Assistant Professor
Department of English
Office - Bellarmine 8
Phone: (610) 660-3428
Email: jpowell@sju.edu
Education
B.A., Trinity University (Texas), 1997
M.St., University College, Oxford University, 1999
D.Phil., University College, Oxford University, 2003
Courses Taught
The Craft of Language
Early Shakespeare
Later Shakespeare
Writing Gender, Nation, and Self in Sixteenth-Century English Poetry
Publications
The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, II volumes, under contract with Oxford University Press.
Literature and Diplomacy in Tudor England, monograph in progress
“Sir Thomas Wyatt and Sir Francis Bryan: Plainness and Dissimulation,” (c. 8000 words) forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, eds. Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank (Oxford University Press, 2009).
“Editing Wyatts” forthcoming in a special issue of Poetica, ‘Directions in Medieval Editing,’ ed. A.S.G. Edwards
“’For Caesar’s I am’: Henrician Diplomacy and Representations of King and Country in Thomas Wyatt’s Poetry” The Sixteenth Century Journal 36:2 (Summer 2005), 415-31.
“Thomas Wyatt’s Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad” Huntington Library Quarterly 67:2 (July 2004), 261-82.
“Thomas Wyatt’s Ivy Seal” Notes and Queries 54:3 (September 2007).
“Puttenham’s Arte of English Poetry and Thomas Wyatt’s Diplomacy” Notes and Queries 52:2 (June 2005), 174-6.
“Thomas Wyatt and the Emperor’s Bad Latin” Notes and Queries 49:2 (June 2002), 207-209.
Book reviews in Notes and Queries.
General Fields of Professional Interest
English Literature of the Sixteenth CenturyShakespeare
Manuscripts, Bibliography, and Textual Editing
Tudor Diplomacy and Literature
Pedagogical style
My teaching is invariably oriented toward discussion and close reading. To that end, my classes also involve short lectures and, in lower-level courses, group work, modelling exercises, and workshops.
Other Information
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library (2007/8); Huntington-British Academy Fellow (2007); NEH Summer Stipend Recipient (2006); Received Archie Grants for Faculty Research from Wake Forest University (2005, 2006); Participant in NEH Summer Institute – “The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England” at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2005); also taught at Ithaca College and Wake Forest University