Dr. Julie E. Hudson
Professor of English
Dr. Julie E. Hudson received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin after spending her first year at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She received her M. A. in 1993 and Ph.D. in 1999 in English from the University of Texas. Her recent publications include “What Purpose Education? Anna Julia Cooper’s and Booker T. Washington’s Differing Views on Education” in Freedom Schools: A Journal of Democracy and Community (2024)) and “Education, Art, Politics: The Roots of the El Paso African American Community’s Commitment to Social Justice” Freedom Schools: A Journal of Democracy and Community (2025). Her book-in-progress is titled Leading the Charge: African American Writers from the 18th Century through the 20th Century.
Dr. Hudson is Faculty Advisor for Sigma Tau Delta Eta Tau Chapter and Alpha Kappa Mu Kappa Xi Chapter at Huston-Tillotson University. Sigma Tau Delta is the national English Honor Society dedicated to fostering literacy in all aspects of the English language, literature and writing. Alpha Kappa Mu promotes high scholarship and encourages sincere and zealous endeavors in all fields of knowledge and service. Dr. Hudson is the planning stages of creating the Mary E. Branch Symposium at the University in honor of Miss Branch, president of Tillotson College from July 1930 until July 1944.
Among Dr. Hudson’s campus and community activities is the annual HTU Annual Book Club. Along with the English Area, she sponsors the annual campus Book Club featuring both non-fiction and fiction. Past selections have included Nikole Hannah-Jones’ The 1619 Project, Colson Whitehad’s The Nickel Boys, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings, and Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement edited by Cynthia Stokes Brown.
