Vincent Gillespie, FBA, FSA, FRHistS FEA (born February 11, 1954) is Emeritus J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford.
He is the author of Looking in Holy Books, and the forthcoming A Short History of Medieval English Mysticism.
[3] He is the co-editor, with Kantik Ghosh, of After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England, with Susan Powell of A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558, with Samuel Fanous of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism, and with Anne Hudson of Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century.
After undergraduate and graduate study at Keble College, Oxford, he lectured at the University of Reading from 1977 to 1980.
He was a tutorial fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, from 1980 to 2004, and moved to a professorial fellowship of Lady Margaret Hall in 2004 on his election as the third Tolkien Professor (in succession to Douglas Gray and Paul Strohm).