Bridget Vincent

Bridget Vincent completed her PhD at Cambridge University as a General Sir John Monash Scholar and then held a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and an Endeavour Research Fellowship. She is now an Assistant Professor in Modern Poetry and Poetics at the University of Nottingham and was recently awarded a British Academy Rising Star award for a project on literature and attention. She writes on poetry and ethics, with particular attention to the writings of Geoffrey Hill, Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, and Judith Wright. Her first book, Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill, is coming out with Oxford University Press in 2021. She also writes creative nonfiction and opinion pieces, and has published these in The Guardian, the Times Higher Education and the Age.