Dr. Renee Hudson
Assistant Professor
English, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Office Location: Smith Hall 04
Email: rhudson@chapman.edu
- Education:
- Stanford University, Bachelor of Arts
University of California, Los Angeles, Master of Arts
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.
Biography
Renee Hudson is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Center for Undergraduate
Excellence at Chapman University. She specializes in hemispheric studies, multiethnic
literature, speculative fiction, genre studies, and histories of revolution and resistance.
She has published in Modern Fiction Studies, CR: The New Centennial Review, The Cambridge Companion on Race and Literature, and Latinx Literature in Transition Vol. 2, also with Cambridge. She edited a special issue of Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures,
Arts, and Cultures on Latinx YA and Children’s literature as well as a cluster on
Latinx speculative fiction for ASAP/J. Her first book project, titled Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas (Fordham University Press) examines how contemporary Latinx literature illustrates
the hemispheric convergence of Latin American independence movements and the long
history of US occupations and interventions. She is currently developing a second
project on Latinx girlhood.
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- “Latinx Futurity in Young Adult and Children’s Literature,” Chiricú Journal 9.1 (Fall 2024).
- “Writing Against Cruelty: On the Possibilities of Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature,” Chiricú Journal 9.1 (Fall 2024): 3-11.
- “Brown Modernism from María Cristina Mena to Gloria Anzaldúa,” Latinx Literary Modernities, 1898-1992 (Latinx Literature in Transition Vol. 2), eds. Marissa López and John Alba Cutler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. March 2025.