Nigel Smith is a literature professor and scholar of the early modern world.
He joined the Princeton English Department in 1999 and currently chairs the University’s Committee for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.
[3] He is the author of several field-changing studies, considered seminal and standard works in their field: Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion 1640–1660 (Oxford UP, 1989); Literature and Revolution in England, 1640–1660 (Yale UP, 1994) ; the Longman Annotated English Poets edition of Andrew Marvell's Poems (2003, rev.
completing Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature, which expands his interest from Britain to continental Europe and some colonial contexts in the Americas and Africa.
[citation needed] Notable doctoral students of Smith's include Sarah Ross, professor at Victoria University of Wellington.