies reveal how authors, reviewers, and readers negotiated the explosion of print and the contested hierarchies of literary value.

Awards & Honors

• Winner, Marilyn Gaull Book Award, Wordsworth-Coleridge Society (for Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era)

Current & Future Projects

Hudson is presently writing Romantic Magazines and Imperial Knowledge, a study of miscellaneous magazines and their role in forming imperial knowledge around 1800. She continues to publish articles on periodical portrayals of revolution and on Eliza Haywood’s legacy while supervising courses ranging from British Literature surveys to honors seminars on Jane Austen and fantasy fiction.

Contact & Office

73 Tremont St., Room 8042, Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617-573-8277
Email: hhudson@suffolk.edu