Jason Powell, D.Phil

• D.Phil., University College, Oxford University, 2003
• M.St., University College, Oxford University, 1999
• B.A., Trinity University (Texas), 1997

• Saint Joseph’s University, August 2007-Present
  • Professor, 2018-Present
  • Associate Professor, 2014-2018
  • Director, Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2017-
  • Co-Director, Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2011-2015
  • Assistant Professor, 2007-2014
• Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, 2004-2007
• Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
  • Assistant Professor (non tenure-track), 2003-2004
• University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Lecturer, Lincoln College, Oxford, 2002-2003
  • Lecturer, Mansfield College, 2002
• Nagaoka Board of Education, Japan
  • Assistant English Teacher (Japan Exchange and Teaching Program), 1997-1998

Books

• The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Volume 1: Prose (Oxford University Press, 2016).
  • Reviewed in Journal of the Northern Renaissance; Times Literary Supplement; Renaissance Quarterly; Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; Common Knowledge; Speculum
• The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Volume 2: Poetry, in progress and under contract with Oxford University Press.
• The Complete Poems of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, under contract with Oxford University Press.
• Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare, co-edited with William T. Rossiter (Ashgate, 2013).

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Scribal Publication and Diplomacy in Print: The Complete Ambassador (1655) and its Manuscript Predecessors" forthcoming in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:3 (2020).
• “Misreading Wyatt’s Scribes: Five Examples” New Ways of Looking at Old Texts VI: Papers of the Renaissance English Texts Society, eds. Arthur Marotti and Steven W. May (ACMRS: forthcoming, 2020).
• "Secret Writing or a Technology of Discretion? Dry Point in Tudor Books and Manuscripts" Review of English Studies 70:293 (2019), 37-53.
• “The Network Behind ‘Tottel’s’ Miscellany,” English Literary Renaissance 46:2 (2016), 193-224.
• “Fathers, Sons and Surrogates: Fatherly Advice in Hamlet” in Medieval into Renaissance: Essays in Honour of Helen Cooper, eds. Matthew Woodcock and Andrew King (D.S. Brewer, 2016), 163-86.
• “Introduction” (with William T. Rossiter) in Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare, eds. Powell and Rossiter (Ashgate, 2013), 1-14.
• “‘Astrophil the Orator: Diplomacy and Diplomats in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella’” in Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare, eds. Powell and Rossiter (Ashgate, 2013), 171-184.
• “Scholars, Servants, Spies: William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad” in Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture, eds. Robin Adams and Rosanna Cox (Palgrave, January 2011), 30-45.
• “Line Omission in Prose Manuscripts, 1500-1700” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 104:4 (December 2010), 433-61.
• “Marginalia, Authorship and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt’s Verse” English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 15 (2009), ed. A.S.G. Edwards, 1-40.
• “Editing Wyatts: Reassessing the Textual State of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Poetry” Poetica, special issue, “Directions in Medieval Editing” 71 (2009), eds. A.S.G. Edwards and Takako Kato, 93-104.
• “Thomas Wyatt and Francis Bryan: Plainness and Dissimulation” in The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature, 1485-1603 (Oxford, 2009), eds. Cathy Shrank and Mike Pincombe, 187-202.
• “’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.

Notes and Short Essays

• “Mary Shelton” in Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
• “Sir Francis Bryan” in Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature (Wiley- Blackwell, 2012).
• “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

• Notes and Queries, Review of English Studies, SHARP News, Renaissance Quarterly and Reformation.

Long-Term Fellowships

• Fellowships (2), National Endowment for the Humanities (academic year), 2008-9; 2016-17
• Long-Term Fellowship (academic year), Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015-16 (declined)
• Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow, University of Texas, Austin (academic year), 2009-10

Short-Term Fellowships and Grants

• Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellowship, Renaissance Society of America, 2019
• Short-Term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015-16
• Summer Stipends (2), National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006 & 2014
• Franklin Grants (2), American Philosophical Society, 2009 & 2014
• Summer Grants (3), Saint Joseph’s University, 2009, 2013, 2017
• Morris Grants (2), Saint Joseph’s University, 2012, 2018
• Barry Bloomfield Award, Bibliographical Society (UK), 2012
• Faculty Merit Award for Research, Saint Joseph’s University, 2011
• Pantzer New Scholar, Bibliographical Society of America, 2010
• British Academy/Newberry Library Fellowship (two months), 2009-2010
• Pforzheimer Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, 2008-9
• W.M. Keck Foundation Short-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2007-8
• British Academy/Huntington Fellowship (short term), 2007
• Archie Grants for Faculty Development, Wake Forest University, 2005 & 2006
• Participant, NEH Summer Institute, “The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England,” Director Steven W. May, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005